Week 40, June 12, 2023. Life is a PITCH! Every pitch has the possibility of turning into a home run or a strike, which is what makes life and baseball so interesting. Here’s to all the parents of little leaguers just discovering the joy of baseball, and all the diehard MLB fans who may need a beer. Thank you Hogback for your great fun pun to start our week.
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Week 39, June 5, 2023. We’ve been saving this bee-eautiful pun for just the right time. It’s the perfect season for a crosstown business lunch or meeting as well as bee-pollinating. Flowering plants, bushes and trees are blooming big-time. Cheers to bees and beezness! Thank you To Share Brewing!
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Week 38, May 29, 2023. Hoppy Memorial Day to everyone and thank you to all who have given their lives in service to our country. Our friends at Steam Mill Brewing in Bethel, ME, provided this nice pun in patriotic colors. “Brew good. Do good” it reads. “Every sip is a step towards making our community stronger.” We salute their spirit and applaud their pun. Three cheers for the red, white and blue! @Steammillbrewing
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Week 37, May 22, 2023. With all the buzz about AI (Artificial Intelligence), ChapGPT, Bard, etc., this pun is particularly refreshing. And Amherst Label has been spotlighting art with our CANVAS exhibit, so we are officially delighted to share this pun. Thanks Modest Man for the Monday morning smiles.
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Week 36, May 15, 2023. Caution: Creative minds at work here: This Strobbery label reads, “Let’s taco-bout a bold, refreshing blend of strawberry and lime that will steal the show at any event.” Let’s taco-bout how cool a pun Stroberry is! Hooray for 1623 Brewing Company.
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Week 35, May 8, 2023. Cool deco styling for this label and a terrific pun make it a lot more fun than calling it “Miami Wheat.” With strawberry, pineapple and coconut, this could be our new vice. Thank you Kettlehead for a fun pun to start the week. Cheers!
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Week 34, May 1, 2023. BYOB stands for “Bring Your Own Bear” on this label for a “funky, sour golden ale… infused with a ridiculous amount of our favorite gummy candies….“ Bear necessities! Thanks Pipe Dream Brewing!
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Week 33, April 24, 2023. Cole Porter wrote “Anything Goes” in the 1930s and Atlantic Brewing Company has been brewing Coal Porter since 1993. From their website:
There is a much debate in the brewing world about the difference between porters and stouts. At one time the two were even considered synonyms. Nowadays porters are often more malted, while stouts tend to be more roasted in flavor. When we decided to add a dark beer to our repertoire we chose to pursue the rich, chocolate tones of a porter. This ale continues to gather accolades in the beer world for its strong malt backbone and well-balanced, bitter hops.
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Week 32, April 17, 2023. Tipping our collective hats to Curtis Dopson, the amazing talent at Pipe Dream Brewing who is also one of our featured artists in CANVAS opening this week. Hefeweizen: an unfiltered wheat beer with yeast. Of course the perfect pun is a reference to Hef, the Playboy Hugh Hefner who would have loved to be portrayed as a giant banana.
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Week 31, April 10, 2023. Nice colors for the post-Easter season and a reminder that beach season is on its way. We checked with our teammate Jack, the beer brewer turned Amherst Label account executive, to tell us what SLURP is in the beer-making process.
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Week 30, April 3, 2023. A sweet pun that may have nothing to do with the song but made us want to stand up and shout anyway. Hooray for fun puns!
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Week 29, March 27, 2023. Cue the song and let the fun begin. Cheers to Lone Pine Brewing Company for this charming pun. We’ll be singing the song all week.
We wouldn’t have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we’d take a limousine ’cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn’t have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest-, Dijon ketchup, mm, mm
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Week 28, March 20, 2023. Who’s ready for a round of golf and an iced tea lemonade sour? This fun pun makes us yearn for the greens of spring. Love the pun too. Congratulations Resurgence!
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Week 27, March 13, 2023. Props to Proper Brewing for this nod to SLC Punk, the classic counter-culture film from 1998. And thank you to Jack and Jeannette for suggesting this one. We have some super chill people at Amherst Label—and they patiently explain things to the rest of us.
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Week 26, March 6, 2023. Whether your humor tends toward the off-color, or you like to speak with contrived accents, we hope this will make you smile… here’s the label most suggested for Monday Pun Day. With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, we know some Irish eyes will already be smiling.
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Week 25, February 27, 2023. A riddle wrapped in a mystery inspired by hard candies, Transcend asks us to “Skiddle me this….” A pun Batman, the Riddler and Skittles fans would enjoy. “Taste the rainbow,” skittle-lovers!
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Week 24, February 20, 2023. It’s hard to find a shadow on top of Hogback Mountain, which offers the most beautiful panoramic view of VT, NH and MA. So when they name a beer, “Beyond a shadow of a doubt—er stout—” they know what they’re talking about. This would have been a great label to share for Groundhog’s Day….
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Week 23, February 13, 2023. After a weekend of “winter warmer” weather when many of us got out on the snow in a good way, this wonderful pun from Amherst Brewing is spot-on. Here’s hoping we all get another chance soon to be “up to snow good.”
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Week 22, February 6, 2023. As a manufacturer, we just love this machine pun! @ThomasHooker put their imagination to work with this beautiful label and excellent pun.
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Week 21, January 30, 2023. Adrienne in Accounting and Shane in Sales brought our attention to this great pun—a spin off from MC Hammer’s “Stop Hammer Time” from U Can’t Touch This. Watching the video takes us back to 1990… in a good way. Cheers to Hammer Time, Hammock Time, @AmbitionAles and Blueberry Cream Ale. Stop!
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Week 20, January 23, 2023. A particularly pleasing parody of the well-known Banksy street art (fascinating back story), this Barreled Souls blueberry jam stout features a plucky pun. Thank you to Nikki in our Finishing Department for flagging this. And thank you Barreled Souls for this great story.
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Week 19, January 16, 2023. Mount Monadnock, the one that “stands alone” in southern NH, is a favorite to climb, photograph and use in business names. But for this bock (strong, dark lager), using the name in a pun is really a thing of beauty.
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Week 18, January 9, 2023. For everyone who watched the show, had the action figures and/or dressed up as a Power Ranger for Halloween, this one’s for you. Power up Proper Brewing!
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Week 17, January 2, 2023. What better New Year’s message than, “Carpe Diem/Seize the Day?” Stony Creek Brewery starts our year with a wonderfully creative pun to describe their “American Hefe… infused with Bigelow’s Earl Grey tea,” presumably giving a nice caffeine kick along with the distinctive Earl Grey bergamot citrus flavor… “making your day that much brighter.”
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Week 16, December 26. The label says “The Shnow must go on!” Here, here and cheers! The story gets better: This collaboration beer supports Dion’s Dreamers, the “official foundation of NFL Buffalo Bill’s star Dion Dawkins, Dion’s Dreamers was founded with the goal of providing mentorship and support to young men and women in underserved communities, as well as those in a place of mental, financial or physical hardship. Dion’s Dreamers also aims to advocate for vulnerable populations by increasing awareness of the environmental issues that directly affect their communities.” Snow great! Amherst Label has some diehard Bills fans as well as diehard beer fans so we are delighted to feature this label in our Monday Pun Day series. Go Bills.
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Week 15, December 19. Not Santa Clause. Santa Sauce! Hoping Santa doesn’t get sauced on Christmas Eve…. Cheers to our friends Transcend Beer Crafters in Southington, CT, for this beautiful holiday label with special sauce.
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Week 14, December 12. This holiday offering features a cute pun and benefits area kids—a triple winner. We love the knit texture too. Great job Counter Weight!
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Week 13, December 5. Sailing the 7 Cs…. Could the first C stand for Christmas? Nope, if you look closely you can see Calypso, Columbus, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Citra and Crystal on the hops. Seven varieties of hops! The 8th and 9th C could be clever and creative! And number 10: Congratulations to Brewster River for this great pun to start the month of December.
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Week 12, November 28, the start of the holiday season. We’ve been waiting a while now to share a pun from this special customer whose name is already a great pun. So, this week, ahem, we have a double pun—“A stitch in pine” which ties back to the name Sew Hop’d. Love, love, love. Happy Holidays!
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Week 11, November 21, Thanksgiving week! In celebration of Thanksgiving, we present a tribute to the traditional Thanksgiving garnish fruit, the cranberry. But if you read the label (every label tells a story!), this design and excellent pun are celebrating a person:
“Cranberry Bob, the farmer behind the first commercial cranberry-growing operation in Vermont… and the inspiration for Americran. Our parnership with the Vermont Cranberry Company has lasted for nearly a decade and has created the perfect union of apples and cranberries. They are, after all, two of the finest fruits in the Northeast.”
Seriously, how cool is that? Happy Thanksgiving everyone! And cheers to Cranberry Bob of Vermont!
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Week 10, November 14. Hay! Here’s a good one: HAZE for Horses! East Rock Brewing/Barn Brew Company created this for a hazy pale ale that is “the perfect compliment to a life well-lived.”
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Week 9, November 7. Sun Dew, Some Don’t! Delightful! On this perfect sunny November day, we say, we dew! Hooray for this clever pun from Kettlehead!
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Week 8. October 31. We saved this one for H-AL-loween! It’s a little challenging to read this without wanting to add another phrase…. But it’s worth the effort. Congratulations to Rockingham Brewing and Tuckaway Tavern for this spooktacular creation.
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Week 7. October 23. Creative! Creepy? Maybe! We love it! Roastmary’s Baby. Now that is a far-out pun. Perfect for H-AL-loween week.
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Week 6. October 17. Here’s a gourd-geous label from our friends at Banded Brewing. A pun that rhymes—a new twist! Two more Halloween puns coming up on the next two Mondays. Fun Days. Cheers!
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Week 5. October 10. Who doesn’t love a “pun”kin-themed pun? This fun one labels a “blonde ale crafted with Blueberry Bay Farm pumpkin and a hint of ginger, nutmeg and vanilla.” Yum!
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Week 4. October 3. The label tells the story behind this pun: “The goal with Cone Flakes was to make a beer so blisteringly hoppy that its flavors are akin to eating a bowl of hops with a spoon…. We suggest drinking it instead.” How fun is that? Hats off to our friends at Firefly Hollow.
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Week 3, September 26. Moat Mountain’s Gnomaste IPA is this week’s Monday Pun to meditate on. Notice the gnome is not hopping—he’s sitting.
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For weeks, if not months, we have been talking about starting a Monday Pun Day page and sharing the
Week 2, September 19, 2022: We can just picture the faces of our friends at Liquid Therapy as “IPA” and “eye” converged in their thoughts and bam, “Poke me in the IPA” happened. Dramatic art and a clever pun! Happy Monday Pun Day.
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Week 1, September 12, 2022. Whether it gives you a giggle or a groan, here’s our first clever pun from Account Exec Shane Beaton’s friends at Kinsmen Brewing. (PS Loved the movie–lots of great one-liners.)
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