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Unimpeachable Inspiration

Props to the Salty Nut Brewery for its inspirational Unimpeachable Ale tribute to our Gov. Bentley. We love the idea, attitude and the label design.

It got us thinking: How can we also have some fun with beer and the governor? Actually, at AL.com, that's pretty much all we think about anyway. But this story makes it seem more legit. So a bunch of us put on our drinking caps and came up with goofy beer names featuring our beloved scandalous Luv Guv. And I took some of the names, drew up some labels and added a few details. If you think you can do better than us, you'll get your chance. Details at the end of the slide show.

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10. "Sweet Ears Honey Brown Ale" in a Mason jar

This was one of my early favorites and I drew it up first. John Archibald penned the name, including the Mason jar touch. I think the whole line of our brews deserve to be sipped lovingly from a Mason jar mug. From behind, if possible.

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9. "Horny Goat Hill Ale"

To be honest, a few years a go I never dreamed I'd be drawing Gov. Bentley on a mug of beer as a horny old goat. If you don't believe in cartoon fodder angels, you ain't paying attention. Props to Brian McAlister for this brew name.

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8. "Behind Your Bock"

Wanna play doctor with the Luv Guv? Ol' doc's pretty handy. John Hammontree gets credit for the Bock idea.

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7. "Homonger Hops"

Want a Hoppy ending with that Mason jar? The name is a mashup of ideas from John Archibald and John Hammontree.

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6. "Lock the Door Lager"

In hindsight, the Luv Guv gave some good advice in that recorded phone call with Jake from State Farm. Props to Justin Yurkanin.

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5. "My Kingdom for a Rear" Beer

This one cracked me up. It's literally pretty dang true. Props to John Archibald. If this column-writing hobby of his don't work out, John might make a good little brew namer.

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4. "Fail Ale"

The Mason mug looks empty for the Ol' Fail Ale Guv. Not sure who gets writing credit. Archibald, probably, but I was thinking of one of Yurkanin's titles when I mixed 'em and drew this.

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3. "Little Blue Pilsner"

This one might be my favorite, but on the old David Letterman show it seems like the funniest of the Top 10 was usually number 3. So this one is number 3. By that Archibald guy.

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2. Dianne "Beyonce" Bentley's "Hard #LEMONADE"

Whoa. Didn't see this one coming, did you? Now you know how the governor felt when his wife blind-sided him with a divorce after 50 years of marriage. Dianne Bentley got everything she wanted in the settlement, and then sent the Luv Guv into scandal spin mode when she released her recording of his creepy dirty talk phone conversation with his political adviser, Rebekah Mason. #LEMONADE is the recent smash hit series of music videos by Beyonce, in which she exacts revenge on her cheating man, Jay-Z. Big props to John Hammontree for being young and hip enough to throw down such a cultural reference.

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1. Caption Contest

I'm leaving the number 1 slot open for you. You saw what we came up with. Can you do better? Let me rephrase that. You saw what we were able to publish. Some of our most killer stuff was just too funny to post.

Have at it. Post your captions and/or Luv Guv beer names that could apply to this Bentley brew on the comment boards and we'll have a contest. A winner could win a signed print or something.

Do you have a favorite 'Bentley Beer'? Discuss in the comments, please. Cheers.