31 Beers Brand Name Meanings

Beers Brand Name Meanings

The word ale comes from Old English ealu (plural ealoþ), in turn from Proto-Germanic *alu (plural *aluþ), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European base *h₂elut-, which holds connotations of "sorcery, magic, possession, intoxication". The word beer comes from Old English bēor, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, probably from Proto-Indo-European *beusóm, originally "brewer's yeast, beer dregs", although other theories have been provided connecting the word with Old English bēow, "barley", or Latin bibere, "to drink". On the currency of two words for the same thing in the Germanic languages, the 12th-century Old Icelandic poem Alvíssmál says, "Ale it is called among men, but among the gods, beer."

Corona Beer

Corona is the name of a beer. The Corona brand is one of the top-selling beers worldwide. It is produced by Cerveceria Modelo in Mexico.
Corona is an aura of plasma that surrounds the sun and other stars. The sun's corona is normally visible only during a total solar eclipse, when it is seen as an irregularly shaped pearly glow surrounding the darkened disc of the moon. In literal words, Corona is a crown or crown-like structure.

Bira Beer

The brand has a fun, unorthodox, slightly quirky imagery that can resonate with the young Indian. It’s a handcrafted beer that is imagined in India – so meant to be a name that is fun, linguistically Indian and meant to evoke beer. Bira means ‘brother’ in north India and variants of this in other parts of the county. Our mascot is a monkey because most of us have a monkey inside us. Added 91 as it is the country code of India and it makes it sound distinctive.
Biru is the generic name for beer in Japan. Previously the name suggested for Bira 91 was Biru but after a registration challenge in Japan we changed it to Bira 91.

Kings beer

Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland.

Tsingtao Beer

Tsingtao Brewery Co., Ltd. (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Qīngdǎo píjiǔchǎng; German: Germania-Brauerei) is China's second largest brewery. It was founded in 1903 by German settlers and now claims about 15% of domestic market share. The beer is produced in Qingdao in Shandong province (and more recently in other breweries owned by the company as well), and it gets its name from the old École française d'Extrême-Orient transliteration of the city's name. The beer's present-day logo displays an image of Zhan Qiao, a famous pier on Qingdao's southern shore

Carlsberg Beer

Carlsberg’s roots are planted firmly in Denmark, where the brand was founded in 1847. J.C. Jacobsen created the brand, and named after his son – Carl. Brewing was in their blood, Jacobsen’s father was one until he passed away, leaving his son to take over the task. He wasn’t content with merely brewing though, and sought to improve the quality of beer.

Guinness Beer

Arthur Guinness is a memorable name, as it’s evoked annually in celebration of the man who created this most famous stout. Quite amazing for a man who started brewing ales in 1759. This is an Irish brand with humble beginnings in Dublin, to be precise. Also, Guinness is brewed in 50 countries today.

Tiger Beer

Tiger is Singapore’s pride, as the first local brewed beer. It all started in 1932, and today it’s brewed in 11 countries and enjoyed in over 75 countries all over the world. Brewing is meticulous, taking over 500 hours and using the finest ingredients from Australia and Europe.

Hoegaarden Beer

The name Hoegaarden actually refers to a place in Belgium, where this brewery originated. Hoegaarden’s story began in 1445. Today, they have several different types of beer, including Rosé and Citron, to add to their already impressive roster. It is a beer with a sweet and sour taste, and a slight bitterness.

Asahi Beer

We’re really going around the world here for our beers, and this time it’s to gorgeous Tokyo. They started off as the Osaka Beer Company, founded in 1899. Fun fact, “Asahi” means rising sun, and is meant to symbolize national pride, since Japan is known as “The Land of the Rising Sun”.

Kilkenny Beer

This beer is cream ale, which hails from the city of Kilkenny itself – in Ireland. Though not much is stated on its origins, it is said that it dates back to the 14th century. Nowadays, it’s brewed elsewhere in Dublin and seems to be quite popular in Australia and New Zealand. It’s also a favourite among Canadians; particularly after Canadian celebrities were seen drinking the beverage.

