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Scrumptious Double Nut Brown Ale
Big Brown Cigar
Fat Brown Cigar
Double Brown Cigar
Imperial Brown Cigar
Double English Brown Cigar
Sweet Brown Cigar with Toffee - KP

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Much Ado About Nuttin'     (Shakespeare contemplating a large nut in his hand)

Nut Brown Bomber- Nelson

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How about Brown nuts in Spanish  -  Dos Locos ( for two nuts) or   Doble Mani ( Double Nuts) that is as close as we can get to nut. - Theresa

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Tuerca Loca (Crazy Nut roughly) - with tag line Hecho en Tampa or Hecho a Mano (made by hand) or Hecho Fuerte (Made Strong) -Sean

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Bolita Brown. As you probably know Bolita was the cuban lottery from the early 1900's.  It was illegal and had cuban mafia ties. Ybor city had several bolita houses and thousands came every evening to see the number drawn.  It plays well on the "cigar city" theme. I figure the label could explain bolita and show a bolita ball. The number on the ball could be 2 for the double brown ale. - Greg

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Behike Brown Ale. To go with the Cigar City image, why not name it after one of the finest and most expensive cigars in the world, the Cohiba Behike. The name “Behike” comes from a Taino tribe doctor who used tobacco as medicine. The cigars sell for roughly $400-$450, or a box of 40 for about $19K.  -JJ

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Castro Ale- Jason

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El Presidente, Cerveza Esplendidos, My Brown Friend, The Rocking-Chair (Imperial or Double) Nut Brown Ale. Here is some history on the Rocking-Chair War:

"Like today, the media was paying closed attention, especially of the daily events in Washington so as in Tampa via the telegraph. Reports to the newspapers such as the New York Times and the New York Post which send reporters and photographers to cover the scene. As follow you can read some of those almost daily reports that created a time-line of the daily life in the spring and summer of 1898, in what was called "the rocking-chair war".

During those months, the routine in Cigar City changed month to month as the stage for the war preparations was developed. Once Tampa became the operations base for the war in Cuba , it was the source of many stories for the New York newspapers which in detail described more than the military events, also the daily living.

Tampa then was not much a city as it was a raw and distastefully sandy bit of geography, which lacked the infrastructure to provide for over 50,000 troops in their way to the island of Cuba. Unprepared military authorities were responsible for much of the confusion, which resulted in part from repeated postponement of the schedule embarkation of the troops to the island. That's why Richard Harding Davis, a correspondent for the New York Herald, refer in one of his many articles to “the rocking-chair period of the war”. Emphasizing how officers passed their time on the veranda of the Tampa Bay Hotel rocking chairs."- Ben

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Brownswell
Maduro Ale
Nut It Brown
Brown Boy
Bad Brown
Heavy Brown- Bob

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Praline Brown Ale: I was thinking English Praline Brown Ale, but that seems like its getting too long. What you describe sounds a lot like a praline flavor, plus it has ties to the Old World (invented in France and popular in Europe) and also strong associations to the South. To me this fits the mashup of cultures that your brand(s) reference. Or: Little Brown Ale, as a take off of the traditional song 'Little Brown Jug', plus the idea of calling a 9.5% beer little anything makes me smile.- Chris

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How about something to go with Tampa's history: Brooke Brown Ale, as in Ft. Brooke. - Jerry

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I’ve got a very unique idea for a name. It is maybe too far out there: OK,its dark and the first winter’s storm winds are buffeting the house and you’ve got your Double Nut Brown and you’re watching a 50s era sci-fi or horror movie. You hear that eerie music playing setting the mood. It is coming from a: Theremin’s Song

On the label is an artistic reproduction of an image based on something like this:

http://www.137.com/theremin/leon_theremin300c.jpg - -Dave

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How about: "Smudge Pot Double Nut Brown"-?

 

In case you don't know, smudge pots are devices that grove owners used to employ to keep the fruit trees above freezing on cold Florida nights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudge_pot)

 

The name kinda flows. I'm picturing a label with the "smudge-like" art work like on your cigar label, but depicting an orange tree with smudge pot underneath. It does well in keeping with the Florida references in some of your other beers, and pays homage to the state's (declining) citrus industry. Associates the beer with cool Florida weather when this brew might be extra-tasty. And as a bonus, any name with that special three letter word in it is bound to attract attention from certain "bohemian" beer lovers.. - Mark

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The guys at Beer Nuts got all visual on us:

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Napoleon's Imperial Nut Brown Ale

or

Bonaparte's Imperial Nut Brown Ale
 
Yeah, you like it… try and get more Imperial than that, suckers! - Matt

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Shepherds double nut brown- to go with the english shephards side of things

Conquistador double nut brown - to go with the first people that took tobacco / and cigars back from the new world to europe

gaspars double nut brown - similar to above but with tampa ties

Pinar del Río double nut brown - cubas most highly regarded and best producing region for tobacco

Jeres & Torres double nut brown - the 2 men from columbus's voyage that departed the boat in cuba smokes tobacco and returned to the boat with samples . this started the cigar revolution

chaveta double nut brown - the knife cigar rollers use when rolling cigars.

oscuro double nut brown -  this is name for a Double Maduro cigar

Betrothed double nut brown -the betrothed is a book by rudyard kipling in which he says "A woman is only a woman: but a good cigar is a smoke." and we could say a women is a women but a good beer is a drink

José Martí DOUBLE NUT BROWN - José Martí Cuba's national poet and hero of the independence movement against Spain, José Martí, speeches were read out loud in cigar factories in Tampa - Alan

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The response has been great considering the only real mention for this naming contest is the blog itself!

So far early favorites are:

Bolita Brown
Pinar del Rio
Chaveta Brown
Jeres & Torres
Theremin's Song
Much Ado About Nuttin

and Brownsell is kind of growing on me. And the other two names for a Smudge Pot: Choofa or Orchard Heater have a certain ring as well. Though I'm not sure they fit for this beer I can see them making an appearance on other beers.

It's not over though. Keep sending your ideas!

Cheers,
Joey Redner