huracán / OOR-ah-cahn
Getting cancelled by weather made me think of this. Hopefully NOT a weather word that will have any relevance to a trip to Mexico in February, but this has a double meaning — not only is it a fierce weather phenomenon, it’s also the name of a famous masked wrestler from the 50s, Huracán Ramírez. He wrestled for 30 years under the mask without losing it, moved lucha libre from the boring “actual wrestling” to the high-action style it has today, starred in five movies (!), and it was only a bad business deal that caused him to eventually willingly go to the ring one night and unmask, revealing his identity to the crowd and newspaper photographers. To this day, one of his signature moves, the huracánrana, still bears his name and is used by numerous wrestlers.
Our hazy IPA is named Huracán in honor of both the wrestler and the weather, and the mask on the label is inspired by Huracán Ramírez’s.