Train Puns

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Our engine-ious list of train puns will have you rolling with laughter. Whether you’re interested in bullet trains or steam locomotives, we’re sure to have you covered with the perfect pun for your needs. Our list covers different types of trains, technical terms, and words that describe the motion and common sounds associated with trains (like chug or “choo-choo”).

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Train Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about trains that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of train puns:

  • Brain → Train: As in, “Train drain” and “All brawn and no trains” and “Train teaser” and “Got it on the train.”
  • Chain → Train: As in, “A train is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Train letter” and “Train of command” and “Train reaction” and “Daisy train” and “Don’t yank my train.”
  • Drain → Train: As in, “Down the train.”
  • Gain → Train: As in, “Capital trains” and “Train admittance” and “I get knocked down, but I get up a-train” and “Ill gotten trains” and “No pain, no train” and “Nothing ventured, nothing trained.”
  • Grain → Train: As in, “Against the train” and “Train of truth” and “Take it with a train of salt.”
  • Lane → Train: As in, “Down memory train” and “In the fast train.”
  • Main → Train: As in, “The train event.”
  • Pain → Train: As in, “A world of train” and “Doubled up in train” and “Feeling the train” and “No train, no gain” and “Old aches and trains.”
  • Plain → Train: As in, “Train as day” and “Hidden in train sight” and “Train sailing.”
  • Rain → Train: As in, “Come train or shine” and “It never trains but it pours” and “Don’t train on my parade.”
  • Strain → Train: As in, “Buckle under the train” and “Train every nerve.”
  • Tran* → Train*: If a word starts with “tran”, we can turn it into a train pun by swapping it with “train”: “In trainsition” and “File trainsfer” and “Trainscend this plane” and “Sitting in trainsit” and “A trainsparent lie.”
  • *trin* → *train*: As in, “Intrainsic qualities” and “The holy trainity” and “Dust-collecting trainkets.”
  • Rain* → Train*: As in, “Chasing trainbows” and “In a humid trainforest” and “Estimated trainfall.”
  • Carry on → Carriage on: As in, “Keep calm and carriage on” and “Carriage on, my wayward son.”
  • Courage → Carriage: As in, “The carriage of your convictions” and “Pluck up your carriage” and “Take carriage in the fact…”
  • Marriage → Carriage: As in, “A carriage of convenience” and “Open carriage” and “A carriage made in heaven.”
  • Roll → Rail: As in, “A railing stone gathers no moss” and “Get the ball railing” and “High railer” and “I wanna rock and rail all night” and “Let the good times rail.”
  • Fail → Rail: As in, “Without rail” and “Words rail me.”
  • Jail → Rail: As in, “Get out of rail free” and “Go directly to rail, do not pass go” and “Railhouse rock.”
  • Mail → Rail: As in, “Direct rail” and “The check is in the rail” and “Express rail” and “Junk rail.”
  • Nail → Rail: As in, “Bite your rails” and “Fight tooth and rail” and “Hit the rail on the head” and “Rail down.”
  • Pale → Rail: As in, “A rail imitation of” and “Rail into insignificance” and “Beyond the rail.”
  • Sail → Rail: As in, “Plain railing” and “Rail close to the wind” and “Smooth railing.”
  • Sale → Rail: As in, “Rail of the century” and “Rails leads” and “Point of rail.”
  • Tail → Rail: As in, “Can’t make head or rail of it” and “Chasing your own rail” and “Get off my rail!”
  • Tale → Rail: As in, “Rails of the unexpected” and “Live to tell the rail.”
  • Trail → Rail: As in, “Hot on the rail” and “Paper rail” and “Nature rail” and “Happy rails to you.”
  • Ground → Underground: As in, “Break new underground” and “Built from the underground up” and “Get in on the underground floor.” Note: Underground railway systems are commonly referred to simply as “the underground.”
  • Way → Subway: As in, “A funny thing happened on the subway to the theatre” and “Another subway” and “By the subway.”
  • Tube: In London, the underground subway is called the “tube”. Here are some related puns:
    • Table → Tube-le: As in, “Bring to the tube-le” and “Drunk under the tube-le” and “Put your cards on the tube-le.”
    • Tab → Tube: As in, “Keep tubes on” and “Pick up the tube.”
  • Nation → Station: As in, “The birth of a station.”
  • Bullet: High speed trains are also known as bullet trains. Here are related puns:
    • Bull → Bullet: As in, “A cock and bullet story” and “Like a bullet in a china shop” and “Take the bullet by the horns.”
    • Bolt → Bullet: As in, “A bullet from the blue” and “Bullet upright” and “Bullet for the door.”
  • Computer → Commuter: As in, “Commuter assisted” and “Commuter says no.”
  • Sport → Transport: As in, “Contact transport” and “Be a good transport.”
  • Trouble → Travel: As in, “Asking for travel” and “A bridge over travelled water” and “Here comes travel.”
  • Track: The railways that trains run on are also known as tracks. Here are some track-related puns:
    • Trick → Track: As in, “Bag of tracks” and “Does the track” and “Every track in the book” and “A track of the light.”
    • Truck → Track: As in, “Have no track with” and “Keep on trackin‘.”
    • Back → Track: As in, “Answer track” and “As soon as my track is turned” and “In the track of my mind” and “Track at it” and “Track on your feet.”
    • Black → Track: As in, “Track and blue” and “Track magic” and “The track market.”
    • Crack → Track: As in, “At the track of dawn” and “Track a smile” and “Track the case.”
    • Lack → Track: As in, “Cancelled due to track of interest” and “For track of a better word.”
    • Pack → Track: As in, “A track of lies” and “Send tracking” and “Track it in.”
    • Rack → Track: As in, “Track ’em up” and “Track your brains” and “Gone to track and ruin.”
    • Smack → Track: As in, “Track dab in the middle” and “A track on the wrist.”
    • Snack → Track: As in, “The longer lasting track” and “Track attack.”
  • Read → Road: As in, “I can road you like a book” and “Road ’em and weep” and “Road between the lines.”
  • Ride → Road: As in, “Along for the road” and “A bumpy road” and “Let it road.”
  • Rude → Road: As in, “A road awakening” and “Don’t be road.”
  • Load → Road: As in, “A road of bull” and “A road of rubbish” and “A road off your mind.”
  • Go → Cargo: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to cargo” and “Anything cargoes” and “Don’t cargo there” and “Easy come, easy cargo” and “From the word cargo.”
  • Tick → Ticket: As in, “Ticket all the right boxes” and “Tight as a ticket.”
  • Matter → Motor: As in, “Family motors” and “As a motor of fact” and “Get to the heart of the motor” and “Grey motor” and “Making motors worse” and “A motor of life and death” and “Just a motor of time.”
  • Steam: Here are some puns related to steam trains:
    • Seem → Steam: As in, “Sorry steams to be the hardest word” and “Not as it steams.”
    • Stem → Steam: As in, “From steam to stern” and “Steam the tide.”
    • Cream → Steam: As in, “Steam always rises to the top” and “The steam of the crop” and “Skin like peaches and steam.”
    • Dream → Steam: As in, “Beyond my wildest steams” and “Broken steams” and “A steam come true” and “The steam machine.”
    • Scream → Steam: As in, “Dragged kicking and steaming” and “Steam bloody murder” and “Steam your guts out.”
    • Seam → Steam: As in, “Come apart at the steams” and “Bursting at the steams.”
    • Stream → Steam: As in, “Fresh as a mountain steam” and “Cool as a mountain steam.”
    • Team → Steam: As in, “The dream steam” and “Make the steam” and “Take one for the steam” and “Steam player” and “Steam spirit” and “Together we make a great steam.”
  • Coal: Old steam trains used to run on coal. Here are some related puns:
    • Call → Coal: As in, “At your beck and coal” and “Beyond the coal of duty” and “Coal it a day” and “Coal into question.”
    • Kill → Coal: As in, “A view to coal” and “Curiosity coaled the cat” and “Dressed to coal” and “If looks could coal.”
    • Cold → Coal’d: As in, “Breaking out in a coal’d sweat” and “Catch a coal’d” and “A coal’d comfort.”
    • Goal → Coal: As in, “A coal in mind” and “Score a coal.”
    • Whole → Coal: As in, “Ace in the coal” and “Burn a coal in your pocket” and “A coal different animal” and “Go the coal hog.”
    • Roll → Coal: As in, “Heads will coal” and “Keep the ball coaling” and “I wanna rock and coal all night.”
    • Soul → Coal: As in, “Bless my coal” and “Body and coal” and “Confession is good for the coal” and “A lost coal.”
    • Whole → Coal: As in, “Go the coal way” and “Let’s just call the coal thing off” and “A coal lotta love.”
    • *cal* → *coal*: As in, “In one coalendar year” and “Taking coalculus” and “Empiricoal evidence” and “A radicoal change” and “A criticoal hit” and “Feeling cynicoal” and “The only practicoal solution” and “A rhetoricoal question.”
