"Name the new O'Fallon Beer" Contest

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"Name the new O'Fallon Beer" Contest



Tony and Fran Caradonna started O'Fallon Brewery in 2000 producing small production craft beer here in Missouri and then in 2002 they hired on Brian Owens to head up the brewing. O'Fallon has grown into an award winning brewery and a Missouri favorite over the past 10 years and this year they have some amazing new brews slated for release. Back in January, they had a press release to announce two new exciting beers. The two new beers that were announced: Wee Heavy and a Hemp Hop Rye Amber (these are coming soon).




The Contest!!
We are proud to announce that one of their next beers will be a rare style -- O'Fallon Sticke Alt. That is where you come in to the picture: O'Fallon Brewery has been generous enough to allow you, O'Fallon Beer lover, a chance to name the O'Fallon Sticke Alt. A good example is the O'Fallon Wheach, it was derived from a combination of Wheat and Peach, so be creative and come up with a name for O'Fallon "?? ?? ??" Sticke Alt.
Below you can read Brian Owens' description of the beer and click on the link for more details about the style. The rest is up to you. Come up with a creative name for the O'Fallon Sticke Alt that Brian Owens has created. The O'Fallon beer family will decide whose name is the winner!


Brian Owens' description the O'Fallon Sticke---
"So here’s the skinny on the Sticke! As you probably know the word “Sticke” is a mangled version of the “low german” word “stickum” which translates to “secret”. The secret lies in the recipe where only a small few knew what actually went into the beer. German brew masters of the day measured their ingredients by the bucketful and if they weren’t paying attention or maybe they had a bit too much beer to drink they sometimes added too much grain. They had to add more hops to balance the maltiness of the extra grains and ended up with a bigger and typically darker version of their Alt. Our version will be an Imperial version of the original. Coming in at 10% ABV this beer will be big and malty with hints of toffee and a subtle roastiness, but will be fully attenuated and relatively dry for being such a big beer. The hops that are used are of the German noble variety giving a healthy bitterness and a noble Pils hop aroma. There is a short list of people who will actually know the recipe and I think the winner of the contest ought to be one of those few."
-- Brian Owens, brewmaster
Beer Specs:
ABV 10%
SRM 17OG 22 brix
FG 4.3 brix (anticipated)


More Links:
O'Fallon Brewery -- read more about O'Fallon for ideas
Sticke Ale -- click here to read more about the style
Beer Advocate on Alt beers



What you win if your O'Fallon Sticke Alt name is picked:
* The prestige of a beer that you named to tell your friends
* O'Fallon schwagg
* The winner has the option to go to O'Fallon and help brew the beer that they named.
* Oh! They will be in on the secret recipe as well!!
* Plus a Gift Certificate to The Wine and Cheese Place

Contest Rules:
* You must be 21 to enter
* No purchase necessary, see store for details.
* One "free" entry per person
* You will be informed if your name is a duplication of a previous entry.
* Deadline for entering April 15, 2010
* The winner will be announced soon after that.
* You do not need to be present to win.



Click here to enter the contest
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Order "Name the beer Contest" and go to "Check out", for "delivery method" - use "Name the Beer Contest", and for "Payment method", also use the "Name the Beer Contest" option in the drop down screen. Fill in your "beer name" in the "customer comments".
Any questions: paul@wineandcheeseplace.com.


**Right now, you can only enter online. In a few days, you will be able to enter at the stores

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Here are some of the entries so far, to help avoid duplication:

Stick 'Em Up Alt (complete with a picture of a guy with a gun on the label)

Speak Softly and Carry A Big Sticke

The Big Stick(e) inspired by:“Speak softly and carry a big stick."President Theodore Roosevelt

GestALT SchWine

"Boom Sticke", as in "This is my Boom Sticke!"

Undercover Hipster Sticke Alt - Going with the secret idea...An alt is also slang for a hipster. The label could feature a tattooed, mustached hipster revealing himself behind a trench coat.

Wicked Sticke

Secret Agent Alt

O'Fallon Sticke Situation Ale

Hop Secret

Sticke Semper Tyrannis

Copper Sticke

Sticke Alt Twisted Toffee Malt

Sticke It To The Man Alt
5% of the proceeds will be used to set up a Small Brewers Fund. It will help the Little Guy get a leg up on large (BMC) breweries in the local markets. Just in time for Independence Day.

Double Naught Spye Beer

Kraftwerk: Which is a German word meaning 'power plant'. (It is also the name of Dusseldorf's other world-famous progeny, the pioneering electronic music band Kraftwerk, who celebrate their 40th anniversary this year.) The label's graphics could be German steampunk. A futuristic-for-the-1800s reimagining of a Fraktur typeface. A close view of a power plant's gears, baroquely engraved with alchemical, floral, and pinnate figures, spitting electricity through their filigreed teeth. The very sort of power plant a Modern Prometheus of the era might keep in a secret laboratory, to bring life to a creation larger and more powerful than nature intended.

Vick's Sticke (Victoria's Secret)

Über Sticke

Old Krekel Alt.
In honor of the founding father of O'Fallon, MO, Arnold Krekel.

Sticke Figure Alt

Private Alt --wordplay on "Private Eye" suggests secret nature of recipe

Swinging Shelligah Sticke Alt

Probably too Irish for a German beer, but I like the sound still. Cheers, folks!

Alt you glad it's sticke

My name is Alt, Sticke Alt.

Hushed Revelation --- Hushed as in secret recipe and Revelation in the winner (theoretically) knowing the secret recipe.

Secret Stickler Alt Ale

O'Fallon Slap Sticke

Shtickey Secret

Fruit of the Rhine

"O'Fallon Stickeasy" or "Sticke Easy" Sharing in the same secrecy as a 1920s Speakeasy

"Short end of the Stick"

Sticke Shock - an Alt Beer

"Mighty Casey Sticke Alt"
A play on Mighty Casey Strikes Out. I think that "Mighty Casey" would be good name for a big beer like this.

FETCH!

Brewmasters Darkest Sticke
(This could be used again if a 6% was made, by crossing out "darkest" and replacing with "dark". If a 10%+ version is made or a barrel aged version, then it could be "even darker")

O'Fallon's Keizer Dubbele Vogel (Imperial Double Bird)

Wicket Shtick(Wicket is very close to Wicked in pronunciation but a play on words and it would represent the St. Louis Arch since in croquet the arches are called wickets. Shtick is a play on the word Sticke but also has Yiddish origins meaning "a devious trick" representing a secret also.)

Beer Name: "Wunder Bier," the magical sticke alt of O'Fallon

X-Alt

Tree of Knowledge Sticke Alt

RumpleSTICKEkin

Alter Ego

"old brown sticke"

O'Fallon Second Shooter - going off the whole secretive, conspiratorial, and dark part of the Sticke Alt. "Maybe it wasn't just Lee Harvey OswAlt."

O'Fallon "Bucket Brigade" Sticke Alt
(A bucket brigade is a method of passing items from one person to the next, in order to transport them. Most often, this was used to pass water to put out fires. Here, bucket brigade plays on the fact that buckets were used to measure beer ingredients, and the secret recipes of Sticke Alts were typically passed from person to person, but never written down).

Hops & RobbersA play on the childhood game of "cops & robbers", this naming twist brings a fantastic primary and secondary packaging image to mind of the traditional 1930's masked robber who is always trying to steal the hops and secret recipe for the O'Fallon Sticke Alt, but never quite succeeds despite getting very close through the use of imaginative and clever tactics.

Old Stick - Sticke Alt

Sticke Buns

Sticke Icke

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