Duff Beer
| Type | Beer |
| Location | Springfield, USA |
| Featured in | The Simpsons Family Guy |
Duff Beer is Homer Simpson's favorite brand of beer in The Simpsons. The brand has it's own mascot, Duffman. Fudd Beer is the main competitor of Duff Beer.
Variants
- Duff ZERO (Alcohol-free Beer)[1]
- Duff 200 ("Nothing But BOOZE!")[2]
- Duff Adequate[3]
- Duff Amber Fire
- Duff Basement
- Duff Dark[4]
- Duff Dry[5]
- Duff Lite[6]
- Duff Extra Cold[7]
- Duff Stout ("The Beer That Made Ireland Famous")[8]
- Duff Blue
- Duff Red
- Duff Ice
- Duff Draft
- Duff Malt
- Duff Lager
- Duff Christmas Ale
- Duff Peanut Butter Lager
- Duff Blue Ribbon
- New McDuff Ale
- Duff Gingerbread
- Duff Tinsel
- Duff Holo Beer
- Duff Gordo
- Canadian Duff avec Codeine
- El Duffo, Cuban Duff. "El Duffo o Muerte!"[9]
- Henry K. Duff's Private Reserve[10]
- Lady Duff (The same beer as regular Duff, but in a pink can with a metallic magenta lid.)[11]
- Raspberry Duff[12]
- Tartar Control Duff[13]
Competing Brands
- Fudd Beer A rival to Duff that is popular with less-sophisticated drinkers[14]. It has a yellow-over-brown label, a longhorn steer skull on a red shield as its logo, and the text in thick black letters. When Homer mentions Fudd, Moe Szyslak remarks, "Fudd? I thought they took that off the market after all those hillbillies went blind."[15] The version served in Shelbyville[16] uses the same font and label as Duff Beer.
- Hi-Braü Lager[17]
- Red Tick Beer ("Suck One Dry")[18]
- Skittlebrau ("The Beer With Candy In It")[19]
Trivia
- Real brands of beer with the name Duff Beer have been created in a number of countries without permission or consent from its original creator, Matt Groening, and has resulted in legal battles with varying results.
- In Stargate Atlantis, episode "Search and Rescue": Sheppard asks an as yet unseen rescue party whether they would prefer "Duff Beer or Oprah Ale" as a reward.
References
- ↑ Mentioned in Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment (Season 8, Episode 18). The brewers of Duff decide to be compliant with the local liquor ban. They make a non-alcoholic version of Duff because they believed their customers would still drink it for its taste. They soon had to shutter the brewery.
- ↑ Mentioned in American History X-cellent (Season 21 Episode 17). The opening credits show a billboard for the new 200-proof grain-alcohol version of Duff.
- ↑ Shown in A Tree Grows in Springfield (Season 24, Episode 6)
- ↑ Mentioned in Duffless(Season 4, Episode 16)
- ↑ Mentioned in Duffless(Season 4, Episode 16). In Lisa the Greek (Season 3, Episode 14), Homer and Barney watch the Duff Bowl animated Superbowl halftime feature between Duff and Duff Dry
- ↑ Mentioned in Duffless(Season 4, Episode 16)
- ↑ Mentioned in The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson (Season 9, Episode 1)
- ↑ Mentioned in The Great Louse Detective (Season 14, Episode 6)
- ↑ Shown on a billboard in Cuba in The Trouble with Trillions (Season 9, Episode 20). The slogan is a parody of ¡Patria o muerte! ("Fatherland or Death!")
- ↑ Shown in "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" (Season 3, Episode 11).
- ↑ First mentioned in Duffless(Season 4, Episode 16). A pink case of Lady Duff is shown in the episode My Big Fat Geek Wedding (Season 15, Episode 17). A promotional bottle-opener for the Simpsons TV show was in the shape of a classic bottle of Lady Duff. It had a similar red label, but was decorated with a scattering of daisies and the word "Lady" was in fancy cursive text.
- ↑ Mentioned in Duffless(Season 4, Episode 16)
- ↑ Mentioned in Duffless(Season 4, Episode 16)
- ↑ First shown in Colonel Homer (Season 3, Episode 20).
- ↑ Dialogue from Colonel Homer (Season 3, Episode 20).
- ↑ Shown in Lemon of Troy(Season 6, Episode 24)
- ↑ Mentioned in Mayored to the Mob (Season 10, Episode 9) Moe offers Mayor Quimby and Homer Hi-Braüs as a bribe.
- ↑ Mentioned in The Springfield Files (Season 8, Episode 10). The subtle undertaste is provided by having dogs swim in the beer vats.
- ↑ First mentioned in Bart Star (Season 9, Episode 6). Homer asks Apu for a six-pack of Skittlebrau. Apu says it doesn't exist and that Homer must have dreamed it. Homer buys a six-pack of beer and a bag of Skittles Seen for sale at the 33¢ Store in Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo (Season 10, Episode 23).