I'm glad to present you Krampus Triple, the new triple ale produced by Michela, my homebrewer girlfriend.
In recent days, trasforming myself in a kind of new Aristide Torchia, while I was trying to find the graphics solution for this label, I came across this cute, little boozer devil. The Legend of Krampus has become a tradition over the centuries for the German-speaking peoples, and it is linked to the Saint Nicholas feast which is celebrated on December 5, but even more anciently it appears to be related to the winter solstice celebration. The Krampus were half men half goat; they, disguised with demonic masks, roamed the streets of the town to scare the citizens, in order to rob them of winter supplies. Legend says that one of them was the Devil himself, who took advantage of that situation for hiding his presence. St. Nicholas had to intervene in order to exorcise the demon, and since that moment, during the celebration of his feast, St. Nicholas rewards good children with candy, while the bad ones are beaten by the Krampus, who, led in chains to contain their exuberance, accompany the saint during the event. Another legend instead remembers the story of Boogeyman, who terrorizes children by forcing them to behave well: This legend tells us that the Krampus kidnap children who have been nasty just before holiday season.
The creation process
By doing a little iconographic research and by letting me be inspired by those various legends, I drew this little devil. He can't kidnap anybody (except me!) , we can clearly say that because his agenda is fallen to the ground, and because...he is visibly drunk! To accentuate his drunkenness, I also rotated the two "R" in the “Krampus Triple” writing. The Krampus is traditionally depicted with fingers, or with legs fitted with hooves. I even noticed that someone has depicted him with both solutions on two different legs maybe because of indecision, take a look here and laugh. My little devil is definitely half goat if we look to his horns and legs, while for the shape of the tail and the blue skin I was inspired by Nightcrawler, the demon-looking
X-Men who is moreover German, like Krampus. Probably the authors were inspired in their turn by the legend of Krampus when they conceived this character, so we can say that with my version of the devil I close the circle of references and citations.
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With
that said,
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merry Christmas and happy holydays!
Drink a toast with
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