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Thanks I will give it a try sometime. Especially for new additions. I am especially picky on buying beer in bottles nowadays and favor ones with labels that soak off clean.
 
If you do change your mind, you can use oxiclean clear as your bottle cleaner and when you soaking the labels will fall right off
I always print my own labels using the business card size removable labels from the stationery store. Most of them come off clean if you are patient. Oxiclean soaking will take off any residual gunk.
 
Monty Python fans will get this one. Just made a Bwitish Stwong Ale

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The last one I did was an old ale. I struggle for names sometimes. We had a cat named Ziggy who had to be put down right before Christmas last year. He was 17, which is old for a cat. I made a couple other labels using him. I went back again. AI put a cat on there that looks a whole lot like him.

I may re-do it and change the text on the outsides. We live in Oxford, PA which is a British name and we have a little creek nearby called Tweed Creek, so I want to try to put in “Oxfordian Ale, brewed in Oxford on Tweed.”

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Brewing an oak aged Strong Scottish like a take on Backwoods Bastard. I thought Rickhouse Rascal, which has the bourbon theme and repeating R's like their repeating B's. A guy in my club suggested Jawn Snow. Jawn is a Philly area term that can mean anything and John Snow, of course, was a bastard. I could play with the Jawn Snow label a little more, lot of blank space.

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So this one is crazy...

I asked AI for a name and label for an apple and honey based cyser beverage using a Lord of the Rings theme. It gave me the name Eldarin Orchards. I watch movies, I am not the kind of nerd to know fantasy languages like Elvish or Klingon - but apparently Eldarin either means elvish or is related to a place in the Lord of the Rings genre.

Anyhow, the label that came back looks like about a dead knockoff of Angry Orchard - same color scheme, font/typeface, even has the twisted trees. My wife says this is her favorite label that AI has created so far.
 

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Just paged through a few of these labels and you guys are rock stars. Awesome stuff. What platform do you use to create these in? At the moment, I just do tap handles (most of my brews dont last long enough to bottle) but I also do meads, that take 6 months to a year to condition and I bottle those. Would love to get creative with some great labels or better looking tap handle inserts, but compared to these, mine look like a kindergartener did them. I am doing mine in powerpoint at the moment and printing on a color laser printer, then cutting to size to fit the insert (for a tap handle). Does the job, but you all have inspired me.
 
Chat GPT AI. DALLE. Its a subscription you pay for. $20 a month. I used to use Photoshop and do them myself but AI does it so much better. Sometimes you might have to fight with it and ask for the same thing a couple different ways to get what you want.
 
Just paged through a few of these labels and you guys are rock stars. Awesome stuff. What platform do you use to create these in? At the moment, I just do tap handles (most of my brews dont last long enough to bottle) but I also do meads, that take 6 months to a year to condition and I bottle those. Would love to get creative with some great labels or better looking tap handle inserts, but compared to these, mine look like a kindergartener did them. I am doing mine in powerpoint at the moment and printing on a color laser printer, then cutting to size to fit the insert (for a tap handle). Does the job, but you all have inspired me.
I use onlinelabels.com. They have a bunch of different label sizes and paper materials to choose from. Once you buy their labels they give you access to their label editing software (maestro label design) and all you have to do is select the labels you bought from them and then you get that template to start designing.

The program isn’t too advanced, kinda like a glorified Microsoft paint software so I’ll use photoshop and Canva to crop and edit the images and save them as jpegs and then I’ll upload the jpeg images in maestro to finish the label and print. They look pretty good
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What size(s) are your labels. I have made a few in MS Paint, etc but basically just a "logo" and not a label. What size is preferred for a bottle? Thanks!
 
I use onlinelabels.com. They have a bunch of different label sizes and paper materials to choose from. Once you buy their labels they give you access to their label editing software (maestro label design) and all you have to do is select the labels you bought from them and then you get that template to start designing.

The program isn’t too advanced, kinda like a glorified Microsoft paint software so I’ll use photoshop and Canva to crop and edit the images and save them as jpegs and then I’ll upload the jpeg images in maestro to finish the label and print. They look pretty good View attachment 867398
So these are adhesive backed labels? How hard are they to remove? Thanks.
 
What size(s) are your labels. I have made a few in MS Paint, etc but basically just a "logo" and not a label. What size is preferred for a bottle? Thanks!
Mine are 3.5” x 4” rectangular and I do waterproof matte inkjet paper. If you have a laser jet they have that paper too
 
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