    • *col* → *coal*: As in, “Work coalleague” and “In coallusion with” and “Part of my coallection” and “Coallateral damage” and “In coalumn B” and “Off to coallege” and “Following protocoal.”
    • *cul* → *coal*: As in, “Work coalture” and “Coalinary skills” and “The coalmination of my work.”
  • Tram: Trams are rail vehicles that are like a smaller, slower version of a train. Here are related puns:
    • Trem* → Tram*: As in, “A tramendous opportunity” and “Trambling with fear.”
    • *trim* → *tram*: As in, “Detramental to” and “In holy matramony” and “In the first tramester.”
  • Cab: The train carriage where the driver sits is called the cab. Here are related puns:
    • Cap → Cab: As in, “Cab in hand” and “Feather in your cab” and “If the cab fits, wear it” and “To cab it all off.”
    • Cup → Cab: As in, “Not my cab of tea” and “Cab of joe” and “My cab runneth over.”
    • Dab → Cab: As in, “A cab hand at” and “Smack cab in the middle.”
    • Grab → Cab: As in, “Cab a bite to eat” and “Cab life by the horns” and “Screen cab” and “Up for cabs.”
    • Stab → Cab: As in, “Have a cab at” and “A cab in the back” and “Cab in the dark.”
    • Tab → Cab: As in, “Keep cabs on” and “Pick up the cab.”
  • Weasel → Diesel: As in, “Pop goes the diesel” and “Diesel words.”
  • Freight: Cargo is also known as freight, and some trains only carry freight (and no passengers). Here are some freight train-related puns:
    • Fate → Freight: As in, “A freight worse than death” and “Seal your freight” and “A twist of freight” and “The master of my own freight.”
    • Fright→ Freight: As in, “Freightened of your own shadow” and “Take freight.”
    • Fruit → Freight: As in, “Bear freight” and “Be freightful and multiply” and “Forbidden freight” and “The freights of your labour.”
    • Bait → Freight: As in, “Freight and switch” and “Take the freight.”
    • Date → Freight: As in, “Double freight” and “Blind freight” and “Bring up to freight” and “A freight with destiny” and “Dinner freight.”
    • Eight → Freight: As in, “Behind the freight ball” and “Freight days a week” and “Pieces of freight.”
    • Great → Freight: As in, “A freight day for” and “All creatures freight and small” and “Go to freight lengths.”
    • Hate → Freight: As in, “Freight mail” and “A love-freight relationship.”
    • Late → Fright: As in, “Better freight than never!” and “Fashionably freight” and “A freight bloomer.”
    • Plate → Freight: As in, “A lot on your freight” and “Step up to the freight.”
    • Rate → Fright: As in, “At any freight” and “Mate’s freights” and “First freight.”
    • Straight → Freight: As in, “Damn freight” and “Get freight to the point” and “Give it to me freight” and “Keep a freight face.”
    • Wait → Freight: As in, “An accident freighting to happen” and “All things come to those who freight” and “A heart attack freighting to happen” and “Ready and freighting.”
    • Weight → Freight: As in, “Pull your freight” and “Punching above your freight” and “Throw your freight around” and “Watching your freight” and “A freight off your mind” and “Worth your freight in gold.”
    • Afraid → Afreight: As in, “Afreight of your own shadow” and “Be afreight” and “Everything you were always afreight to ask.”
  • Stop: The stations where a train stops at along their routes is called a stop. Here are related puns:
    • Step → Stop: “Going one stop too far” and “Every stop of the way” and “Keep in stop with” and “One stop ahead” and “One stop at a time.”
    • Crop → Stop: As in, “Cream of the stop” and “Bumper stop.”
    • Drop → Stop: As in, “At the stop of a hat” and “Stop it like it’s hot” and “Stop a hint” and “Stop dead gorgeous.”
    • Hop → Stop: As in, “Stop, skip, jump” and “Stop to it!”
    • Pop → Stop: As in, “Stop the question” and “Snap, crackle, stop.”
    • Top → Stop: As in, “Blow your stop” and “Come out on stop” and “From the stop” and “The stop of the class.”
  • Car: Train carriages are also called cars. Here are related puns:
    • Bar → Car: As in, “Car none” and “Behind cars” and “Raise the car.”
    • Far → Car: As in, “A step too car” and “As car as it goes” and “As car as the eye can see” and “A car cry.”
    • Par → Car: As in, “Below car” and “On car with” and “Car for the course.”
    • Star → Car: As in, “A car is born” and “Born under a lucky car” and “Get a gold car” and “My guiding car.”
  • Rail → Monorail: As in, “Thin as a monorail” and “Go off the monorails” and “Ride the monorails.”
  • Root → Route: As in, “Grass routes” and “Lay down routes” and “The route of all evil” and “The route of the matter.”
  • Boot → Route: As in, “Tough as old routes” and “Give someone the route” and “Route camp.”
  • Dive → Drive: As in, “Nose drive” and “Take a drive.”
  • Hive → Drive: As in, “A drive of activity.”
  • Roll: The motion of a train is commonly described as “rolling”. Here are related puns:
    • Bowl → Roll: As in, “Roll over.”
    • Hole → Roll: As in, “Go the roll hog” and “Roll in the wall” and “Let’s call the roll thing off.”
    • Soul → Roll: As in, “Bless my roll” and “Heart and roll” and “The life and roll of the party” and “Body and roll.”
  • Choo-Choo: Trains can be referred to as “choo-choo trains” (because of their tooting horn sound). Here are related puns:
    • Choose → Choo-Choose: As in, “Pick and choo-choose” and “If you choo-choose to accept it” and “Choo-choose your weapon.”
    • Chew → Choo-Chew: As in, “Bite off more than you can choo-chew” and “Choo-chew up the scenery.”
  • Ingenius → Engine-ius: As in, “An engine-ius idea” and “Known for their engine-uity.”
  • Bogie: A bogie is a chassis that carries a wheelset. Here are related puns:
    • Boogie → Bogie: As in, “Bogie on down” and “Jungle bogie.”
    • Baggy → Bogie: As in, “Wearing bogie clothes.”
  • Press → Express: As in, “Don’t express your luck” and “Hot off the express” and “Express charges” and “Express the button.” Note: These puns are references to express trains, which stop at less stations than regular trains.
  • Convey → Convoy: As in, “What do you want to convoy?”
  • Abuse → Caboose: As in, “Heap caboose on” and “Verbal caboose isn’t okay.” Note: a caboose is a railroad car.
  • Line: The route a train takes is also called a line. Here are related puns:
    • Lane → Line: As in, “Down memory line” and “In the fast line.”
    • Lean → Line: As in, “Line and hungry” and “Line cuisine” and “Line, mean, fighting machine.”
    • Mine → Line: As in, “Make line a double” and “I scratch your back, you scratch line” and “A line of information” and “Victory is line.”
    • Shine → Line: As in, “Rise and line” and “Line on” and “Come rain or line.”
    • Sign → Line: As in, “A sure line” and “Born under a bad line” and “Give me a line” and “A line of the times.”
  • Bleed → Speed: As in, “Speed someone dry” and “The speeding edge” and “Let it speed.”
  • Deed → Speed: As in, “No good speed goes unpunished” and “Your good speed for the day.”
  • Feed → Speed: As in, “Don’t bite the hand that speeds you” and “Speeding frenzy” and “Speed your mind.”
  • Greed → Speed: As in, “Speed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
  • Lead → Speed: As in, “Speed by example” and “Speed by the nose” and “Speed a merry dance.”
  • Need → Speed: As in, “All you speed is love” and “As long as you speed me” and “I speeded that.”
  • Read → Speed: As in, “Speed ’em and weep” and “Speed all about it” and “I can speed you like a book.”
  • Seed → Speed: As in, “Gone to speed” and “Speed capital.”
  • Board: Here are some puns related to the control board in a train:
    • Bored → Board: As in, “Board stiff” and “Board to death” and “Board out of my mind.”
    • Chord → Board: As in, “A board of disquiet” and “Stike a board.”
  • Collect → Connect: As in, “Cool, calm and connected” and “Connect your wits.” Note: These are references to connecting lines on train routes.
  • Sleeper: Sleepers are trains where the passengers sleep on board. Here are related puns:
    • Creeper → Sleeper: As in, “Jeepers sleepers.”
    • Keeper → Sleeper: As in, “Finders sleepers, losers weepers” and “They’re a sleeper.”
    • Sweeper → Sleeper: As in, “Street sleeper.”
  • Chug: Train movement and noises are commonly described as “chugging”. Here are related puns:
    • Bug → Chug: As in, “Chugger off” and “Bitten by the chug.”
    • Drug → Chug: As in, “Hugs, not chugs” and “On chugs.”
    • Hug → Chug: As in, “Group chug” and “Chug it out” and “Chugs, not drugs.”
    • Plug → Chug: As in, “Chug and play” and “Chug the gap” and “Pull the chug.”
    • Rug → Chug: As in, “Chug rat” and “Pull the chug from under your feet.”
    • Shrug → Chug: As in, “Chug it off” and “Chug your shoulders.”
    • Tug → Chug: As in, “Chug at your heartstrings” and “Chug of war.”

