Real-life cocktails and Duff Beer from The Simpsons

If a few drinks make you animated, just imagine what a few drinks based on animation might do.

The Simpsons Archive Web site has noted the appearance of actual Duff Beer on shelves in Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium. Duff is the fictional beer brand, not seen on store shelves for close to a decade following 20th Century Fox’s successful lawsuits in 1996 and 2001 to have Duff Beer pulled from the market.

Here’s Hop Talk’s video review of the beer, which is apparently brewed in Belgium.

The review suggests that the stout “doesn’t taste bad, sometimes things can be gimmicky, but that actually tastes quite nice.”

Whether it’s a viral ad campaign or just another case of copyright infringement remains to be seen.