Marking bottles

Guinness · 10-29-2009, 06:45 PM

I'm curious how people are marking their bottles to track which batch is in each. With 3 or 4 on the go, it's pretty easy to mix them up once they're in the fridge.

With glass bottles and crown caps, I've been using a sharpie to mark the cap. With PET bottles, different colour elastics around the necks because I reuse the caps, and don't want to mark them up.

Any other ideas?

**JVD_X** · 10-29-2009, 06:48 PM

Like you - sharpie on the cap.

I had looked into using wine bottle neck labels sprayed with the blackboard paint.

Windigstadt · 10-29-2009, 06:56 PM

I don't bottle much any more, but I'm somewhat graphically inclined so what I did was buy sheets of 1" round label stickers and I'd print a logo for the beer on the sticker sheets. They're a hair bigger than the bottle caps themselves but close enough for government work, and for me it was more fun than using a sharpie.

**GoldMiner** · 10-29-2009, 07:29 PM

I label mine but I have no life.

**ChshreCat** · 10-29-2009, 07:33 PM

I'm a sharpiecapper as well.

MrVagabond · 10-29-2009, 07:44 PM

I just sharpiecapped my first batch. I'll probably just continue to do that for a while. Maybe down the line a bit, I'll make some labels when I'm gifting, but not until I'm sure I've got a decent brew to slap it on!

**jkarp** · 10-29-2009, 07:45 PM

Painter's tape and a sharpie.

Like this :-)

Jmac00 · 10-29-2009, 08:16 PM

Dollar store has 'labels' that are small round stickers....about 5 or 6 different colors in each package, and there's always the white ones too...i use them, or just a sharpie.

**arturo7** · 10-29-2009, 08:21 PM

Sticky dots and a Sharpie.

**Hammy71** · 10-29-2009, 09:56 PM

Little white circle stickers from Staples. Sometimes I can talk the wife into printing me out some... But usually.... I keep my bottled brews in beer cases. I write on the case with a sharpie..(Date and brew). When I rotate a couple to the fridge (take one out...put one in...I keep about 3 of each in the beer fridge...) I just ID them with a sharpie on the cap......