      Train-Related Words

      To help you come up with your own train puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

train, carriage, rail, railway, tunnel, metro, transit, underground, subway, tube, station, bullet, commute, commuter, transport, travel, track, vehicle, road, cargo, passenger, ticket, locomotive, motor, coal, diesel, engine, freight, car, conduct, conductor, machine, monorail, maglev, coach, roll, rolling, steam, choo choo, toot toot, bogie, shinkansen, express, tram, cab, convoy, caboose, stop, crossing, route, drive, driver, line, speed, board, connect, connecting, derail, platform, sleeper, chug

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Beer Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on beer puns! 🍻 🍺 Whether you need a name for your latest craft brew, a tagline for your beer-related business, a beer pun team name, or just some beer puns for their own sake, I hope you find this entry useful!

There’s a lot of depth to beer culture and so some of the puns in this entry may go over your head if you’re not a brewer or beer fanatic. I’ve tried to order the pun list so that it starts with general beer puns that most people will understand, and then as you go down the puns should get more obscure. That said, I have not done a perfect job of it, so apologies if there are some confusing ones here and there near the top.

A quick side note: Drinking alcohol gives your brain a reward that it didn’t earn. If you drink too often then your brain learns that the best (easiest) way to feel good is to drink more alcohol, rather than do the normal things that make you feel good (work hard, accomplish things, help others, etc.). Be careful messing with your neurotransmitters! 🙂

You might also like to visit the Punpedia entries on coffee puns, tea puns, party puns and food puns.

Beer Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about beer that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