Budweiser Beer

Today, Anheuser-Busch In Bev is the largest brewery in the world, but it commenced with humble beginnings. Adolphus Busch and his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser, ran the St. Louis brewery in the mid-1800s. Busch wanted to develop a light lager to contrast the rampant American dark beers. His friend Carl Conrad, a wine and liquor importer, had travelled to Budweis in what is now the Czech Republic and had tasted an incredible beer in a monastery there. Conrad took the idea back to St. Louis, and he and Busch decided on the name "Budweiser." In 1982, Bud Light (which is currently the best-selling beer in America) was introduced to the market.

Miller Light Beer

We have a biochemist to thank for the advent of light beer. In 1967, Joseph L. Owades worked for Rheingold Brewery and discovered an enzyme that digested all of the starch, resulting in a beer label called Gablinger’s Diet Beer. Meister Brau of Chicago first manufactured the light beer until Miller Brewing bought Gablinger’s. In 1975 they changed the name to Miller Lite, and it became the first nationally distributed reduced-calorie beer.

Stella Artois Beer

In 1708, Sébastien Artois became head brewer at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, a brewery established in 1366. Artois purchased the brewery in 1717 and renamed it Brouwerij Artois.
In 1926, Brouwerij Artois launched Stella as a Christmas beer, named after the Christmas star.

Sol Beer

Sol was introduced in the 1890s as El Sol. The name came from a ray of sunshine that fell on a pot while preparing the mash. After being off the market for many years, this brand was reintroduced in 1993, and is now exported to Latin America, Europe and Asia. It is a very light-coloured beer with little hops flavour, and considered to be a beer for the young people and the working class.

Tuborg Beer

The name Tuborg comes from Thuesborg ("Thue's castle"), a Copenhagen inn from the 1690s situated in the area of the brewery. This evolved and was adopted into local place names, such as Lille Tuborg and Store Tuborg. "Tuborgvej" street in Copenhagen is named after the site of the original Tuborg brewery.

Heineken Beer

On 15 February 1864, Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841–1893) convinced his wealthy mother to buy De Hooiberg (The Haystack) brewery in Amsterdam, a popular working-class brand founded in 1592. In 1873 after hiring a Dr. Elion (student of Louis Pasteur) to develop Heineken a yeast for Bavarian bottom fermentation, the HBM (Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij) was established, and the first Heineken brand beer was brewed.

Foster Beer

Foster's was created by two Irish-American brothers, William M. and Ralph R. Foster, who arrived in Melbourne from New York in 1886. The brothers began brewing Foster's Lager in November 1888. It was made available to the public from February 1889. The product was first exported in 1901, when bottles were sent to Australian combatants in the Boer War.

Cobra Beer

Cobra Beer was founded in 1989 by Karan Bilimoria, although originally intended to be named 'Panther', the name was changed to 'Cobra' when a focus group found the latter more appealing. The first shipment of Cobra was imported to the UK from the Bangalore-based Mysore Brewery in 1990, at the start of the early 1990s recession,

Samuel Adams Beer

Samuel Adams is the flagship brand of the Boston Beer Company. The brand name (often shortened to Sam Adams) was chosen in honour of Founding Father Samuel Adams. Adams inherited his father's brewery on King Street (modern day State Street). Some histories say he was a brewer, while others describe him as a maltster. The Samuel Adams brewery is located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, where visitors can take a tour, and shop beers and merchandise.

Leffe Beer

Pilgrims were always welcome at Leffe and in 1240 the canons decided to build a brewery for the preparation of a healthy, invigorating beverage (diseases like the plague ran rampant through the region at that time, and the boiling of water during the top fermentation process of the Leffe beer killed all germs). After the French Revolution the abbey was re-established in 1929. The abbey church was reconstructed on the old farm grounds, as the beautiful 18th-century church had been destroyed. Each monk had a specific task and was entirely at the service of the parishes.

Chimay Beer

Chimay is an authentic Trappist beer. That means that it is brewed within the walls of a Trappist monastery under the control and responsibility of the community of monks, and whose revenue is devoted to social service. It guarantees the origin of the beer according to well-established principles. The origin of the name would come from the Celtic word coimos meaning "pretty, pleasant".

Birra Moretti Beer

Birra Moretti is an Italian brewing company, founded in Udine in 1859 by Luigi Moretti, with the name of BeerFactory and Ice. In 1996 the company was acquired byHeineken International. The brewing plant in Udine was sold to the newly formed Birra Castello S.p.A.; Moretti is now abrand of Heineken. Birra Moretti was founded in 1859 by Luigi Moretti in Udine, which at that time was still part of the Austrian Empire, and its first name was the Beer and Ice Factory.

