My Conundrum....

I am really excited about labeling my beer and I have always loved the old brewerys traditional labels (think Jax, Pearl, Dixie) You know the type that when you think of the brewery you can see the label. Iconic I guess you would call it. And they never had funny names and trendy labels. I like that but then again I know the thing now is to have some witty name or whatever and I have ideas for some good ones (Dumb Blonde, Klone-dike Amber, Testic-Ale 'Nut Brown' LOL) but I really like the more traditional approach. BUT I know I will probably make several varieties of any type of brew over time and would like to distinguish them. I was thinking maybe a Number or something.

Blanchard Brewing #101 India Pale Ale, Old 97 Amber, etc. All with the same basic label maybe a color change. That way I could have several say IPA's or whate have you but with different recipes and just number them differently.

Opinions?

I don't tend to have more than one choice of beer for each style on hand at a time. But...I like your approach if I was to do so. Numbering them is good. I just have a simple logo made up which says the brewery name and underneath in smaller font it says the type of beer. I don't usually bother coming up with fancy names unless something comes to mind without me having to think about it too much.

It all depends on you, but you can number them by batch number, year, or whatever you want. Personally, I'd go by year, since I don't usually brew the same beer twice in one year.