Beers from different breweries often can have the same names. Obvious examples are the ubiquitous Ale, Bitter, Best, Best Bitter, Blonde, Dark Mild, Gold, Mild, IPA, Original, Porter, Special, Stout and Summer Ale, but there are also more unusual names cropping up in more than one brewery: Against the Grain (Oulton, Wold Top); Amarillo (Crouch Vale, Milk Street); Apollo (Black Hole, Buntingford); Apprentice (Wibblers, Wizard); Black Bull (Ossett, Theakston); Black Gold (Cairngorm, CopperDragon); Black Jack (Holden's, Old Mill); Black Pearl (Milestone, Wooden Hand); Blonde Bombshell (Old Cannon, Houston); Brewers Gold (Crouch Vale, Pictish); Bullion (Old Mill, Nottingham); Challenger (Buntingford, Barum, Kingstone); Cherry Stout (Bartrams, Saltaire); Copper Ale (Hook Norton, Palmers); Crusader (Milestone, Empire); Dark (Brains, Fuzzy Duck); Dark Star (Litton, Barum); Decadence (Brewster's, Oldershaw); Double Hop (Cwmbran, Robinsons); Dreadnought (Chalk Hill, Nottingham); Eclipse (Blindmans, Brew Company); Endeavour (Cropton, Saffron); Equinox (Everards, Bowland, Atlas); Excelsior (Ossett, Uncle Stuart's); Ferryman (Exeter, Topsham & Exminster); Fireside (Greene King, Black Country); Fool's Gold (Shardlow, Welton's); Fruit Bat (B & T, Green Jack); Gold Rush (Harviestoun, Prospect); Gold Standard (Freeminer, Keystone); Golden Brown (Butts, Hydes); Golden Plover (Allendale, Buntingford); Golden Valley (Scattor Rock, Breconshire); Gone Fishing (Green Jack, Oulton); Green Man (Bartrams, Windsor Castle); Grim Reaper (Keltek, Offa's Dyke); Honey Ale (Blackfriars. Fat Cat); Honey Mild (Dark Tribe, Iceni); Honey Pot (Old Bear, Coach House); Hophead (Brewster's, Dark Star); Icarus (Blindmans, Milton); Iron Horse (Goddards, Hepworth); The Leveller (Springhead, Tydd Steam); Light Oak (Weatheroak, Mayflower); Lionheart (Hampshire, Milestone); Moonlight (Arkell's, Grafter's); Natterjack (Frog Island, Old Chimneys); Natural Blonde (Harviestoun, Bath Ales); Nelson's Blood (Fox, Nelson); Nero (Derventio, Milton); New Model Ale (City of Cambridge, Ufford); Oblivion (Oakham, Peakstones Rock); Original Bitter (Hydes, Abbey Bells, Blackawton); Pioneer (Prospect, Mayfields); Pure Gold (Hanby, Purity); Red (Bristol Beer Factory, Hawkshead, Yetman's); Red Rock (Dark Tribe, Red Rock); Redwood (Burton Old Cottage, Grain, Weatheroak, Woodlands); Slipway (Captain Cook, Newby Wyke); Speedwell Bitter (Morton, Townes); Spring Ale (Burton Bridge, King, Wickwar); Spring Tide (Teignworthy, Blackfriars); Stag (Cairngorm, Exmoor); Star Gazer (Black Hole, Yeovil); Summer Pale Ale (Acorn, Whittingtons); Summer Solstice (Dark Star, Derventio, Wells & Young's); Sunbeam (Battledown, Wirksworth); Sunrise (Bristol Beer Factory, Oulton); Sunset (Captain Cook, Arran); Tempest (Winter's, Atlas); Thin Ice (Sadler's, Elgood's); Top Banana (Burton Bridge, Caledonian); Trade Winds (Cairngorm, Tunnel); Trumpeter (Strathaven, Swan on the Green); Welsh Black (Bullmastiff, Heart of Wales); White Gold (White Park; White); Winter Ale (Bank's, Jennings); XB (Theakston, Batemans); XXXX (Hydes, Spectrum); Yellowhammer (Black Isle, O'Hanlons); Young Pretender (All Gates, Isle of Skye); Yule Fuel (Grafton, Spectrum).
This doesn't mean they taste the same (or anything like) of course. For example, here's Blackfriars Spring Tide:
and Teignworthy Spring Tide:
