(Otherwise titled a Totally Useless and Boring Story)
I have always been a fan of pirates. Even when I was a kid I wanted to be a pirate when I grew up. Obviously since I’m not from Somalia, that just wasn’t possible. So I went to college to study the next best thing, Computers. (That was quick 2 sentences and I’m already off topic.)
Anyway shortly after buying my house I set out to build a Pirate themed bar in my basement. Over the course of what became a 2 year project much debate arose about what to Name the bar once completed. A lot of really, just STUPID names were thrown around. When someone mentioned that the basement of a house couldn’t be considered the deck of a ship it was really “below deck”.
They way the person said “below deck” reminded us of a good friend of ours who sadly passed away well before his time. This friend was always known as the joker and one of his infamous lines was, when he didn’t like something you said he’d ask “Where my shoes?” and before you got a chance to answer he’d say “BeLOW Me!”. Couple the “B-LOW” inflection with how closely “Deck” sounds to a nickname for the male appendage and “The B-Low Deck Bar” sounds just dirty enough net piratical enough to make a Great bar name.
Soon after finishing the Bar (always a constant work in progress) I needed a new hobby as well as some beer to serve at my newly established bar so I started homebrewing. I carried the bar name over to my brewing seeing as how I do most of my brewing in my basement it just made sense.
So there you have it, the story behind “B-Low Deck Brewing”.