Big plastic one by the looks of it.
Camra calls time on sexist names at Great British beer festival
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Before long there'll be so many offensive labels on stuff everything will be behind curtains...be like those mucky book shops.
An Ankoù
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Shepherd Neame are not well known for their pornographic imagery and claim that the finger was taken from the shape of local roadsigns:
It takes its name from the finger-shaped signposts which pointed pilgrims on their way to the tomb of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury and was the first strong ale to be brewed by Shepherd Neame after malt rationing was eased in the late 1950s. It is also one of the UK's oldest bottled beers, brewed since 1958.
I can perfectly well understand why the good people of Kent have renamed it thus, though. The poor old nuns need all the comfort they can get, in my opinion, and if a drop of good ale cheers them up... Well, if it's good enough for the monks in Belgium, it's good enough for our home-grown nuns. But, I thought there were nun of them left!
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Terrible idea, I am off to have a pint of Rodgers Old Todger.
http://www.otleybrewing.co.uk/
otley do something similar their motley brew was a big favorite of mine. They really stood out.
Thanks. I'll have to check to see if they sell Otley here. Looks like a nice brewery.
Brewed_Force
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I can remember when I though "Bishop's Finger" sounded a bit rude.......!
An Ankoù
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Never mind "A finger of fudge [being] just enough to give your kids a treat!" But you can read anything into everything: Felinfoel and Kelham both do a "Double Dragon". Are these meant to immortalise the various head brewers' horrific mothers-in-law? As for the example given in the Guardian, I'm sure Slack Alice Cider is a tribute to the proprietress of the local bicycle hire shop, who was a little lax over the accounting. What else could it mean?
It seems like common sense to me for breweries not to alienate one section of their potential customer base with no marketing upside - i.e. I can't see how a 'saucy' pump clip would sell a beer to someone that a non 'saucy' but humorous one would. I'm not a fan of industry censorship, and don't really support organisations such as the Portman Group pronouncing on morality and taste, but if I were a brewer I would have left this type of pump clip back in the 90's, and insist that my marketing dept came up with something better, in the hope that my competitors didn't. I would then steal all the potential new market and reign supreme over my competitors, buying them up for their tied houses and casting their executive out on to the street where they would starve. Bwa hah ha hha ha (insert evil laugh here).
I wonder if they would still be bleating if the Dizzy Blonde depicted a drunken Nordic type gentleman...?I doubt it very much.
I was on their website earlier looking for a beer, Dizzi blonde is still on there 
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Why does nobody complain about Anne Summers shop window displays, I find them highly offensive and the palpitations worry me as well, another pill please matron 
geigercntr
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"As a white, straight male, I am not offended by any of this so called 'sexist' beer imagery.
The beer was made entirely for people like me.
The beer is not intended to be drunk by women, or non straight people etc etc.
Bloody moaners"
The beer was made entirely for people like me.
The beer is not intended to be drunk by women, or non straight people etc etc.
Bloody moaners"
...and people who have nothing better to do.
GotOneBrewin
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A large Black Bush should settle your nerves.Why does nobody complain about Anne Summers shop window displays, I find them highly offensive and the palpitations worry me as well, another pill please matron
An Ankoù
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Anne Summers is an off-licence chain then? We don't have them over here.Why does nobody complain about Anne Summers shop window displays, I find them highly offensive and the palpitations worry me as well, another pill please matron
No I was just making a comparison
GotOneBrewin
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Chippy Tea please judge the monthly completion but with a most offensive beers name competition on the side.
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Just get all the styles lined up and let members come up with names: the worse the better! But no asterisks!
