Wheat Names
Someone emailed a request to us to see the list of names that were submitted for the Windmill Wheat contest - so why not - here they are! Now you will see why we had such a tough time in deciding which one to use! We are shooting for an April release of the new Windmill Wheat packaging. More news then.
Wheat Names
Threshing Machine
Threshing Floor Agricultural aspect
Threshing Bee Wheat
10 Acre Wheat
20 Bushel Wheat Farming aspect
40 Kernel Wheat
Amber Wave Wheat - “America The Beautiful”
SWEAT Heart Wheat – make the chaff/stalks form a heart on the label
Farmer’s Daughter Wheat
Trivial Wheat – similar label with different Iowa trivia questions on them
Golden Wheat – reference to state capital dome, color of wheat field, state bird
Goldfinch Wheat – state bird, flag on label. Goldfinch sitting on wheat chaff
Wheaty Hayze’s Cap – IC resident Mike Gatens theft of Woody Hayes cap after game in Ohio. Cap is currently
in the Wig & Pen in Iowa City. Cap in clenched fist.
Hard White Tractor – iconic farm image of a tractor
Battleship Beer – USS Iowa
Van Wheat Belt - sound German and in honor of James Van Allen
The Peacemaker – USS Iowa with parts of Soviet coat of arms. “Our beer we prize, and our kegs we will
maintain”
Black Earth Wheat – wholesome, rich
Glacial Till WeitBier – Iowa’s geological history
Alluvial Plain Weizen – Iowa’s fertile soils.
True Inspiration Wheat – Amana’s founding & heritage
Ebenezer’s Witbier – Hess tradition that was seedspring of Amana
Gothic Wheat – “American Gothic” picture of American Gothic with them holding wheat sheaves
American Gothic Wheat – Iowan artist
John Deere Wheat – plant is in Waterloo
Deere Wheat
Prairie Wheat
Water Wheel Wheat – reference water wheel in the Millstream logo
Borlaug Wheat – Norman Borlaug was native Iowan who won Nobel Peace Prize for research in wheat
Heifer Weizen
Harvest Weizen
Harvest Wheat
Amish Harvest
Amish Harvest Weizen
Amish Harvest Wheat (We’re German, not Amish though!)
Amish Weizen
Amish Wheat
Homestead Wheat
Heartland Wheat
Four Season Wheat
Two Rivers Wheat – Iowa is between 2 big rivers
Homeland Wheat
Wise Wheat
Whenever Wheat
Wild Wheat – wild rose is our state flower
House Wheat – say it fast sounds like how sweet
Zuberweizen
Zuberfest
Wild Rose Wheat
Goldfinch Wheat
Wild Prairie Rose
Amana Wheat
Hangman’s Wheat – in honor of the hanging of Patrick O’Conner
Farm House Wheat
Hitchcock Wheat – underground railroad house
Sgt Floyd
Blood Run Wheat
Sundown Wheat
Whitewater Wheat
Lewis & Clark
Black Hawk Wheat
Mill Creek Wheat
Golden Circle
Cow War Wheat
Balloon Classic Wheat – Indianola balloon races
Seven Village Wheat – Amana is made up of 7 villages
River Valley Wheat – Iowa River goes through Amana
Amana Waves Wheat
Field of Dreams Wheat
White Oak Wheat – Oak trees in Iowa & sub development at the Amana Golf Course
Windmill Wheat
I-80 Wheat
Barbed Wire Wheat
Black Hawk Wheat
Buffalo Wheat
Harvest Wheat
Juggernaut
Prairie Wheat
Red Star
Redwing Wheat – redwing blackbirds in Iowa
Water Tower Wheat
1985 Wheat – year Millstream Brewery was founded