Cronenbourg 1664  Beer

Geronimus Hatt, who obtained his Master Brewer's certificate in 1649, started up the Canon Brewery in the Place du Corbeau in Strasbourg. His son Claude (born November 1665), succeeded his father in the trade in 1683. However, the frequent flooding of the River Ill compelled in 1850 a move to the higher terrain of Cronenbourg, an area of Strasbourg.

London Pride Beer

London Pride is the flagship beer of Fuller's Brewery. It is sold both cask-conditioned and bottled. London Pride takes its name from a common name for the Saxifraga × urbium flower, in use by the nineteenth century. The flower provided shoots of recovery on the bombed sites left by the London Blitz of the early 1940s, and as such held symbolism for Londoners, celebrated in a patriotic song written in 1941 by Noël Coward.

Coors Light Beer

Adolph Coors was born in 1847 in a German town known today as Wuppertal-Oberbarmen. At the age of 14 he began working at the Henry Wenker Brewery in Dortmund. Adolph Coors considered water to be the key ingredient for a perfect beer. Therefore, he decided to locate Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873. The Rocky Mountains are the primary source of the water used in its beer.
Coors Light ad known as Coors Light the brewer ambushes a summer pool party with the frosty taste of winter.

Peroni Beer

The Peroni company was established under the founding family name in the town of Vigevano, Italy, in 1846. The company was moved to Rome by Giovanni Peroni in 1864, six years prior to Rome becoming the Italian capital in 1870. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the company became a somewhat known brewing company in the newly unified Italian nation.
By the 1990s, both the Peroni brand name and product line were distributed and known. The London-based brewing giant SABMillerbought the company in 2003, making it one of the few international brands in its portfolio.
Peroni was bought from SABMiller by the Japanese brewing company Asahi in February 2016.

Amstel Light Beer

The brewery was founded on 11 June 1870 in Amsterdam and named after the Amstel River, the waters of which also served for refrigeration. By 1872, Amstel was annually producing 10,000 hectoliters (220,000 imp gallons). For the purpose of storing the beer, winter ice from canals was kept in special double-walled cellars. Originally, the beer was mostly drunk in Amsterdam. From 1883, it was also exported to Great Britain and the Dutch East Indies.

Estrella Damm Beer

Estrella Damm is a lager beer, brewed in Barcelona, Spain. It has existed since 1876, when August Küntzmann Damm founded his brewery in Barcelona, and is the flagship beer of S.A. Damm, a prominent brewery in the city. The brand is the oldest in Spain and the name Estrella means "star" in both Catalan and Spanish. Estrella Damm is available in many countries, including Australia, Brazil, Peru, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Ukraine, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, Georgia, Honduras and the UKin a 4.6% version. In the United States, it is available through United States Beverage, LLC. Despite its name, Estrella Damm should not be confused with another Spanish lager, called Estrella Galicia.

Yanjing Beer

The Beijing Yanjing Beer Group Corporation, with its quality beer and first class beverage products has developed itself from the former Yanjing Brewery.
The corporation was established in 1980 and in 1997 it completed the shareholding restructuring process pooling its funds to establish the Beijing Yanjing Beer Co., Ltd., which ranks first in total output and profit in China's beer industry. Yanjing beer uses natural mineral water that comes from the beautiful clean Beijing YanShan Mountain; therefore it has a clean, smooth and refreshing taste.
Now Yanjing beer has the nick name entitled "the real taste of China" because typical Chinese people really enjoy this quality beer. Yanjing beer is also the State beer of China and one of the official beer sponsors of 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic, which only top beer has this pride. 

Skol Lager

Skol Lager was developed originally by Ind Coope breweries in Alloa, Central Scotland. In 1958, Graham's Continental was launched (based upon a local brew called Graham's Golden) and quickly changed to Graham's Skol to give a Scandinavian impression(the plant had actually been imported from Sweden). The name was later revised to just Skol.

Kingfisher Beer

A bird in two mind.The story of Kingfisher, the beer brand, was once a lot like the John Mellencamp song, My Aeroplane. Beer belongs to the mass market. Many people enjoy beer. Many have had beer as their introduction to alcohol; not as many would have hit something harder for their first high. Years ago, when pubs sprouted in Bangalore, Kingfisher's home town, they too revolved around beer.