Show Us Your Label

And my latest, a pecan winter warmer:

 

now I can't un-see that

 

+1. I laughed out loud when I saw that. Instantly got it.

 

Still struggling with label design, have trouble committing to a motif and generally just spend too much time tinkering, but these are my latest two attempts.

The first is a response to over-engineering way too many icons and details onto a label, I decided to go as simple as I could and created this wine-inspired label.



Since I can't leave well enough alone, I tinkered with that design for a long time until I arrived at this different version below. This is rotated to view easily on the web, but it is intended to be cut along the black lines and applied to the bottle in a 45 degree diamond shape instead of a square.

 

IMAO #2 is the winner (no contest)

 

Here are some of mine...

 

Hmm...your dropbox links don't seem to be working.

 

I fixed it, thanks!

 

Here are my newest labels!!!

 

Here's my Christmas Ale label. I realize a Black IPA isn't exactly a Christmas ale, but every year I brew my favorite recipe of that year and give it away in waxed bombers to my friends. Way better gift than cookies if ya ask me!

 

i really like the look of your labels. I especially like the duke of earl one im actually looking to do something similar with a logo for my home brew brewery name. Im completely new and should probably be focusing on basics of brewing still rather then labels but its just so cool to think of personalizing my hombrew. Im not computer savy by no means, but im more then willing to learn how to wrk a program for the sake of labeling haha. what program did you use ?

 

I found the idea on another thread. I am using business cards (5 cents/card) with a hole punched in the upper left corner and hung on the bottle with a small rubber band. It should save hours of peeling labels and glue off the reused bottles.

 

wow this is really cool man. how did you go about creating these their awesome.

 

wow this is so cool did you do it yourself? how do you go about creating something like that?? i want to be able to design a label like this but im completely new dont even know where to start, just know i want to end up with something to this level.

 

Here are a few of my most recent ones. Made with Powerpoint.

 

This is for my Kölsch in primary...since I used a dry ale yeast I'm calling it a blonde ale instead.

Paying homage to a childhood hero.

 

This is a wine label I just did... I know, not beer. Sorry.

 

Not beer your right, but I love the simplicity of your label and your font choice

 

The illustration itself was just something I found online. After that it was just a matter of creating a label in photoshop and adding the text. There are tons of photoshop tutorials out there! You should check them out!

 

Don't think I've posted this one yet...

 

Did you actually do this on a letter press?

 

Finally got around to putting a batch of labels on some bottles (we mostly keg our beer). Crappy cell picture, but I think the labels turned out pretty nice:

 

Nope. Wish I did though. That pic was just a test label. I ended up running cut up paper grocery bags through my printer for the final product. I also tweaked the design a bit.

 

Looks good either way. Every once in a while I start to talk myself into doing a full screenpress setup so I can actually hand screen my labels. But then I usually just dive back into illustrator for hours and hours of minor font changes instead of actually being productive.

 

We made our first labels for beer that we're giving to friends and neighbors for the holidays.

 

How in the world is this done?

 

Latest label for my mint stout:

 

My Holiday Brew

 

I like it!

and your name, backwards

 

I know that feeling exactly. I almost bought a printing press back in the summer but I didn't have anywhere to realistically use/store it at my house. I wish I had access to a letterpress setup for labels and other things...

 

Here are all the labels I've done so far. I find making the labels almost as fun as brewing/drinking! For the Chicha we couldn't figure out which label we liked more, so we just made a variant and labeled half with one label, and half with the other.

 

I've been lazy and haven't posted much lately. All I've done here is really post a few of the labels that I've done. I usually search the forums when I have a question and find the answer really quick so I don't need to make a new post. Anyways, I have a few new labels since my last post...but I only really have one ready to upload. Probably printing the next two sets tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to upload those soon. Sorry the pic on this one is pretty bad / the label is a bit crooked on the bottle I happened to grab.

 

Love the ingredients / recipe. Awesome idea. I incorporated it into my back label. Thanks for sharing!

 

Im making labels based off my favorite TV shows to start off with

 

Are those the Session bottles from Full Sail? Have you had any problems with them?

 

No. Sierra Nevada bottles. They are tough because they are short. The labels look funny on big bottles.

 

Badass label. Though Vanilla has TWO Ls.

 

Here's my first crack at a label, for my mom's xmas present.

 

Oops, I meant these bottles.