Beer Tattoos?

[HarkJohnny]

anyone have one?

I was wasting my lunch break scouring the web but everything I've found that's "beer" related is some schmuck with a GIANT miller logo on his back or Coors and AB crap and other generic cartoony images.

I've (for years) thought of getting a tattoo but it absolutely MUST mean something personally to me. I've considered a number of ideas but nothing has really stood out other than some hop vines or my kids names or my nickname and such.

So, I'm just curious is there's any other crazies out there with such a thing.

TIA!

[newportstorm]

Plenty out there.

I've seen some brewery logos - Newport Storm will/used to offer anyone with the brewery logo on a prominent area (arm, shoulder, etc) a free sixer of beer per month for life. Only one person, besides the head brewer, has taken them up on the offer.
http://www.newportstorm.com/inetcontest-rules.asp

Someone really loves Smutty (bottom of page):
http://www.smuttynose.com/pages/globalsmutty.html

I know I've seen some Hop Devil ink somewhere online.

I've also seen someone with the Orval brewery logo:

http://home.scarlet.be/bierliefhebber/Jpegs/Orval%20logo.jpg

My guess is Stone's gargoyle design has found its way onto many human canvasses.

Know any artistic types? See if they can incorporate something beery into your family crest. Or do something more interesting with a brewery logo.

[Seymour]

Pass. I'd rather slowly poison my liver with beer than with Hepatitis C.;)

[AnDrew Brew]

Originally posted by HarkJohnny

I was wasting my lunch break scouring the web but everything I've found that's "beer" related is some schmuck with a GIANT miller logo on his back or Coors and AB crap and other generic cartoony images.



To scar yourself for life with such filthy folly...embarassing. I mean if you're gonna go the yard, may as well get a giant tattoo of a giant glass of brew. :)


I have pondered the beer tattoo for a while. I have always thought a set of beer glasses of different beer hues, with some hop vines flowing around them would be pretty far-out. You could even expand on that and probably have a good tattoo that actually means something to you.

The promotion to get a tattoo of a brewery and get a 6 pack a week for life, almost tempting. I think of the comfort of knowing that there will always be a sixer of beer waiting on your doorstep on Fridays. )

[newportstorm]

Originally posted by AnDrew Brew
The promotion to get a tattoo of a brewery and get a 6 pack a week for life, almost tempting. I think of the comfort of knowing that there will always be a sixer of beer waiting on your doorstep on Fridays. )

Per month. And you gotta pick it up at the brewery. And you can't show up once every 3 years and ask for 9 cases of beer.

Gotta read the fine print.

[fretlessman71]

I'd almost consider that tattoo if Odell or New Belgium made a similar offer.



ALMOST. ;)

[chazwicke]

Don't do it. I'm pretty sure this generation of tattooed people will regret having them as they grow old.

[M.K. Jeeves]

Here's my tattoo, "Boss de plane de plane"!
Thank you, and goodnight.

[kilted brewer]

In one of the episodes of Beer Nutz on INHD they showed a brewer that had a tatoo of a Mash Tun, hops, and maybe a paddle. Didn't look outstanding, but a great idea.

My worry with trying to do hops is they will come out too flowery. But a beer themed tattoo is on my list of possible new ink projects.

[HarkJohnny]

Originally posted by chazwicke
Don't do it. I'm pretty sure this generation of tattooed people will regret having them as they grow old.

some maybe, especially for a stupid tattoo that didn't mean anything or wasn't well thought through.

but for most they are just another expression of their personality. it's certainly not for everyone.

I think this will be a good exercise in putting pencil to paper. something I haven't done in *quite* awhile.

[Randybo]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by HarkJohnny
[B]some maybe, especially for a stupid tattoo that didn't mean anything or wasn't well thought through.

For myself the only tatoo i have is my family crest, something i thought about for quite a while before i did it. If i get anything else it would also be something that has a lot of personal meaning.

[zoom6zoom]

I've never had the slightest urge to get a tatoo. I figure the government is gonna make us get a bar code tatooed on our foreheads sooner or later anyway.

