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greetings to all. looking for a microbrewery/brewpub company name. we are two RNs wanting out! we both homebrew beer and would like to first distribute beer locally and then open up a restaurant with microbrewed beer AKA brewpub. having trouble coming up with names we agree on. I like Downstate Brewing Co. since we are in “downstate” Illinois. after discussing it we decided it didn’t have the punch we are looking for. Tossed around Clandestine Brewers, Pulse Brewing, Gonzo Brewers, Knox County Beer Works and the list goes on. Any advise or suggestions would be much appreciated. We are located in West Central Illinois, in a smaller town called Galesburg, in Knox County. We have a lot of agriculture around us and a lot of trains. We are the future home of the National Railroad Hall of Fame Museum. We want to start off with a tavern with microbrewed beer and then get some seed money for getting investors and starting restaurant. We want to start off small and have casual atmosphere with a campy and uniqueness about it.
PLEASE HELP!! Thanks

Blowing a Gale (Brewery)
NightingAle (Brewing)
Wrong Side of the Track Brewery Co

Xonk!
Xonked!
Hard Knox Brewing co.

Hard Knox
SwitchTrak
Loco Motive
Ft. Knox
Brew Collar
Brewberry Hill
Engine Yard
Third Rail
Chugalug
Out Of The Brew
Choo Choo

Hogger Hops (“Hogger” railway term for a locomotive engineer

Booster Brew (“Booster” railway term for a diesel locomotive)

Slug Suds (“Slug” railway term for locomotive, with or without an operator’s cab, which lacks a diesel engine, and draws power for its traction motors from a normal locomotive)

Gandy Dancer (“Gandy Dancer” – nickname for a railway track maintenance worker)

Green Goat Grog (“Green Goat” – A type of “hybrid” switching locomotive utilizing a small diesel engine and a large bank of rechargeable batteries)

Lightening Slinger – (“Lightening Slinger” – term for a telegraph operator

Sidetrack Suds

Foam & Feeder Line

Iron Horse Hops

Linger Lager

Hoot Toot & Whistle

Wobbly Works

Haywire Hops

Damn Rough Ride

Monkeys Running Loose

Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse Brewery
Registered Nurse Brewing Company

…it has nothing to do with trains, etc., but it has a story behind it, it’s sexy (or cute…as far in either direction you want to go) and should be easily brandable.

Nursing a Beer…
The Depot
Bubble
Bubbledown
Foam
Grizzly Beer
The Great Illinois Brewing Company

B&B (Bubbles & Burps) Brewery

Loose Caboose Brewery

Downstate Depot (nod to “Snark”)

Honest Abe
Prairie Dawg
Nurse
(In agreement with Snark “Nursing a Beer” but maybe just the word “Nurse” which I believe would mean to others “how to drink our beer/microbrew”… which in turn could become something like “Nursing Our Quality Microbrew”. This idea could then be worked into a marketing/advertising campaign for same).