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"Who run Barleytown?"
Fantastic
"Who run Barleytown?"
Or guys? (I noticed the glory hole is brown)
I am keeping my labels primarily white and simple so I am not wasting a ton of ink to print them…
I used to have two on mine, one would link to the recipe. Now I just have one that when you scan it, it goes to the check in for it on Untappd.
(Both titles or pics are puns that would only be known to people pretty familiar with Japanese creatures)
My bigger beers that were worthy of labels.
We name the good ones after our dogs or their nicknames.
My 2c, give the dog his/her neck back on the first label
That's how it had to be cropped. But, I see what you mean, the space missing. I can go back and fix the label, its saved as a psd. We never noticed it before.
The picture was taken with his head hanging off of my gf's lap.
Experimental batch.
Had to fix my label. The previous one was much too dark, the text was unreadable. Unfortunate, I liked the other one on the screen. I definitely need to tone them down to a simple black and white logo or something.
Those look great I really like the warning
Been holding off on sharing these till I knew they would be used. These are for an inherited partial mash kit a friend gave me. The grain bill was unknown (which gave me the name), the yeast had to be replaced with Notty, and I adjusted the hop schedule and dry-hopping (+50g Cascade) to fit my tastes in an American IPA. Bottled last week and it's spot on ....
It is the first IPA I have brewed that I adjusted the water profile for, did a first wort hopping, hop stand at 160-170F and oxygenate with pure O2... The result?
I'm so jealous... I can't use anything but mspaint... lol
Been holding off on sharing these till I knew they would be used. These are for an inherited partial mash kit a friend gave me. The grain bill was unknown (which gave me the name), the yeast had to be replaced with Notty, and I adjusted the hop schedule and dry-hopping (+50g Cascade) to fit my tastes in an American IPA. Bottled last week and it's spot on ....
Perfect, what I take from that is tip #1 make it look professional. So many homebrewers don't bother to use labels, but I was a bartender/waiter for 8 years and one thing I learned is that the first thing you eat with is your eyes. Make it look professional, 1: put a label on every beer. If it's worth making it is worth labeling. 2: if you are going to label it put the same trouble into labeling as you did into making it. We don't just throw random hops and malts together and hope it works so don't just throw random images together. Plan it, think about how the images interact with each other. Just like the recipe you created realize that every color and image interacts with each other. Put time and thought into it. Don't just toss it together and use the first draft.
Great, thanks! Keep em coming. I really want to dig deep into this and help us understand how to make every aspect of our beers better.
If I get enough tips together from everyone I will put together some sort of manifesto that will help us all about designing the perfect label and really kick our hobby up a notch
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