[Texas Tornado]

Came within a hairs breadth of getting that old "Busch" Stallion on my right shoulder when I was 19.... Got something else instead. Wow, thanks for bringing back foggy memories!

---Adam

[newportstorm]

Originally posted by chazwicke
Don't do it. I'm pretty sure this generation of tattooed people will regret having them as they grow old.

Not everyone. I do know some that have video game characters and similar disasters, but something that is personal and unique will stand the test of time.

Pick a design. Sit on it for 6 months (minimum) - I waited a year.
If you still like the artwork and it still has meaning to you, get the ink done. If not, move on.

[AnDrew Brew]

Originally posted by newportstorm
Not everyone. I do know some that have video game characters and similar disasters, but something that is personal and unique will stand the test of time.

Pick a design. Sit on it for 6 months (minimum) - I waited a year.
If you still like the artwork and it still has meaning to you, get the ink done. If not, move on.

Excellent Strategy.

[DecoJuicer]

I almost got one when I was 18 years old. I was going to get a Jolly Roger flag on my chest, which was still hairless at the time, but I backed out at the last minute. Good thing too, because I look like a bear now.

I waited until I was 23 instead, and I got an American flag on my right arm with the words "Sevare et Defendere"(Serve and Defend) scrolled across it.

I still want to get 2 more done, ut I am waiting until I lose some weight. I want to get a raven on each shoulder blade with one of my childrens names under each one. It comes from Norse mythology. Oden had 2 ravens that would fly around the world and gather news, then they would come home and land on his shoulders and tell him of all of the things happening. I guess that speaks volumes about my ego.:D

By the way Zoom, I know a couple of people that already have barcodes on there neck.

[Randybo]

Right now i am looking for a good design to put my daughters name on my arm. But it has to be just the right design to fit her and me. So when i find it i will know it but i will take all the time it requires it is not something i want to rush into.

[HarkJohnny]

Originally posted by newportstorm
Not everyone. I do know some that have video game characters and similar disasters, but something that is personal and unique will stand the test of time.

Pick a design. Sit on it for 6 months (minimum) - I waited a year.
If you still like the artwork and it still has meaning to you, get the ink done. If not, move on.

good idea.

and makes me think of the fool who got a big Woody Woodpecker on his calf in high school. dumbA$$!

[surfadelic23]

I like the idea of a ring of hops around the bicep instead of some tribal art from a tribe which nobody in the continental U.S. (including the tatooey)actually belongs to...

[Randybo]

Originally posted by HarkJohnny
good idea.

and makes me think of the fool who got a big Woody Woodpecker on his calf in high school. dumbA$$!


In some places Woody Woodpecker is seen as a white supremacist tatoo so it could get you in trouble in the wrong crowd

[zoom6zoom]

Deco, I met a guy who had a barcode tat'd on his forearm. He was trying to get a job at Thoroughbreds as a bartender and they wouldn't hire anyone with visible tatoos. So something else to think about - it may affect you getting the job you want.

I guess one of the other things that's always put me off was a stint in the hospital long ago - I had a roommate who was heavily tatoo'd, only in his 20's, and had AIDS contracted from unclean needles. I realize that's supposed to be a thing of the past, but still seems an unnecessary risk.

[Randybo]

The Aids could have been any type of unclean needles including drugs or prison tatoo's with thier homemade needles and pen ink or any number of other things they use. If you want a quality tatoo go to the shop look around and ask questions if the shop is messy what else are they messing up so go to a real professional that only uses new sterilized needles and breaks them when he is finished with a tattoo and you wont have that worry anyway. Just take your time and find what really means something to you rather than something that will mean nothing in a year's time and you will be sorry you had done. they are a lot harder and more expensive to remove than put on

[DecoJuicer]

When I got mine, I looked all around the shop, asked them questions about the autoclave to see if they knew how to use it(I don't know a damn thing about them, but they were very confident in their answers, so I figured that they knew what they were talking about). I wouldn't get mine done from some back alley guy, or a friend who "does awesome work".