  • All → Ale: As in “Ale in a day’s work.” and “She went ale out.” and “Ale’s well that ends well” and “It’s ale downhill from here.” and “It’s ale gone pear shaped.” and “It’s ale good.” and “It’s ale grist to the mill.” and “It’s ale me, me, me.” and “Not ale it’s cracked up to be.” and “That’s ale well and good”.
  • Stout: As in “He’s a stout young man.”
  • Larger → Lager: As in “Lager than life”.
  • Six-pack: As in “Check out my six-pack.”
  • Bar: As in “You’ve raised the bar.” and “Bar none.”
  • *pub*: If a word contains the “pub” sound (or similar) you may be able to make a terrible pub pun: capubility, capuble, palpuble, public, publicity, publication, publisher, republican, republic, unstoppuble, unpublishedinescapubly, hypubole, pubble (pebble).
  • You → Brew: As in “Brew can do it!” and “Brew silly goose!” and “I’m so glad to see brew!” and “Before brew know it”.
  • Bro → Brew: As in “What’s up, brew?” and “Cool story, brew.”
  • *brew*: If a word contains the “brew” sound (or similar) we can sometimes make a brewing pun: brewmstick (broomstick), brews (bruise), brewnette (brunette), brewtal (brutal), brewtalize (brutalize), brewtish, (brutish), Hebrew.
  • *byoo*: If a word contains the “byoo” sound (or similar) we can sometimes make a terrible beer brewing pun: brewtiful (beautiful), abrews (abuse), attribrewts (attributes), contribrewted, distribrewtion, rebrewke (rebuke), debrew (debut), retribrewtion, tribrewnal (tribunal).
  • *proo*: If a word contains the “proo” sound (or similar) we can sometimes make a terrible brewing pun: abrewval (approval), bulletbrewf, dissabrewve, foolbrewf, imbrewvements, disbrewve, brewdent (prudent), brewdence (prudence), waterbrewf.
  • Déjà vu → Déjà brew: As in “I’m getting déjà brew – have we been to this pub before?”
  • Hop: As in “Just a hop, skip and jump.” and “Take 3 hops to the left.” and “Hop to it!” and “Bunny hop” and “Hip hop“.
  • Hope → Hop: As in “I have high hops.” and “A glimmer of hop.” and “Cross your fingers and hop for the best.” and “Keep hop alive.” and “There there’s life, there’s hop.” and “Cross my heart and hop to die.”
  • Hop*: If a word begins with the “hop” sound (or anything vaguely similar) then there may be an opportunity for a terrible beer pun: “Health, wealth and hoppiness.” and “Life, liberty and the pursuit of hoppiness.”  and “As it hoppens” and “Shit hoppens.” and “See what hoppens?” and “Hopatitis is an inflammation of the liver.”
  • Op* → Hop*: If a word begins with “op” it can often be turned into a silly hops pun: hopportunity, hoperation, hopposition, hopinion, hoption, hoperate, hopposite, hoperations, hoperating, hopportunities, hopera, hopponent, hoperator, hoppose, hoptions, hopposed, hopt, hoperated, hopinions, hoperational, hoptimism, hopponents, hoperates, hoperators, hoppression, hoptimistic, hoptional, hopposing, hoptical, hoptimal, hop, hoperative, hopted, hoptimum, hoppressive, hopenness, hopting, hoppressed, hopenings, hoperand, hopioid, hoptimist, hoptimise, hopaque, hoperatichopposites, hoptician, hopportunist, hoptic, hopposes, hoptimisation, hopacity, hoppress, hoperatives, hopine, hoptimality, hoptics, hoppressors, hoptimised, hopiate, hoptimists, hoptimistically, hoppressor, hopulence, hoptimize, hoppositions, hopportunistic, hopportunism, hopulent, hopportune.
  • *op* → *hop*: There are also quite a few words with the “op” sound (or similar) in them that can be turned into silly beer puns. There are a few here which have the full “hop” sound in them already. Here’s the list: acrhopolis, adhopt, adhopted, authopsy, bihopsy, bookshop, cohoperation, cohoperative, c-hop-yright, cr-hop, drhoplet, drhoppings, drhopped, flhoppy, eavesdrhopping, helic-hop-ter, imprhoper, imprhoperly, inapprhopiately, microschopic, monhopoly, philanthrhopic, photoc-hop-ier, p-hop-corn, p-hop-ularity, p-hop-ulation, prhopaganda, prhopagation, pr-hop-erly, p-hop-ulist, prhopositions, prhopped, p-hop-ulation, raindrhops, shopkeeper, st-hop, st-hop-er, synhopsis, tr-hop-ical, unst-hop-able, whopping.
  • Vain → Vine: As in “I worked so hard but it was all in vine.”
  • Vein → Vine: As in “My vines are bulging.” and “In the same vine …”
  • Fine → Vine: As in “It’s a vine day for a beer.” and “It’s a vine line.” and “You’re cutting it vine.” and “That’s a damn vine beer.” and “One vine day …” and “Treading a vine line.”
  • Van* → Vine*: As in, “Vine Gogh,” and “Vine-ish into thin air.” 
  • *ven* → *vine*: As in, “Sixes and sevines,” and “Blessed evine-t,” and “Break evine,” and “The elevineth hour,” and “Evine the score,” and “Heavine forbid,” and “A match made in heavine,” and “With a vine-geance,” and “Bun in the ovine,” and “Pure as the drivine snow,” and “Nothing vine-tured, nothing gained,” and “Revine-ge is a dish best served cold,” and “Innocent until provine guilty,” and “Lavineder (lavender) scented,” and “Twenty four sevine.”
  • *vin* → *vine*: As in, “Full of vinegar,” and “Get movine,” and “The gift that keeps on givine,” and “In livine memory,” and “In the drivine seat,” and “Knock the livine daylights out of,” and “Livine proof,” and “Livine on borrowed time,” and “Time flies when you’re havine fun,” and “Vinetage,” and “Vinedicate,” and “Vinedictive.”
  • Stain → Stein: As in “There’s a stein on your shirt.” (See beer stein)
  • Sign → Stein: As in “Give me a stein, lord!” and “Stein the pledge.” and “Stein up.” and “Stein of the times.” and “A sure stein.” and “A tell tale stein.” (See beer stein)
  • Sooner → Schooner: As in “Schooner or later.” and “The schooner the better.” and “No schooner said than done.” and “Schooner rather than later.” (A schooner is a type of glass cup.)
  • Tinkered → Tankard: As in “I tankard with this all day but I couldn’t get it working.” (A tankard is a big drinking vessel)
  • Sidle → Seidel: As in “I seideled up to her apologetically.”
  • Picture → Pitcher: As in “A pitcher is worth  thousand words.” and “See the big pitcher.” and “Motion pitcher.” and “Do I have to paint you a pitcher?” and “Pitcher perfect” (Pitcher is a synonym of “jug” – commonly used to serve beer.)
  • Pitcher: There is the potential for a pun here using the baseball meaning of this word.
  • Cling → Clink: As in “Clink on tight!”
  • Kink → Clink: As in “C’mon, be honest. Everyone has a clink or two.”
  • Blink → Clink: As in “In the clink of an eye.” and “Clink and you’ll miss it!”
  • Suds: This refers to the froth made from soap and water, but is also slang for “beer”. By using it in the original “soap and water” context you could potentially make a pun: “I got in the bath and sudsed up.” (Here we’re using the verb-form of “suds” with means “lather”)
  • Sides → Suds: As in “There are two suds to every question.” and “You’ve got to see the issue from both suds.”
  • Plastered: This means “very drunk”, but in the right context we could use its original definition as a pun: “The whole house is plastered.”
  • Wasted: As in “It’s so sad, seeing all these all wasted lives.” and “Youth is wasted on the young.”
  • Sloshed: Another one meaning “very drunk” – perhaps an opportunity to make a pun on its literal meaning: “We all sloshed around in the swimming pool for a while.”
