Show Us Your Label

Oops sorry. Those are really big.

Just worked up some basic labels for a few homebrews I'm taking to a Super Bowl Party. Nothing fancy, easy to cut out and apply. None of my co-workers have tasted many (if any) homebrews.

One more.

my growler label for my Techno Viking (Dreadnaught clone)

I brew with a group of buddies from my department at school. We are all geologists and enjoy a beer or two. So all our beers are geology themed.

So here they are so far.

Next.

Favorite subject in college was geology, wish I had listened to my professor and pursued it! Love the labels.

History is fun- this civil war cannon battery was located directly underneath the house that me and my buddies started brewing in in college. So we had to name a beer after it... after all, as a distributor once told us "have each beer tell a story." :

Here's my recent label.

Here's two more I did recently....



I print on brown paper bags so my designs are usually in B&W. I like clean and simple.

Gitmoe said:

Here's two more I did recently....

I print on brown paper bags so my designs are usually in B&W. I like clean and simple.

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I'd love to see a photo of these or similar printed on the brown paper bags and on the bottles. Sounds cool!

Pappers_ said:

I'd love to see a photo of these or similar printed on the brown paper bags and on the bottles. Sounds cool!

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Here's a wine bottle I did kind of recently to give you an idea...

Just labeled my latest brew. Peter Ped-ALE (the name of curious George in Danish is Peter pedal)

And here's one of those labels on a bottle. I didn't have any black caps sitting around. Thought I did... oh well. It's just for show.

Here is our brewery logo.......still fiddling with a few of our beer labels

Gitmoe said:

And here's one of those labels on a bottle. I didn't have any black caps sitting around. Thought I did... oh well. It's just for show.

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Fantabulous!

Gitmoe said:

And here's one of those labels on a bottle. I didn't have any black caps sitting around. Thought I did... oh well. It's just for show.

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Top Notch label...all of yours are. Better than most commercial labels

Thanks for the nice feedback everybody. I love design and especially packaging design. I'm actually doing some design work for a local brewery but they haven't let me do a label yet for commercial release. I'm hoping they let me soon. If anybody wants custom labels done for their own stuff I'm always available for freelance work.

Here is one I did for the batch that is to be bottled next week. If you don't know who Glen Hansard is, look him up. He is a musical genius.

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Here are two labels that the wifey did for me. She was an art major in college. Comes in handy once in a while.

Beer labels I tweaked to make stickers for a friend's band eons ago.





...and for my one of my homebrews

JStewBrews said:

...and for my one of my homebrews

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Awesome, J! That's the best WH Ale label I've seen yet. Looks fantastic.

I wish I was more pleased with how my batch came out (too much gypsum), because I'd definitely use this. (It'd go over well here in DC).

Way to go.

Cheers!

I just started working on labels since tripping over this thread a few weeks ago. Thanks for the inpiration everyone.

Here is what I have bottled so far...

I did steal a line from someone in the "Warnings", had to re-quote in my due to the truth of the matter...

I love all the labels. Great designs and brew names.

I brewed a few batches of beer 11-13 years ago, and I've only begun to brew once again after an 11 year hiatus. One batch is ready to drink now (an Irish red ale -- first all-grain batch), one is just bottled (a dry Irish stout), and one will be bottled this weekend (an non-Irish stout). I made labels for my early beers, and have put together some for the latter ones too.

One of my first labels in monochrome on red paper:



My favorite brew from years ago:



This one is also from years ago (thankfully, I saved a couple labels from years ago that I could scan):



The label I made for my current Irish Red Ale is simple:



The most recent Irish Stout:



The last one yet to be bottled:

The first two were done on an online label maker.

The rest were done using PowerPoint.

My 10 yo daughter did the leaf rubbing for the mead label.

So I really liked Gitmoe's labels and the printing on brown paper idea, so I basically "borrowed" it. Thanks for the inspiration.

IIpa label i did earlier in the year

JollyIsTheRoger said:

So I really liked Gitmoe's labels and the printing on brown paper idea, so I basically "borrowed" it. Thanks for the inspiration.

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Great label. Glad I could inspire. It's a fun idea for labels. Good luck getting those bags to go through your printer. It's not for the impatient... lol.

Gitmoe said:

Great label. Glad I could inspire. It's a fun idea for labels. Good luck getting those bags to go through your printer. It's not for the impatient... lol.

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That's tonights project

Kept changing ideas but this is what I came up with

I really like the paper bag idea as well. I'll probably borrow it as well...

tkline808 said:

Kept changing ideas but this is what I came up with

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Awesome. Hand drawn? On my phone right now. Makes it hard to see the details...

Thanks! No not hand drawn, used the basic PAINT program. Have a lack of skills and patience to learn the more sophisticated art programs

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Kept changing ideas but this is what I came up with

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"palate," not "pallete"

Otherwise, very nice label. Especially impressive from Paint!

Newest label.

I'm still waiting for my raspberry melomel to finish in seconday. I moved it onto it's second batch of raspberries, and fermetation started up again and has been going strong for the last two weeks! I just cut one of these out to check if I can manage it ... boy am i regretting that top bit!

My English Ale labels.

I've played around with a few ideas for this label, I think I'm happy with it for now
I haven't bottled the beer yet, it's currently fermenting, so hopefully it turns out well enough that I get to use the label


I've also whipped this one together, currently bottled, just waiting a little longer until I can enjoy!

First ones i'm made... After a few exploding beers and soaked boxes led to confusion. Now its basically a grab bag situation, never know what beer its gonna be.

Decided to make some for the newest batches. Black and white.. cause i ran outa color ink, and I'm snowed in via snowmaggedon.

Just put a Heavy Cream Ale into the carboy yesterday...