Our next beer will be called…
Fu Manbrew! Congratulations to Philip M for submitting the winning name! Fu Manbrew won with 42% of the total vote. Handlebar was a close second with 37% of the vote. And apparently only a minority of you guys wanted to order a Walrus at the bar. Thanks to everyone who voted, contributed, and shared. This was a lot of fun. But it’s not quite over! One of the challenges of the Fu Man Brew name is making the graphic look good on our labels. We’ve got three potential options, and we’d love it if you voted on your favorite. Vote in the poll below.
Loading ...Now begins the process of ordering tap handles, getting label approval, and trademarking names. It’s a fun process (not really). We’re hoping to get everything buttoned up, including one final test batch, in the next 2 months, so we’ll see how quickly we can launch this new mustachio’d beer!
Thanks to Philip M. for all of his creativity, and thanks to Scoutmob for indulging us in this new experiment in crowdsourcing our beer name. I’m pretty sure we shattered Scoutmob’s record for Facebook comments.
Monday Night crowdsourced beer naming contest in the final round!
We’re partnering with mustache-lovers Scoutmob to crowdsource the name our next beer, a Belgian wit brewed with a hint of ginger. With over 100 name entries from you guys, it was tough narrowing it down to our favorites. But after a few beers, we were able to struggle through it. The finalists?
- Fu Manbrew (submitted by Philip M.)
- Handlebar Wit (submitted by Greg L.)
- Walrus Wit (submitted by Larry S.)
Help name our next beer!
We’ve teamed up with Scoutmob to name our next beer, a 4.5% Belgian wit brewed with just a hint of ginger. If you’d like to submit a name idea, please follow the link and DO IT! We’ll be choosing a round of finalists, based on our proprietary set of internal criteria, which we will share openly with you here:
- Must be mustache-themed
- Must be awesome
- Must not be the name of another beer
Finally. A plastic mustache for my beer bottle.
Beerstache, your time is now. Our “friend” Peter sent us a link to this amazing product. And they’re only $2 apiece! If only they were made of real hair, and not plastic. Guaranteed to make any beer more creepy and/or more hipster.
Sidenote: It’s Movember.
These men are enjoying themselves immensely
Ah, there is nothing finer.
Reclining with other mustachio’d cosmopolitan gentlemen in the ferns. Clasping pipes and cold beers from far-away lands. Discussing appropriate neckwear, funny hats, and womenfolk.
This is the life we aspire to.
Now leave us be.
Image source: Powerhouse Museum Collection
The most disgusting mustache in the world
Better late than never. Jeff, who was noticeably absent when I actually needed his mustache, grew a mustache for me now that my ulcers are pretty much healed. First, a brief update:
For those who didn’t know, I was pretty sick for a couple months this summer. Turns out it was ulcers. We started a campaign, Mustaches for Ulcers, which gained some press from the prestigious American Mustache Institute. Beer bloggers turned out in spades. Well, one or two of them turned out in spades. Soon all eight of my ulcers were sponsored and the real healing could begin. I’ve been doing much better and have actually been drinking beer again, though I’m still trying to take it easy until I get the “all clear” from the doctors.
And now, I present to you the ugliest mustache ever seen on man or woman (yes, that includes your mom):
Jeff grew this doozy of a mustache while hanging out in the wilds of Montana. A bear tried to mate with him.
Wedding Beer
As Jonathan has already ranted on my “unsanctioned” beer I figured I might as well share the full story. My younger sister Martha was getting married this past weekend and since her husband-to-be was the creator of the official MNB tap I figured it only appropriate we do a custom beer to celebrate the occasion.
The beer we settled on was a modified version of our yet-named Belgian Wit. I actually added back the coriander and fresh orange zest from the original Weiss Guy recipe. For an added twist I added some fresh ginger at the end of the boil (inspired by the Allagash Fluxus I had in Portland last month). The result was a spectacular beer that won the hearts and taste buds of all who attended (that were legally of age and tasted it). Even my grandmother who hates beer partook in quite a few herself.
We dubbed it the Equally Yoked Heifer-Weizen. The quote is especially dynamite on this one too. If you can’t make it out it reads:
Who was the first guy that looked at a cow and said “I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?”
Yes. Something we’ve all wondered at one time or another I’m sure.