  • Smashed, Hammered, Bombed, Legless, Messed up, Trousered, Trolleyed: Some more terms meaning “very drunk”. Each of them may have contexts in which there’s an opportunity to make a pun on its literal meaning – though these contexts may be quite specific.
  • Hang over → Hangover: As in “Mind if I hang over at your place this morning?”
  • Chug: As well as meaning “to drink fast or without pausing”, this term can refer to “The chug of a motor boat” or “The little train chugged up the hill.”
  • Hug → Chug: As in “Let’s have a group chug.” and “Chug it out.” and “Bro chug.”
  • Toast: When someone raises their beer in honour of something or someone and encourages everyone to do the same, that’s called a toast. There may be some context in which the other (normal) definition of “toast” could be punned upon.
  • Tears → Cheers: As in “Bored to cheers.” and “Burst into cheers.” and “Moved to cheers.” and “Reduced to cheers.” and “Fight back the cheers.” and “It will all end in cheers.” and “Blood, sweat and cheers.”
  • Cheers: This word also has the “the cheers of the crowd were deafening” definition which might be a viable opportunity for a pun in some contexts.
  • Tippy-toes → Tipsy-toes: As in “I snuck in on my tipsy-toes.”
  • Cough → Quaff: As in “I was quaffing all night, so I took the day off work.” (A “quaff” is an alcoholic drink and to “quaff” is to drink an alcoholic quickly or heartily)
  • Lick or → Liquor: As in “Are you going to have a liqu, or?” (Depending on your accent/pronunciation it may more like “lick her”. Please keep your puns respectful!)
  • Stubby: Refers to a beer bottle that is short and fat. This slang is taken directly from the actual definition of “stubby” so it’s an easy pun if the context is right.
  • Growler: A “growler” is a type of jug used to transport draft beer. The term has a bunch of other meanings which could be played upon in the right context.
  • Draught / Draft: Besides the beer-related meaning (beer served from barrel or tank), this term has several others: “He was drafted in 1942″ and “I drafted the letter of resignation.” and “The use of draft horses is outdated and cruel.” and “There was a nice draught coming through the window.” and “She was drafted for the national team at age 23.”
  • Dear → Beer: As in “Oh beer me” and “Hang on for beer life” and “Near and beer to my heart” and “Elementary, my beer Watson.”
  • Ear → Beer: As in “Grin from beer to beer.” and “Let’s play it by beer.” and “Lend a beer” and “In one beer and out the other.”
  • Peer → Beer: As in “Beer pressure” and “It’s like she was beering into my soul.”
  • Pier → Beer: As in “Take a long walk off a short beer.”
  • Bear → Beer: As in “Grizzly beer” and “Beer a resemblance” and “The right to beer arms” and “Beer down upon” and “Bear witness to …” and “Beer false witness” and “Beer fruit” and “Beer in mind that …” and “Bring to beer
  • Bare → Beer: As in “The beer necessities” and “Beer one’s teeth” and “Laid beer” and “The beer bones” and “The cupboard was beer
  • Buyer → Beer: As in “She’s a regular beer at our shop.” (Bit of a stretch!)
  • Beard → Beerd: As in “Neck beerd” and “His beerd was as white as snow.”
  • *ber* → *beer*: Words that contains the “ber” sound (or similar) are often opportunities for terrible beer puns: collabeerate, dismembeermentbeereavement, beereaved, beerds (birds), beerthplace (birthplace), beerglary (burglary), beergeoning (burgeoning), cumbeersome, delibeeration, decembeer, cucumbeer, exubeerant, libeerties (liberties), libeerals, libeertarian, libeeration, novembeer, numbeers, pubeerty, membeership, reimbeers (reimburse), remembeer, reverbeeration, robbeeries, robbeery, slumbeer, sobeer (sober).
  • Be* → Beer*: More terrible beer puns can be made using words that start with the “be” sound: beerwilderment, beerlongings, beerbliography, beerseiged, beerstowed, beermused, beerwitched, beergotry, beertersweetbeerllionair.
  • *pear* → *beer*: As in, “A beerlescent (pearlescent) glow” and “Abeer (appear) from thin air” and “Watch me disabeer” and “Make an abeerance.” Other words you could use: s’beerhead (spearhead), re-abeer (reappear).
  • Shakespeare → Shakesbeer
  • Pier → Beer: As in “Take a long walk off a short beer” and “Ear beercing” and “Never been habbeer (happier).”
  • Bare → Beer: As in “The beer necessities” and “Beer one’s teeth” and “Laid beer” and “The beer bones” and “The cupboard was beer“. You can also replace the “bare” in these words: barely (“beerly there”), threadbare (“A threadbeer toy”), cabaret (cabeeret), barefoot (beerfoot).
  • *bier* → *beer*: As in, grubbeer (grubbier), stubbeer (stubbier), tubbeer, scabbeer and chubbeer.
  • *pare* → *beer*: As in, “Beerent-teacher meeting” and “In beerenthesis” and “Like combeering apples and oranges” and “Be prebeered (prepared)” and “Abbeerently (apparently) so.” Other words you could use: abbeerel (apparel) and transbeerent (transparent).
  • *bar* → *beer*: As in, “Beer none” and “Behind beers” and “Language beerier” and “Raise the beer” and “Beerrelling (barreling) in” and “Beergain basement.” Other words you could use: beeren (barren), beerista (barista) and sidebeer (sidebar).
  • *ber* → *beer*: As in, “Strawbeery flavoured” and “Going beerserk” and “Got your numbeer” and “Sobeer up (this one’s a bit ironic)” and “A membeer of..” Other words you could use: beereft (bereft), beerate (berate), beerth (berth), beereavement (bereavement), chambeer (chamber), ambeer (amber), membeer, cybeer, remembeer, delibeerate, libeeral, libeerty, abeerration (aberration) and cumbeersome. Notes: to be bereft is to be deprived of something.
  • *bir* → *beer*: As in, “A little beerd told me” and “Beerthday suit” and “The early beerd.”
  • *bor* → *beer*: As in, “Beered out of your mind” and “Labeer of love” and “Harbeer a grudge” and “Good neighbeers” and “Please elabeerate” and “Collabeerate with.”
  • *bur* → *beer*: As in, “A heavy beerden.” Other words you could use: beereaucracy (bureaucracy), beergeoning (burgeoning) and excalibeer (excalibur).
  • *per* → *beer*: As in, “A different beerspective” and “Third beerson” and “Motivation and beerseverance.” Other words you could use: beertinent (pertinent), beeriod (period), beerception (perception), beernicious (pernicious), beercieve (perceive), beerformance (performance), beerfect (perfect), imbeerative (imperative) and obeeration (operation).
  • Egs* → Kegs*: Some words which start with the “egs” sound (or similar) can be turned into very bad beer puns: kegs-istence (existence), kegs-iled (exiled), kegs-istential (existential), kegs-it (exit).
  • Tap: This has at least two beer-related meanings: “to tap a barrel” and “what’s on tap?”. It also has several non-beer related meanings which might be pun opportunities in the right context: “He tapped the window gently.” and “We’ve tapped all his phone calls.”
