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Bottled these two for Christmas and New Year's gifts this year.
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I've been playing with Canva to make some labels, here are two of my favorite:
Printed this one today to label an Altbier I brewed about a month ago.
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The Rimrocks are the dominant geographical feature of the city of Billings. Sandstone cliffs which run along the north side of the city for miles, rising from 500-800 feet above the Yellowstone River Valley.
My latest. You can guess what it is. Named after my middle son, who always wants to inhale deeply from the hops bag whenever I'm brewing.
drasticdub
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I opted for these generic logo labels and slap a different color circular sticker on the cap to differentiate.
If I'm gifting, have folks over or otherwise sharing I make a little print out with the beer label cap and name with description, etc ...
The name is in honor of my number one brew dog, featured in my profile pic (yes, the markings on the illustrations match hers).
cheers!
If I'm gifting, have folks over or otherwise sharing I make a little print out with the beer label cap and name with description, etc ...
The name is in honor of my number one brew dog, featured in my profile pic (yes, the markings on the illustrations match hers).
cheers!
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I like it!
I was thinking of buying similar stickers, but having it so there was an area that I could just right the beer info on directly on the labels, kind of like what I have on my tap wraps. I am currently just using bottles with a square of plain mactac stuck to them that I right on with a permanent marker. Won’t rub off in a humid fridge or if they go in an ice filled cooler, but a quick pass or two with a magic eraser while rinsing the empty and the marker gets cleaned right up and it's ready for the next brew!
I just kicked this keg, but I bottled a 6er for one of the neighbors. Bottles require labels. It's in the rulebook.
93IBU. Realistically, how does that drink? How long did it condition?
It was 93IBU based upon the recipe, but it was all EKG & Fuggles (1# of hops including DH). I found the initial bitterness to be almost too smooth, but the aromatics from the hops blended nicely with the vanilla from the oak. I'm sure it had enough IBU's to age for a lengthy period, as the recipe I used was supposed to sit in a barrel for a year before being shipped to India. I aged it for 6 weeks at near freezing before pouring it for guests. The oak took a solid month to calm down.
I think our IBU calculators just can't be programmed to account for the variability of different hops' AA flavors and the agricultural regions (terroir), etc., so this 93IBU beer is way less bitter than the 70IBU WCIPA I just put on tap.
Kold Brygg
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I've just updated my template and design.
Should I go with my old template?
Or the new template?
Should I go with my old template?
Or the new template?
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I personally like the cartoon versions of the photos. The realistic photos are a little harsh, especially the Pope. Both are great, though, and makes me want to try the beer!
I brought one of my ancient kegs out of mothballs this morning to serve as a dry hopping keg. That means I get to play in this thread.
Here’s my label.
Here’s my label.
I vote for new.
Dgallo
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Thanks man!Very
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 I’m not as advanced with Photoshop as many here.
I’m not much of a graphic designer. I use Beer Labelizer, which is pretty much “fill in the blank”. It’s 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 “old” 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 haven’t 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 haven’t 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. I’d 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 what’s in all the bottles. We’re 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 don’t know how to use. I’ve been playing with it for a long time and I’m not a Photoshop expert but I get by with it.
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