The other thing that you should always check is how they load their needles. They could clean equipment and break all the needles they have, but if they are dipping them right back into the ink that they used on they last guy it won't do much good. They gy that did mine showed me how they used disposable ink cups and any leftover ink got thrown in the garbage. I watched a couple of other guys work before I got mine, and all of the artists in the shop did the same thing.

[zoom6zoom]

The Aids could have been any type of unclean needles including drugs or prison tatoo's with thier homemade needles and pen ink or any number of other things they use

Not in this case though. This kid had never been to jail and was not a drug user. Got all his paint from supposedly 'professional' artists, but this was before the disposable needle days. I shared a hospital room with him for several weeks. Pretty sad, he had a wife and two young kids as well.

[Chris St Mary]

If you're going to get ANY tatoo, the aforementioned idea of waiting and mulling it over for 6 months or a year is VERY GOOD ADVICE.
I got a few when I was young and stupid and in the Navy and now, at 48, I kinda wish I had had that advice back then. I don't hate them but they kinda bring out things in others that I'd rather not have to deal with. Nothing offensive or vulgar but just "original".
If anyone remembers "The Saint" with Roger Moore from back in the '60's, it started and ended with a stick figure with a halo over it's head. Being as my nickname on my hockey team when I was growing up was "Saint", I figured it would work. It does, to a point but it also gets some weird responses.
My own fault. I was young, drunk, stupid and in the Navy. Now I'm old, sober, stupid and not in the Navy. 'Simon" is still there and as stated earlier, it's not cheap to have a tat removed.

[DecoJuicer]

It's generally cheaper to have them covered than it is to have them removed.

[dparsons]

Originally posted by chazwicke
Don't do it. I'm pretty sure this generation of tattooed people will regret having them as they grow old.


Just picture the tatoo on somebody 55 years old and then realize it might be you that is 55 with that tatoo.

[wild]

Originally posted by Randybo
In some places Woody Woodpecker is seen as a white supremacist tatoo so it could get you in trouble in the wrong crowd
You're kidding? What would Woody have to do with white supremacy? Oh! Don't tell me, Peck-A-Wood? That would be a moronic fit.

[Randybo]

Youv'e got to remember who is using it MORONS

[zoom6zoom]

it's not cheap to have a tat removed.

I can get you a good deal on a belt sander...


Ouch.

[HarkJohnny]

don't know anything about this stuff but i recently heard it advertised on local radio... and loved the name so it stuck in my head


http://www.wreckingbalm.com/

[hooky]

Originally posted by HarkJohnny
don't know anything about this stuff but i recently heard it advertised on local radio... and loved the name so it stuck in my head


http://www.wreckingbalm.com/

One of the warnings: Do not use on children under 12 without doctor supervision.

How many kids are commemorating the Little League Championship with some ink?

[Hog's Breath]

I got a tat when I was 18 or 19. I got Whinny the Pooh on my ankle. And if I had to do it over again I would not do it cause, well like stated before it doesn't suit me now. "Pooh or Poohbear" was my nickname as a kid. But not now. I still like to watch Whinny the Pooh but just the thought of being branded for life makes me uneasy! Oh well, just keep livin with it!

[Texas Tornado]

My back hair finally covered mine up!

[Chris St Mary]

Don't kid! That's almost how it used to be done. It's called Dermabrasion (sic). They would literally "sand" the tatoo off. O.K., it wasn't sand but they would use a surgical abrasive and it was pretty much the same thing.
Now they do it with lasers and it's much less invasive (and less painful).
Still not cheap. I checked out a place in Niagara Falls, Ontario and they wanted $200 per visit and said it would take anywhere from 3-10 visits. Granted, it was in Canadian money but the exchange isn't that great right now.

[Chris St Mary]

As for dparsons comment about a 55 year old's tatoo and how it looks,.....
Just think what it's going to look like in about 45-50 years in a nursing home with how popular piercings and tatoos are with the 20 somethings. It will be interesting, if nothing else.

[dparsons]

Originally posted by Chris St Mary
As for dparsons comment about a 55 year old's tatoo and how it looks,.....
Just think what it's going to look like in about 45-50 years in a nursing home with how popular piercings and tatoos are with the 20 somethings. It will be interesting, if nothing else.