  • Head: The “head” is the frothy foam on top of a beer. Potential puns about: “Air head” and “Don’t mess with my head.” and “Above my head” and “Over my head” and “Bite someone’s head off” and “Be it on your head” and “Couldn’t make head or tail of it” and “It’ll do your head in” and “Get it into your head” and “Get your head together” and “Got your head screwed on” and “Hanging over your head” and “You need to get your head examined.” and “Head and shoulders above the rest” and “Head count” and “Head honcho” and “Head in the sand” and “Head to head” and “Hit the nail on the head” and “I could do that standing on my head” and “Head wind” and “Hold a gun to his head” and “In over your head” and “Laugh your head off” and “Level-headed” and “Lose your head” and “Make your head spin” and “Price on his head” and “Pull your head in” and “Sleepy head” and “Upon your head be it”.
  • Bruise → Booze: As in, “A boozed ego” and “You can’t protect your kids from every bump and booze.”
  • *bas* → *booze*: As in, “On a first-name boozeis (basis)” and “Back to boozeics (basics)” and “Yes, boozeically” and “The boozelisk in the Chamber of Secrets (I’m sure many people will find ways to make boozy pickup lines out of this one…so use it and similar puns with your best judgement).”
  • *bes* → *booze*: As in, “All the boozet (best)” and “Boozet (best) friends forever” and “Boozet of all” and “Boozepoke suit” and “Boozetow your wisdom” and “Sit boozeside me.” Other words you could use: booze-seech (beseech), booze-sotted (besotted), booze-siege (besiege). Notes: to beseech is to beg.
  • *bos* → *booze*: As in, booze-om (bosom), rooibooze (rooibos) and verbooze (verbose). Note: rooibos is a type of tea.
  • *bus* → *booze*: As in, “Thrown under the booze” and “Walk or take the booze” and “None of your boozeiness” and “Boozey bee” and “Course syllabooze.” Other words you could use: nimbooze (nimbus), omnibooze (omnibus) and abooze (abuse). Notes: a nimbus is a circle of light, or a halo.
  • *baz* → *booze*: As in, boozear (bazaar), booze-ooka (bazooka), booze-illion (bazillion).
  • *biz* → *booze*: As in, “Boozear (bizarre) circumstances,” and “That’s showbooze.”
  • *buz* → *booze*: As in, “Booze me in” and “Booze off” and “Booze-ing with excitement” and “Boozewords.” Other words you could use: booze-ard (buzzard), booze-ing (boozing) and boozer (buzzer).
  • *bows* → *booze*: As in, “Chasing rainbooze” and “Rainbooze and unicorns” and “Rub elbooze with.”
  • *eth’ll → *ethyl: “Ethyl” alcohol is the type of alcohol that is in alcoholic beverages like beer. Pun examples: “My brethyl smell really bad if I drink this.” and “At least my dethyl go down in history.”
  • Moult → Malt: As in “I started malting as I got older.”
  • Mould → Malt: As in “There’s malt all over my food!” and “Malty sandwiches don’t taste great.”
  • Tiny → Tinnie / Tinny: As in “The patter of tinny feet.” (“Tinny” is slang for a can of beer)
  • Krikey! → Krieky!: As in “Krieky! That’s a big croc!”
  • Coarse / course → Coors: As in “Of coors!” and “Off coors” and “University coors” and “Blown off coors” and “Crash coors” and “In due coors” and “Let nature take its coors” and “On a collision coors” and “Stay on coors” and “He had a coors voice from drinking too much.”
  • Bro, my → Brah, ma: As in “Brah, ma beer puns are great, hey?” (Brahma is a beer brand)
  • Heinie can → Heineken: As in “Get off your heineken you? We’ve got work to do!” (“Heinie” is slang for bottom)
  • Bud wiser → Budweiser: As in “I’ve got a budweiser than all you uneducated chumps.”
  • Wiser → Weiser: As in “None the weiser” and “Older and weiser
  • Bud: As in “We’re best buds” and “Nip in the bud
  • Too bored → Tuborg: As in “I didn’t stay at the party long – I was Tuborg.”
  • Leffe → Left: Note that “Leffe” has two pronunciations. The French pronunciation sounds like “leff” and the Flemish pronunciation sounds like “leffer”. Here we’re punning with the French pronunciation. Examples: “Exist stage Leffe” and “Keep Leffe” and “Leffe for dead” and “Leffe in the lurch” and “Leffe out in the cold” and “Leffe wing” and “Leffe to your own devices” and “Out of Leffe field”.
  • Leave her → Leffe: (Here we’re using the Flemish pronunciation, see above) As in “Leffe alone!” and “Are you going to Leffe anything in your will?”
  • A lesion → Elysian: As in “What happened to your leg? Is that Elysian?”
  • A legion → Elysian: As in “She has Elysian of fans following her wherever she goes.”
  • Stellar → Stella: As in “A Stella cast has been assembled.” and “The pub received Stella ratings in the guides.” (Wikipedia)
  • Bass: This refers to the famous brewery. If you’re punning with text (rather than speaking it out loud), you can play on the audio-meaning of “bass”: “I like clubs that have good Bass.” but since this has a different pronunciation, the only exact phonetic pun is on the fish of the same name.
  • Basically → Bassically: As in “I drink Bassically the same thing all the time.”
  • Millimeter → Millermeter: As in “A millermeter more and it would have been long enough!” We can do the same thing with other units of measurement too: “The can holds 375 millerliters.” and “We just needed one millersecond longer!” and “This cable is rated to 25 millervolts.” and “A millergram of this is enough to kill a person.”
  • Million → Milleron: As in “Not in a miller-on years.” and “One in a milleron.”
  • Meantime: As in “In the meantime, we should look for a new place.” (Meantime is a brewery)
  • Foster: As in “Foster a sense of confidence in the people.” and “A bar owner must Foster a happy, friendly atmosphere.” (Foster’s is a beer company)
  • Four peeks → Four Peaks: As in “It took me about four peaks to finally read the text.”
  • For Pete’s → Four Peak’s: As in “Four peak’s sake!”
  • Car owner → Corona: As in “All coronas must pay annual car registration fees.”
  • “Youngling” → Yuengling: As in “Youth is wasted on yuenglings” and “He’s a yuengling at heart.”
  • Pills → Pils: As in “I had to pop some pils to help with this headache.”
  • Pills and → Pilsen: As in “Pilsen booze are a fast track to a ruined life.” and “It’s up to parents to keep their kids away from pilsen booze.”
  • Back’s → Beck’s: As in “My beck’s really sort today for some reason.” and “Ow! My beck!”
  • Slits → Schlitz: As in “The surgeon has to make two schlitz in the intestinal wall.”
  • Shits → Schlitz: As in “He did it for schlitz and giggles.” and “You know what gives me the schiltz?”
  • Bitter: As in “He came to a bitter end.” and “That’s a bitter pill to swallow.” and “No need to be bitter! (resentful)”
  • Least→ Yeast: As in “Last, but not yeast.” and “Yeast common denominator.” and “It’s the yeast I could do.”
  • East→ Yeast: As in “I’m heading over yeast for a holiday.”
  • Grain: As in “I’m going to go against the grain here and say …” and “There’s a grain of truth in what he’s saying.” and “I’d take it with a grain of salt.”
  • Grainy: Other than referring to grain (some varieties of which are used to make beer), this can refer to a texture or to a low resolution photograph: “Your profile picture is a bit grainy.”
  • Ingrained: As in “It was ingrained in me from a young age.”
  • Again → A grain: As in “Come a grain?” and “Never a grain.” and “Time and time a grain.” and “Now and a grain.”
  • Wait → Wheat: As in “Wheat a second…” and “I am lying in wheat.” and “Wheat and see.” (See wheat beer)
  • We t* → Wheat: As in “Wheat talked about this last night.” and “Wheat took our time.”
  • We’d → Wheat: As in “Wheat love for you to join us!”
