[red-beard]

What is the significance of your Pelican name? Is it just your name or is there a story behind yours?

Mine comes from my home-brewing days. A fellow local brewer used the Pirate theme. He liked to make a brown ale he called “Black Barnett’s Bilge Swill”. With the fact that I had brown hair/bald, but a red beard, he suggested that I should also go with the Pirate theme. Red Beard brewery!

And I made a modified blond ale with some red carapils/crystal malt to add a reddish hew to the beer. Red Beard’s Ale. I made a series of beers which had a red color component. I had a porter which looked almost black, but was actually red when you shown a light through it.

I started using the name on quite a few forums. Pelican already has a redbeard, so I became red-beard