I didn't want to picture that.

[Otis_The_Drunk]

Originally posted by Seymour
Pass. I'd rather slowly poison my liver with beer than with Hepatitis C.;)

You are assuming that tattoo shops are dirty.
The needles are put in an autoclave to be sterilized. Hepatitis C can not live at the temperatures put out by an autoclave.
Where ever you are getting your info about tattoo shops is wrong.
Also when you get a tattoo each needle is individually packaged.
The tattoo industry is one that has cleaned up it's act and has done so since AIDS was first known about in the 1970s.
When people get sick from tattoos it's usually from a back yard, prison style tattoo. The kind of tattoo gun that uses a cassette motor and a guitar string.

If your going to dis an industry, please know what you are talking about.

[Seymour]

Originally posted by Otis_The_Drunk
You are assuming that tattoo shops are dirty.
The needles are put in an autoclave to be sterilized. Hepatitis C can not live at the temperatures put out by an autoclave.
Where ever you are getting your info about tattoo shops is wrong.
Also when you get a tattoo each needle is individually packaged.
The tattoo industry is one that has cleaned up it's act and has done so since AIDS was first known about in the 1970s.
When people get sick from tattoos it's usually from a back yard, prison style tattoo. The kind of tattoo gun that uses a cassette motor and a guitar string.

If your going to dis an industry, please know what you are talking about.

Ouch. Didn't mean to touch a nerve, Otis. I thought the winking emoticon was letting all know my comment was tongue in cheek. Didn't mean to offend.

[dparsons]

Originally posted by Seymour
Ouch. Didn't mean to touch a nerve, Otis. I thought the winking emoticon was letting all know my comment was tongue in cheek. Didn't mean to offend.

Otis has a tatoo of his mother over his heart. He's kind of touchy about it. ;)

[SoxyinMO]

Originally posted by HarkJohnny
some maybe, especially for a stupid tattoo that didn't mean anything or wasn't well thought through.

but for most they are just another expression of their personality. it's certainly not for everyone.

I think this will be a good exercise in putting pencil to paper. something I haven't done in *quite* awhile.

Agreed. My first tat is a moon & star on my breast. I've had it for ten years and have never regretted it. It is a symbol that has cropped up time & again in my life & kind of typifies me & my husband. I'm the moon (silver) he's the star (gold). I wanted it for 10 years before I actually did it.

My second I got is the Red Sox logo on my ankle. I got that after the Sox won the series. 'Nuff said. ;)

My daughter got the same advice Chris St. Mary put up : get a picture of what you want. Carry it with you in your wallet, or put it on your mirror, somewhere you'll see it often for a full year. If you STILL want to put it on you after that, you'll probably NOT be disappointed.

Oh, but to answer your question : No, I never really considered something beery.

[Mill Rat]

I've had work, hobbies and chores give me enough permanent "artwork" (such as when I half-sawed off my right thumb or fell 20 feet and broke my fall with my face) and holes (such as a 3/8" giude pin for a stamping press through my left foot) that I have no inclination to intentionally add to the collection.

[Hog's Breath]

Originally posted by Mill Rat
I've had work, hobbies and chores give me enough permanent "artwork" (such as when I half-sawed off my right thumb or fell 20 feet and broke my fall with my face) and holes (such as a 3/8" giude pin for a stamping press through my left foot) that I have no inclination to intentionally add to the collection.

OUCH!!

[fretlessman71]

Originally posted by Mill Rat
I've had work, hobbies and chores give me enough permanent "artwork" (such as when I half-sawed off my right thumb or fell 20 feet and broke my fall with my face) and holes (such as a 3/8" giude pin for a stamping press through my left foot) that I have no inclination to intentionally add to the collection. Dude, you need to find a safer line of work. Ever thought about Alaskan crab fishing?

[dparsons]

Some people are accident prone and will hurt themselves working as a pillow salesman.

[fretlessman71]

If you've ever choked to death on a down feather, you'll realize just how funny that WASN'T.




















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