Show Us Your Label

[doug293cz]

After a frustrating hour+ spent gluing my plain-paper color printed labels with milk for adhesive onto 24 bottles (xmas gifts!), I'm looking for alternatives!

What's everyone else using? I'm leaning towards Avery labels (where I just upload my image and they take it from there)... But those are pretty expensive.

I use the mix from this post. Works great, and easy to apply with a 1" paint brush.

Brew on

 

[JAReeves]

I use glue sticks and printer paper labels cut out. They don’t last in the presence of moisture. But you can mulch or recycle them if that’s a concern.

 

[D.B.Moody]

After a frustrating hour+ spent gluing my plain-paper color printed labels with milk for adhesive onto 24 bottles (xmas gifts!), I'm looking for alternatives!

What's everyone else using? I'm leaning towards Avery labels (where I just upload my image and they take it from there)... But those are pretty expensive.

I use Artisan Label Making Paper: 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of gummed paper for about $8.00 for 18 sheets. I print 9 labels on a sheet. I almost always only do 9 labels per batch.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

I use Artisan Label Making Paper: 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of gummed paper for about $8.00 for 18 sheets. I print 9 labels on a sheet. I almost always only do 9 labels per batch.

Nice, I think that is exactly what I was looking for!

 

[doug293cz]

Ok, this thread is starting to veer into a discussion of printing and attaching labels, which is off topic for this thread (and yes I am aware that I contributed to it.) There are other threads where this discussion is more appropriate.

Please no more discussion of printing and attaching labels here.

doug293cz
HBT Moderator

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Getting together for early xmas festivus dinner with my sister and her family, and I'm bringing some homebrew. So far, the glue-stick suggestion from @JAReeves is working great!

 

[MaxStout]

Probably won't make labels, but I'd like to print up some glassware with this. I've used that character as my avatar for years, might as well stick with it. Kind of looks like me. Anyone know of a good online place that does good full-color on beer glasses in small quantities (like a dozen or two)? Prefer nonic pint glasses.

 

[Skeeter686]

Probably won't make labels, but I'd like to print up some glassware with this. I've used that character as my avatar for years, might as well stick with it. Kind of looks like me. Anyone know of a good online place that does good full-color on beer glasses in small quantities (like a dozen or two)? Prefer nonic pint glasses.

I had a great experience with this place: Personalized Glasses and Mugs | Glass With a Twist

 

[jtratcliff]

After a frustrating hour+ spent gluing my plain-paper color printed labels with milk for adhesive onto 24 bottles (xmas gifts!), I'm looking for alternatives!

What's everyone else using? I'm leaning towards Avery labels (where I just upload my image and they take it from there)... But those are pretty expensive.

Elmer's glue stick... easy to apply, initially movable for precise placement, comes off with water. Been my go to for awhile now...

 

[jtratcliff]

Please no more discussion of printing and attaching labels here.

oops! Mea Culpa!

 

[jtratcliff]

Back on topic:

 

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[jtratcliff]

Another variation of th 1st one... These were all done on the Avery website... I find the graphics online somewhere and import them into an Avery Project..... Then print them with an inkjet onto plain paper and apply to bottle with a glue stick...

Apply stick around perimeter of the label, then an X across the middle... Good to go!

I choose a template with 9 to a sheet, then use the "print yourself" option... Requires some cutting but it's not bad. And with the glue stick, application is quite fast.

 

[Dgallo]

label for my latest west coast ipa

 

[D.B.Moody]

'Tis the season to be jolly, and I've got help.

 

[user 246304]

Clueless with all technology, and lost all but one of my old labels in many moves across computer crashes over many years. I think I somehow macgyvered it from Word, but have no idea. I'd love to learn how to make them again.

Edgar was my wife's late grandpa - son of Estonia, he and his young family caught up in the cataclysm of WWII when Estonia traded overlords between the soviets (forced to serve as an officer) and the nazis (deserted soviet army, taken POW by the Germans), was POW when my wife's mom was born, through wits and sheer guts got his family out and eventually sponsored by an occupying US officer to settle in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Made a tremendous life, through sheer determination made it two weeks into his 100th year.

Lover of good beer, one of my biggest "customers."

 

[JAReeves]

The label for our barrel-aged blackberry sauvignon blanc.

 

[dogglebe]

I use this bottle tag for meads mostly. You don't see the perforated hole in the empty space on top. I punch it out to hang around the bottle's neck.

I use a gold paint pen to fill in the information on the bottom.

 

[satownsend]

Honu is a Pale Ale/NEIPA I've brewed a few times featuring columbus, mosaic, centennial, and nelson sauvin. I made the label using a still image from GoPro footage I took snorkeling in Hawaii. QR code links to the GoPro video.

I used ChatGPT to generate the image for this year's Christmas beer with nectaron hops.

 

[Dgallo]

I feel like someone is jacking my label style….lol

 

[ClaudiusB]

Easter is coming soon and my beer requires a new label.

 

[satownsend]

Here's a draft of an AI designed label for my latest NEIPA with Columbus, Citra, and Mosaic. On the same trip to Hawaii that I snorkeled with the turtle in the Honu label, I went snorkeling with Manta Rays at sunset. It was an amazing experience. I have footage, but it's pretty dark and won't work for a label so I used ChatGPT.

Edit: When I first started trying to make labels with AI, I would ask GPT to create a beer label. It'd often display an image that included a beer bottle or can with text that didn't make sense. It's still pretty bad at creating text in an image. I didn't start having success until I started asking for the images without mentioning it's for a beer label and then adding the text in Photoshop.

Here's the prompt used to generate this:

"I need an image that is wider than high. It should be a manta ray swimming near coral reefs in Hawaii. It should be at sunset with a nice sky and stars. Half of the image should be under water showing the manta ray. The other have above the water showing the sky."

 

[vikyvar]

My Vienna lager brewed in February.

 

[Dgallo]

Newests label for my latest west coast IPA. Sticking with the old school hiphop beer names for my west coasts

 

[tdriling]

Just started making mead. Here is my first set of labels.

 

[bwible]

So I bought an Imperial Stout from one of our locals and I laughed when I saw their label. Theirs is on the left. The one on the right is one I did for one of my imperial stouts a couple years back.

 

[Matheos]

My GF made this for me for a beer Xmas calendar I was part of My IPA was no 24. The goose, as it is a goose island IPA clone

 

[vikyvar]

Enjoy the showcase of my labels
https://www.stankovskepivo.cz/etikety-vikyvar-2/