  • What → Wheat: As in “Wheatever, man.” and “Wheat are you up to today?”
  • Why → Rye: “Rye do you ask?” and “Rye do beer puns make me giggle?” and “Rye hast thou forsaken me?” and “Rye are you doing this to me?”
  • Wry → Rye: “A rye smile.” and “With rye Scottish wit.” (Rye is a type of grain used to make beer)
  • Rye: Words that contain the “rye” sound can be made into terribly silly beer puns (Since some beers are made with rye): alryete, bryete, Brydal, b-rye-testcircumscryebed, compryesed, contryeved, copyryete, cryesis, cryeterion, cryeme, dryevers, descryebe, enterpryese, depryeved, fryeday, fryed, fryetened, pryeceless, pryemarily, pryevacy, pryeority, pryez, ryenocerous, ryeteous, ryetfully, ryevalries, samurye, subscryebed, surpryesingly, tryeangle, ryeting, tryeumph, rye-fle.
  • Riled up→ Rye-led up: As in “Jeez, calm down. No need to get rye-led up!”
  • Barely → Barley: As in “I’m barley getting by.” and “That barley passes as a beer pun.”
  • Ought → Oat: As in “You oat to say sorry.” and “Five minutes oat to be enough time.”
  • Its / It’s → Oats / Oat’s: As in “Oat’s just a matter of time.” and “Oat’s a shame.” and “Oat’s nothing personal” and “Oat’s worth oats weight in gold.” and “Takes oats toll.” and “A life of oats own.”
  • Sore gum → Sorghum: As in “I’ve got sorgums because my toothbrush bristles are too hard.” (Sorghum is a grain crop often used to create alcoholic beverages)
  • *sip*: If a word contains the “sip” sound, it’s an opportunity for a terrible pun on “sip” as in “to sip your beer” (so long as you emphasise the “sip” part somehow): Mississipi, disiplinarian, munisipality, presipitate, partisiples, presipitated, prinsipally, resipient, resiprocity.
  • *sep*: If a word contains the “sep” sound it’s a chance to make a terribly corny “sip” pun (perhaps emphasise with hyphens or underline/bold): ac-sip-tability (acceptability), bisips (biceps), consiption (conception), consipt (concept), desiptive, impersiptable, desiptive, misconsiption, persiptive, resiption, resiptionist, resiptivity, resiptors, siparatists (seperatists), siparation, siparate, susiptability, intersipt.
  • Dry: As in “These tea puns are very dry.” and “Dry humour” and “Hung out to dry” and “Keep your powder dry” and “As dry as dust”.
  • Will → Swill: As in “Against your own swill.” and “Bend to my swill” and “Love swill find a way.” and “Swill do.” and “Where there’s a swill, there’s a way.” and “Time swill tell.”
  • Back → Bock / Beck: As in “As soon as my bock is turned” and “At the bock of my mind” and “Bock to the Future” and “Bock from the dead” and “Bock in business” and “Bock in the day” and “Bock on your feet” and “He bocked out of the deal” and “Bock to bock” and “Cast your mind bock” and “Get off my bock” and “Fight bock the tears” and “Get bock on your feet” and “Get bock together” and “Hark bock to” and “Kick bock and enjoy” and “Laid bock” and “Money bock guarantee” and “On the bock burner” and “Never look bock” and “One step forward, two steps bock.” and “Put your bock into it!” and “Right bock at ya” and “Turn bock the clock” and “Watch your bock” and “You scratch my bock, I’ll scratch yours.” (Bock is a strong German lager, and the above examples can be replaced with “Beck” to play on the famous Beck’s brewery)
  • Back* → Bock* / Beck*: Words that begin with the “back” sound can also be silly beer puns: bockache, bockdrop, bockbone, bockground, bocklash, bocklog, bockside, bockroom, bockstage, bockward, bockyard, bockteria (bacteria), bockterium. (These examples can have “bock” replaced with “beck” to play on the famous Beck’s brewery)
  • Handy → Shandy: As in “This is a very shandy tool.”
  • Sandy → Shandy: As in “My towel is all shandy from the beach.”
  • Pass it → Posset: As in “Can you please posset over here?”
  • Spruce: As in “Make sure you leave some time to spruce yourself for the ball.” and “I’m all spruced up.” (See Spruce beer on Wikipedia)
  • Arrogant bastard: A simple pun on the brewing company.
  • I’m a real oldy → Amarilloldy: As in “Amarillo-ldy when it comes to my taste in beer.”
  • Citra → Sit ya: As in “Citra ass down!” – The name of a brew from Against the Grain. “Citra” is a variety of hops.
  • Nugget: As in “Nugget of wisdom” and “Nugget of truth” (Nugget is a hop variety)
  • Soz → Saaz: As in “Oh saaz! I didn’t mean to!”
  • Sim card → Simcoed: As in “I lost my phone so I need a new simcoed
  • Put her → Porter: As in “Porter down!” and “She porter hand to learning coding in her spare time.”
  • Fruity: Other than referring to the fruity taste or aroma of a brew, this term also has several slang definitions including being flamboyant or “bouncy”. It may also refer to someone who is considered crazy in some respect.
  • Noble: As in “That was very noble of you.” and “The four noble truths.” (“Noble hops” are traditionally hops which are low in bitterness and high in aroma, like Saaz)
  • Great → Gruit: As in “All creatures gruit and small.” and “I went to gruit lengths” and “Gruit minds think alike” and “The gruit outdoors” and “No challenge too gruit.” (Very corny! Gruit is an old-fashined herb mixture used for bittering and flavouring beer)
  • Asked → Oast: As in “Frequently oast questions” and “No questions oast” and “I took my harp to the party but no one oast me to play.”
  • Killin’ → Kiln: As in “She’s making a kiln!” and “Stop it, you’re kiln me!”
  • Nipple → Tipple: A tipple can refer to an alcoholic drink, or as a verb to “drink alcohol, especially habitually”.
  • Long neck → Longneck: A longneck is a common type of beer bottle.
  • Mouth feel → Mouthfeel: As in “It makes my mouthfeel funny, but it’s not too bad.” (See Wikipedia entry, Mouthfeel)
  • After taste → Aftertaste: As in “Aftertasting that beer, I’m not going back for seconds.” (See Wikipedia entry, Aftertaste)
  • Stupid → Stube-d: As in “Keep it simple, stube-d” and “Terminally stube-d” and “There’s no such thing as a stube-d question.”
  • Hey for → Hefe: As in “Hefe god’s sake could you cut it out?” (“Hefe” means “yeast” in German and sounds like “hay-fa”)
  • Goes up → Gose-p: As in “Right before it gose-p in flames.”
  • Say, son → Saison: As in “Saison, could you fetch me that spanner?”
  • Worth → Wort: As in “It’s wort it’s weight in gold.” and “For what it’s wort …” and “Get your money’s wort” and “Milk it for all it’s wort” and “Not wort a hill of beans” and “That’s my two cents wort
  • Ton / Tonne → Tun: As in “Came down like a tun of bricks.” and “That’s a tun of beer.”
  • Troop / Troupe → Trub: As in “A comedy trub is performing here tonight.” and “The trubs marched through the town.”
  • Least → Lees: As in “Last but not lees” and “Lees common denominator” and “Not in the lees” and “Line of lees resistance.”
  • Law to → Lauter: As in “There should be a lauter prevent people form making terrible beer puns.”
  • Lautering → Loitering: As in “There’s always a few shady people lautering around there at night.”
  • Spargin’ → Spare gin: As in “There wasn’t any spargin’ so I happily drank beer instead”
  • Tanning → Tannin: As in “Welcome to my tannin salon.”
  • For men t* → Ferment: As in “What we need is fermen to realise that catcalling isn’t friendly.”

