Show Us Your Label

Shoulda called it "Yellow Snow"

 

I thought about it, but I wanted friends to drink it!

 

Here's one I made during my lunch break yesterday. It's for my first bottled batch in a year or so--since I started kegging. Going to age these guys for a while! I might even wax the caps. I'll post the finished product when I get there. I wanted it to look sort of like a moonshine label.

 

Just finished this one. gonna play with the fonts a little but overall I'm pretty happy with it

 

Hi! I'm new here and new to homebrewing. Front and back labels for my planned beers for the year.

 

Rough Draft

 

Dapper ESB ready for sharing.

 

That is great! What did you use to print?

 

Thanks.

The labels were designed in Photoshop, laid out in MSWord, and printed on light card stock with a laser printer. Cutting them out with scissors is a pain in the a$$ but luckily I don't have to cut too many of them.

Originally I had designed the labels for bottles, but I usually share my homebrew in growlers so the tag option just made sense.

 

Here's my first label:

 

Here's my label. Don't have the ABV yet, but I'll put it on before printing out the labels and sticking them on.

 

I Like the clean simplicity of your label. If i were shopping, i would definitely stop and read it.xr

 

Dig it...:rockin:

 

Thanks! I wanted to try to keep it refined a little to highlight the portraits. I might change the background color a little.

 

Can I steal this for a Galaxy Pale Ale I'm doing for our club beer camp.

 

Just a simple label for my orange honey blonde. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1427552169.765258.jpg

 

My new "Extra Special Bitter" label and the final printed product with custom bottle caps from Grogtag

 

I've gone to a simpler style of label recently mostly because my old labels took so long to make I didn't have the time to finish them for every batch.

I can make 3 of these layouts in the time it took to do one of the other. They're a bit more retro in style. I'll probably keep tweaking the template but I'm pretty happy so far.

I even redid one of my old labels in this new style:

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Printing them on tinted paper gives them a bit more pop:

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Also cheaper since it's only Black toner and I get 9 to a page for 12oz and 6 for bombers.

 

I love the idea of printing on colored paper! Gives it color to differentiate at a glance without using any extra (expensive) ink.

 

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The colored paper trick i have to try, that sounds like a good way to make more labels, cheapish.

I've been useing milk as an adhesive, it seems to work well, it sticks, but also comes off with a bit of hot water.

 

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What program is everyone using for these labels?
I had previously used word, but it always came out like poo!

 

I use gimp and generally just search for labels that are similar to what i want and then edit them.

I'd use photoshop, but i don't like paying that much ;D

 

I HIGHLY recommend using Knox gelatin as an adhesive... super cheap, easy and it will stay on submerged in a cooler! Little hot water and its off in seconds! Search the forum for Knox and you'll find instructions

 

I second the Knox, works great.

 

I make mine in Gimp which is sort of an open source version of Photoshop.

 

I had mine printed through grogtag. I like how they came out.

 

The new label for my Black IPA (I was wearing a Johnny Cash shirt when I named it, brewed it and racked to secondary -- purely by coincidence).

 

My daughter's 21st is in a couple of days. I packaged a case of AHS Raspberry Tart. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1428194350.014664.jpg

 

Woke up in the middle of the night and couldnt get back to sleep. So I started on a label for my latest. Its a feeble Colette clone.

 

I use photoshop and love it, but if you don't want to spend a lot of money and are an honest law abiding citizen, then GIMP is free substitute, or even photoshop elements (much cheaper) would be good. For some reason I always had bad luck with gimp but most that try it dig it

 

Gimp user here also!
Been a lurker here forever, recently joined - here is one of my latest label projects; for a porter I brewed last month and the "poster" I did to go along with it (I usually print one of these to photo paper and hang it in my home bar when I tap a new beer) - the race car is from iracing - a online racing simulation that I do when time permits





And a label for a Moose Drool clone:



And my new "Skeeter Pee" label - wanted something a little more "wine" looking for this brew, but still wanted to retain some of the "tongue-in-cheek" humor of it's heritage- the name is the french translation of "the piss of the mosquito" - At least according to google translate.

 

For anyone using a Mac, Pixelmator is incredible. It's not free, but not expensive.

 

My first attempt at labels. These will be for the kegerator. Feedback welcome!

 

Wow. Your "skeeter pee" is 18.5%abv ?!

Would you mind sharing the recipe?

 

This will be the generic base for my label, thanks to the guys in the label help thread and the Knox thread for label application View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1428757337.826577.jpg

 

Another strong endorsement for Pixelmator here if you have a Mac!

 

I love both. I wish I was as creative.

 

First stout and first label.. a stout with a chocolate twist. It is still in the fermenter and at 6% after only a week it's going to finish quite a bit stronger than I expected... hence the name.:cross:

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I like that one Zippy84.

 

Good to hear, bar the waay off metric conversion it worked out well, obviously I don't normally deal in ounces!!