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Does your country have any band or music based special crafted beers? In Finland I can get Mötorhead, Kiss, Iron Maiden and Finnish bands like Amorphis and soon Diablo's Corium Black titled beer.

I was wondering that if I could get information that different countries have band or music related beers I could order some online for educational purposes.

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  • Here in Belgium I don't think we have any non-obscure beers particularly tied to a music group, of course there is a lot of music that goes with beer. I would therefore advise you to buy a students codex which is a book filled with songs to sing while getting drunk with lots of friends. This merry activity is called a 'Cantus' (or commercium or even commers) and is really something you should have done in your lifetime. (comment because not really adding information)
    – Arthur D
    Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 22:21
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    Lost Abbey's Track 8 is a reference to Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast.
    – Andrew Cheong
    Commented Feb 11, 2016 at 17:28
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  • Related article in Italian (but images and names of beers and bands such as Queen or Opeth can't be misunderstood)!
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    Commented Apr 2, 2020 at 22:06

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In Brazil, we have a few. But, in general, they're not an original beer, really created by some musician, but more a marketing thing. They only contract a micro brewery to develop a recipe for then, or even use a previously existent beer and re-brand it with their names.

Examples are: Raimundos, Sepultura (which is a brazilian hardcore band well-known around the world) and Paralamas do Sucesso, bands which have a beer with their names produced by Bamberg Brewery, a microbrewery of São Paulo state dedicated exclusively to german styles. The former 2 being merely a re-brand of Bamberg's flagship beers.

Velhas Virgens is a rock band from São Paulo which have their own brand too, and more than one beer, and I think someone inside the band homebrew. Nowadays they produce in association with Invicta brewery, and I guess they have some contribution for them in the products development, although, of all those "rock band beers", they seem to be the most genuine/authentic initiative.

The way I see this thing on the craft beer scene is: people trying to take advantage of this trending market and make money out of it. It's a pure marketing thing. It's like you being a famous person and associating your name with some product, whatever it is, just because you know people will buy it only because of your image/name, and not because of what is really inside of it.

Particularly, I think this is pure opportunism.

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  • Thank you I am specially interested on the Sepultura beer. Might be hard to order to Scandinavia tough.
    – Pole
    Commented Feb 21, 2016 at 16:08
  • Oh, for sure, hehe. But don't be too excited about it, it's just a regular hefeweizen.
    – Edson Marquezani Filho
    Commented Feb 21, 2016 at 16:20
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In Russia we have ARIA (АРИЯ) heavy metal band branded beer, made by Faxe. Marketing way of Faxe. As presentation of this event the band played a concert right at the Faxe brewery. enter image description here

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If you want a look at a large variety of the band beers available this is a great site where you can buy them: Icon Beverages.

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  • Nice site. Thank you for the information.
    – Pole
    Commented Feb 21, 2016 at 16:07
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In South Africa (where I am from) the band FokofPolisiekar had two beers.

In other countries: Queen has a Bohemian Pilsner.

Loosely related: Playboy also has their own beer. Not a band, I know.

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In Denver CO, Trve Brewing collaborates with a variety of metal bands for some if their beers. There's also Black Sky and Black Shirt Brewing.

Then there's the E40 malt liquor, but I forget who brews it.

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In Texas, Real Ale brewed Iron Swan Ale for The Sword. They followed that up with another Sword branded beer, Ghost Eye.

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Hell, yes!

AC DC beer
(source: acdc-beverage.com)

I have never drunk it though :)

Update.

  • German rock band "Die toten Hosen" ("The dead pants", means "deadly boring") has recently presented its own beer brewed in collaboration with a local brewery - "Hosen Hell" (don't be confused with "hell", it's German for "pale lager beer", so the skull is from the band's logo not from hell. See also note below)

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  • In Russia, there is "Leningrad band" beer named after Russian "Leningrad" band.

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Note: Same applies to "Fucking Hell". Fucking is a village in Austria, Hell is pale beer. But the name is obviously an intended pun.

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  • I had the one on the left. It is a normal German Pils. Nice, but nothing special.
    – Atron Seige
    Commented Feb 11, 2016 at 12:40

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