Books & Authors : Literary Beers

THose are pretty cool. Just last night the Bang and I were pipe dreaming about owning a brewery, and I had said I'd name all the beers after books/authors, I came up with Hemingway Stout and Mary Had a Little Lambic... haha.

All the better! We were also giggling over the letter Hemingway wrote that said the title of his book was "The Sun Also Rises-- Like Your Cock If You Have One!" but I couldn't work that into a beer name.

I'd like to open a vineyard/restaurant combo that is popular around here. and name my wines things drunks really want. 

"What would you like?"

"My Dignity." 

I'd also have Hope, Pride, Self Respect, My Dreams, the Only Woman I Ever Loved, and the Only Man I Ever Loved.

@Jacks - Have you tried any of those combo places? I don't know if they are as popular up towards Louisville.

Ah, Dwayne. You always give me a laugh. 

Like JY, I tend not to drink when I read, because it makes me want to go out and dance, listen to bands, take drugs, drink to excess, make inappropriate decisions etc. A cup of tea is usually my poison with a book!

I love drinking and reading. Drinking alone gets a bad rap but I personally find that I am always drinking alone, whether I do it in public, at a bar, or private, in my apartment.

I love a good pilsner, but I am pretty jaded as to what constitutes a good pilsner. Presidente has spoiled me, those Dominican bastards.

I'd have to add the vintage 'reasonable internet posts'.

Three floyds is an awesome brewery. You're a lucky person if you can get their beers where you are (only around Chicago).

Craft breweries put a lot into their beer, making most of it more than "just beer". Someone who really enjoys a good, widely marketed American lager isn't going to enjoy craft beers and vice verse (obviously there are exceptions). The other side of it is, most craft brewers start out as home brewers and move up to micro brewing, so they get really into the label design and the ideas that inspire their beer, so that's why you'll find breweries and beers with names related to totally non beer related topics, and fun beer descriptions. For these guys it's about having fun and creating something they love.

i mean, I had dinner last night at a gourmet burger joint with a heavy metal theme, and while the burgers were, in my opinion, ridiculously good, most people wouldn't do a gourmet burger joint or a metal themed restaurant, but for the people who owned this place, it was obvious that they put together things they really loved to create something unique. I think that's pretty cool.

Yeah, good point, Renee. People should do what they want. I guess I was thinking that a subgenre name might carry more potentially negative associations than, for instance, Duck-Rabbit or Six-Point. Probably over-thinking it, though. The beer is good. I bought it even though I thought it was silly. I consciously overruled my distaste for their branding.

I always forget there are still places you can smoke and eat in the US. This place did insane burgers, like mine had brie and a bourbon apple compote on it. We just randomly found it because we pulled off the freeway into an area that was like a Little Vietnam, and we were trying to find a place to eat my three year old would tolerate, so I found them on the GPS, and when we went inside it was awesome (The 3 year old had a plain cheeseburger).

But that Kuma's Corner sounds cool, too. I didn't know heavy metal burger joints were a "thing".

I had this last weekend (Rogue's Shakespeare Stout) and it made me think of this thread. It was so good. Lately I've been really getting into stouts. My favorite is Dragon Milk. It's a bourbon barrel stout. So good.

But when it comes to drinking and reading, I either have a Manhattan or a lighter beer (but not much lighter) Short's Brewery's Belle Aire Brown (which is also probably my favorite any time beer).

Had this one over the weekend. It's brewed in Holland, MI. At first I wasn't sure if I liked it. But it grew on me. I'll be picking it up again.

First off, Sarah, yes: darker = better. I'm a stout fan all the way, too.

Second, some of you may know that I have a book themed YouTube channel. Fewer of you know that I also maintain a Tumblr page called Books Go Where? which catalogs various references to books found in places where books don't normally go (cartoons, sitcoms, and yes, beer). Some of you may also know that I love beer. Sometimes, these various interests and mediums converge.

(stay with me, I have a point)

I'm kicking around some ideas for an upcoming video. I want to showcase some book inspired beers (beer names, more appropriately). I'm wondering the best way to do it. So far, I'm thinking:

1. Beer vs. Book: I (along with a friend, probably; two people are often more fun to watch than one) read a few lines from a book while drinking its inspired book. Then, we dicuss, humorously. I wouldn't anticipate actual winners, as books and beer are completely different, but it's a fun excuse to drink and talk books.

2. Bukowski or Brewski (or some other author): I read a name and the other person has to guess if it's the name of a Bukowski poem or a beer. It would be similar to this Stephen King Plot or Adult Swim Show video that me and fellow Lit Reactorite Gordon Highland made).

3. Book and Beer Pairings: take the pompous wine snobbery of food and wine pairings to the world of books and beer. Yeah, it's been done, but again, it's a good excuse to drink and talk books.

Thoughts? Ideas?

That would more be the name of wine they buy for ladies.

Yeah, that sounds like it would work.

I don't think that is something that drunks look for, just something they find.

@justforwords, honestly, not for a while. I watched about everything on the channel back when Aqua Teen Hunger Force first started. I haven't seen much in about 10 years.

I'm actually a really big dark brew person, the more bitter the better.