One of Jason Buehler's favorite beer styles was black IPA, so when he worked behind the kettles at Oskar Blues several years ago, he and head brewer Juice Drapeau cooked one up called Home Skillet.
The name was a shout-out to rapper Flava Flav, who had used the term often in his "Flavor of Love" reality show from a few years earlier. "We said it around the brewery way more than necessary...and Jason started hanging a clock [Flava's trademark] and a skillet on the fermenter whenever we brewed Home Skillet," Drapeau remembers. "He worked his ass off, but never stopped making people laugh."