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Very nice. I was naming beers after Beatles songs for awhile. Any Time At All would be a session IPA. Back in the USSR would be a RIS, etc. I did some labels but Iām not as advanced with Photoshop as many here.
Iām not much of a graphic designer. I use Beer Labelizer, which is pretty much āfill in the blankā. Itās a good fit for someone with my level of expertise.
Some more Beatles labels. I made Old Brown Shoe an English Brown but its the only Beatles song I can find with āoldā in the title so that probably should be a barleywine or an old ale.
I make them from scratch in Photoshop. I search the internet for art I like and download it and work with it,
These are just photos of paper labels I have laying on a table. I was using these things called Fastlabel which are basically just plastic shrink wraps that go over the bottom 2/3 of the bottle and you print your label on any paper you want and put it inside before shrinking them down. Once shrunk down they are waterproof and I like them. The best part is the labels are not held on with glue so no more scraping and peeling. Just rip off the plastic and the label falls off. I havenāt been able to find them for awhile though - seems like shops stopped carrying them or they are not in business anymore or something.
I make them from scratch in Photoshop. I search the internet for art I like and download it and work with it,
These are just photos of paper labels I have laying on a table. I was using these things called Fastlabel which are basically just plastic shrink wraps that go over the bottom 2/3 of the bottle and you print your label on any paper you want and put it inside before shrinking them down. Once shrunk down they are waterproof and I like them. The best part is the labels are not held on with glue so no more scraping and peeling. Just rip off the plastic and the label falls off. I havenāt been able to find them for awhile though - seems like shops stopped carrying them or they are not in business anymore or something.
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I would advise against using the little Avery circles. I can say from experience they fall off all the time. I used to use those, had a template to print the beer and the date on them. Before that I used to write cryptic codes on the bottle caps with a sharpie then wonder what the codes meant later.
The little Avery dots and cryptic cap codes are what made me want to start doing labels in the first place.
One thought I had was to do similar to what you are describing and create a generic or standard label with blank spaces on it to write in what the beer is and possibly the born on date. Then it will look all cool with your handwritten batch info on each bottle like they do with some limited edition stuff.
doogster
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What I really like here is how simple this is. Yeah there is no fancy art that catches your eye. But there will also be nothing to spend time scraping or peeling off. Iād even venture to say the way those are tied, those could probably be taken off and re-used if you were to brew the same beer again.
The one thing I would want to do is reinforce the hole somehow where the string goes through. They sell those little reinforcement things we all know the slang name for that go over the holes in punched paper. I would be putting one of those on each side.
But this is just great and for us the purpose is just to know whatās in all the bottles. Weāre not selling beer so who needs eye catching art and merchandising? Often the simplest solutions are the best ones.
Yes thats it.
Brews and Blues
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What do people use to design these great labels? Also are any of them very cheap to free programs? 
I spend enough on this hobby as is.
I spend enough on this hobby as is.
I use Photoshop Elements, older version on an older mac. Took time to learn how to use many of the tricks and features and it has options I still donāt know how to use. Iāve been playing with it for a long time and Iām not a Photoshop expert but I get by with it.
What do people use to design these great labels? Also are any of them very cheap to free programs?
Canva.com
There's a free version and a paid version.
I've been using gimp which is free.
Inkscape is also free.
Brew on
Brew on
Thatās what I use.Inkscape is also free.
Brew on
The Beer Labelizer basic version is free. The premium upgrade is 5 bucks. I think itās worth it. It adds more label templates that you can add your own images to. It makes creating a label no more difficult than attaching an image to a post on this board.
doogster
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What do people use to design these great labels? Also are any of them very cheap to free programs?
Love your Brews and Blues "logo".... Go BLUES!!
Brews and Blues
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Wish I could take credit. I found that online somewhere at some point and loved it. One logo for my two favorite things in life! Go Blues!
Latest in my Beatles series, "Baby's In Black" Dry Stout
I put labels on the dry stout and an Irish Red today
Bottling my Bullwinkle Brown today
For my new wheat beer. Anyone knowledgeable about farm machinery will understand.
The L2 was about as good as it got in its day, but Iām glad we have machines with fewer moving parts to maintain today.
I remember when my dad and a neighbor we harvested with each got one in the very late ā80s. We thought we were big farmers then.
The back label for that.
The back label for that.
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One of mine. Basic ***** - Pumpkin Spiced Latte Oktoberfest. QR code pulls up my beer review video for it. Let me know what you think!
After a hard drive crash took out the previous label, I finally got back to this. Funny things is a case of wine is already gone; less labels to print and stick!
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Newest Double NEIPA Label..... very late season storm came in a crushed the Magnolia on me, Which truly is a shame as I finally came to a time in my life that I appreciated how beautiful it was!
I clicked "thumbs up" because there's not a crying option.
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