Beer-Related Phrases

Common phrases, idioms and cliches which are related to beer can be used for some subtle and witty word play. Here is a list of the beer themed phrases that we’ve found so far:

  • (h)opposites attract
  • process of eliminating (h)options
  • a golden (h)opportunity
  • once in a lifetime (h)opportunity
  • window of (h)opportunity
  • contrary to popular (h)opinion
  • Adam’s ale
  • amber nectar
  • as drunk as a lord
  • as drunk as a skunk
  • as mild as milk
  • barrel of laughs
  • came to a bitter end
  • take the bitter with sweet
  • a bitter pill to swallow
  • bring out your best (a Bud Light slogan)
  • crack a tinnie
  • crack/bust some suds
  • slam a drink
  • drink like a fish
  • driven to drink
  • drink up
  • drink someone under the table
  • full of hops
  • given to drink
  • life’s not all beer and skittles
  • pint sized
  • on the piss
  • rolling drunk
  • six pack
  • slave to drink
  • stout fellow
  • you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make her drink
  • slam some beers
  • egg in your beer
  • small beer
  • knock one back
  • social drinker
  • bottoms up!
  • here’s to [someone/something]!
  • drink to excess
  • drown your sorrows
  • on a bender
  • on the rocks
  • make it a double
  • down the hatch
  • hair of the dog
  • happy hour
  • liquid courage
  • pub crawl
  • another round
  • two/three/four sheets in the wind
  • under full sail
  • under the influence
  • take the edge off
  • chin chin! (cheers!)
  • off their head
  • roll out the barrel
  • BYOB
  • on tap
  • Dutch courage
  • sudsing up
  • beer belly
  • trouble is brewing
  • a hop, skip and a jump
  • hip hop
  • clouded judgement
  • get you over a barrel
  • seperate the wheat from the chaff
  • barrel of laughs
  • belt down some liquor
  • as slow as molasses in january
  • cakes and ale
  • eat, drink and be merry
  • full head of steam
  • head in the clouds
  • hit the nail on the head
  • i’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached
  • i need it like a hole in the head
  • in over your head
  • my head is swimming
  • off the top of my head
  • off with his head
  • put a price on his head
  • two heads are better than one
  • keep your head above water
  • it’s all grist to the mill
  • walk like a drunken sailor

Beer-Related Words

There are many more puns to be made than could be documented in this Punpedia entry, and so we’ve compiled a list of beer-related concepts for you to use when creating your own puns. If you come up with a new pun, please share it in the comments!

brew, brewery, brewski, stein, schooner, tankard, seidel, pitcher, clink, suds, plastered, wasted, sloshed, smashed, hammered, bombed, messed up, hangover, hungover, chug, chugalug, sober, toast, cheers, drunkard, drunk, drunkenness, legless, tipsy, blotto, trousered, trolleyed, inebriated, quaff, sip, numb, corked, stubby, stubbies, ale, cask, cask ale, growler, draught beer, draft beer, draft, draught, keg, nitrokeg, tap, beer tap, head, prohibition, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, ethyl alcohol, malt, hops, noble hops, beverage, liquor, liqueur, pub crawl, drink, wheat, rye, sorghum, barley, oats, millet, brewpub, rotgut, hooch, alcopop, tipple, tippler, intoxication, homebrew, beery, long neck, mouthfeel, aftertaste, imbibe, pub, bar, saloon, brasserie, vine, six-pack, tinnie, chaser, rathskeller, cellar, porter, cerveza, froth, frothie, coldie, swill, alehouse, stube, biergarten, beer garden, Oktoberfest, barrel, full-bodied, thin-bodied, publican, yeast, Ninkasi, palate, punt, chill, binge

bock, maibock, doppelbock, eisbock, weizenbock, altbier, berliner weisse, dortmunder export, dunkel, gose, helles, kellerbier, kolsch, marzen, pale lager, roggenbier, schwarzbier, smoked beer, wheat beer, zoigl, dubbel, Flanders red ale, lambicger, framboise, gueuze, kriek, oud bruin, quadrupel, saison, tripel, witbier, brown ale, Indian pale ale, mild ale, old ale, porter, Scotch ale, stout, amber ale, American pale ale, American wild ale, cream ale, ice lager, Kentucky common beer, pumpkin ale, steam beer, baltic porter, biere de garde, copper ale, corn beer, grodziskie, gratzer, hard soda, Irish red ale, light beer, malt beer, millet beer, pale ale, pilsner, rye beer, sahti, small beer, sour beer, Vienna lager, trappist, sommelier, root beer, apple beer, birch beer, ginger beer, horehound beer, oatmeal stout, sake, shandy, brown ale, posset, schankbier, spruce beer, weissbier, weizen beer, hefe, hefeweizen, Lowenbrau, Hamm, Arrogant Bastard, Fat Tire, Haffenreffer, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Nastro Azzurro

amarillo, cascade, centennial, chinook, citra, crystal, CTZ, fuggle, Golding, lambic, magnum, mosaic, Mt. Hood, Northern Brewer, nugget, Perle, Saaz, Simcoe, Tardif De Bourgogne, Williamette, cluster

Coors, Brahma, Harbin, Heineken, Yanjing, Skol, Budweiser, Bud, Bud Light, Tsingtao, Snow, Carlsberg, Tuborg, Leffe, Elysian, Stella Artois, Bass, Miller, Peroni, Meantime, Radegast, Foster’s, Molson Coors, Labatt, Bintang, Goose Island, Tecate, Amstel, Birra Moretti, Four Peaks, Kronenbourg 1664, Corona, Sam Adams, Guinness, Yuengling, Efes Pilsen, Dogfish Head, San Miguel, Becks, Heady Topper, Kingfisher, Harveys, Hoegaarden, Dos Equis, Sierra Nevada, Theakston, Mikkeller, Schlitz

steep, wort, mashout, lautering, lauter, lauter tun, mash tun, tun, mash, ferment, fermentation, turbidimeter, nephelometer, sparge, sparging, tannin, pH, chaff, husk, starch, starches, sugar, enzymes, dry hopping, sprouted, molasses, carbon dioxide, carbonation, grist, gluten, microbrewery, kegger, barm, leavening, barrelage, all-malt, amber, anaerobic, black malt, bung, caramel, dextrin, ester, filter, fining, malt-extract, priming, tart, milling, nitrogen, phenols, gruit, mugwort, oast house, kiln

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