Show Us Your Label

[D_Nyholm]

How do you guys d stuff like this with no formal training? A lot of these labels look professional!!! I've only made 2 so far and they kinda suck! (from the labelizer)

 

[greed6]

Still a relative newcomer to the brewing thing, and the label thing. These were my first three attempts:

Working on a redesign for my next, but I don't think I'm there yet:

 

[Metallion66]

Heres what I have for my brand so far. Still not finalized but I thought I would share.

Logo:

Hefeweizen Label:

IPA Label:

Bottle hanger for special beers:

And a comp so you can get a better idea of what the bottle will look like:

So far most folks I show this to have liked the idea. What do you guys who brew think?

 

[Reno_eNVy]

HOLY CRAP I love those. And the name Solamun... clever.

Just to make sure, that's "Jefe de Hefes" right?

 

[Metallion66]

Correct. Jefe de Hefes

And thank you for the positive feedback =]

 

[smegger]

Wow I really like those last ones, cool idea and a nice basic colour scheme. Kinda jealous, I want to steal it.

 

[BargainMugs]

Love those. Great typography and color scheme. They might be my favorite labels on the forum. Anything with zombies has a special place in my heart.

 

[Pappers_]

Still a relative newcomer to the brewing thing, and the label thing. These were my first three attempts:

Working on a redesign for my next, but I don't think I'm there yet:

I like these a lot. Get a nice template and then change it up just a little for each particular branch. Nicely done!

 

[Noontime]

I like these a lot. Get a nice template and then change it up just a little for each particular branch. Nicely done!

I agree! I like the top 3 with the extended banner. Having the same format with some information always the same is great, so "customers" know where to look for information, aren't confused by changing "visual hierchy", and are comforted by the familiarity. The items that do change are creative and clever (particularly the spotlight). Really great design work.

 

[braceful]

@braceful, absolutely love the Grinch story! (You labels are great too.)

That Grinch story is so cool! You don't see that kind of imagination too often on here...:rockin:

That has to be my favorite, most creative label I've ever seen! I'm a huge suess fan, I have a vast vintage book collection I read to my son every night

The wedding favors (Amber and Hefeweizen) labels are almost ready. I'll throw em up here when they're finished.

 

[RLewis15]

 

[RLewis15]

There is an inside joke behind that one My friends call me salad fingers

 

[Noontime]

Heres what I have for my brand so far. Still not finalized but I thought I would share.


So far most folks I show this to have liked the idea. What do you guys who brew think?

Great design, consistent throughout, fantastic! Good use of color...grayish greens and yellows just scream dead, horror...zombie. And I can't believe the use of such "vomitous" colors made such a great design, but did not have any negative effect on me associating it with a beverage (sometimes peoples creativity doesn't coincide with something someone is supposed to put in their mouth). I especially like the hand punching out through the hops. As mentioned, the only negative thing to be found is the Hefes is blocked so much you can't read it. Great job!

 

[Veldrid]

Here is a label I made for my wedding. It was for a Berliner Weisse my buddy and I brewed.

 

[Metallion66]

Great design, consistent throughout, fantastic! Good use of color...grayish greens and yellows just scream dead, horror...zombie. And I can't believe the use of such "vomitous" colors made such a great design, but did not have any negative effect on me associating it with a beverage (sometimes peoples creativity doesn't coincide with something someone is supposed to put in their mouth). I especially like the hand punching out through the hops. As mentioned, the only negative thing to be found is the Hefes is blocked so much you can't read it. Great job!

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Yeah I've been struggling a bit with the actual names being in the background. I'm thinking I will more than likely end up doing a back label as well, where the name of the beer plus all the information will be more prevalent. Having it on the back label will at least give people another place of where to read the name, but I really want the front to just be eye catching. I'll be sure to keep everyone updated.

 

[DregAddict]

Vienna/Amarillo SMaSH that I just finished labeling

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[C17-EHSE]

The name was suggested by my niece after some lyrics by the Drop Kick Murphys. One of her favorite bands.

 

[BurgerJones]

New to GIMP, this is the first label I actually tried to make look nice, would love some critique. (Sorry for the hugeness.)

 

[Progfan2010]

Very nice man !. What kind of program did you use?. Also, what program did you use to design your brewery logo?

 

[lextasy23]

(Still in primary)

(haven't even brewed yet - a loose Arrogant Bastard "clone")

 

[HokieBrewer]

Really like those two. Are you going to add any extra info to the Boston Massacre label in the brown section?

 

[IrregularPulse]

WIN on the Fish Dog! That's great. :mugs:

 

[lextasy23]

Really like those two. Are you going to add any extra info to the Boston Massacre label in the brown section?

Thanks! Ya, it's going to get the official treatment, Surgeon general's warning (my funny joke one), barcode, write-up, recycle symbol, etc...

The 'Boston Massacre' text is a direct photoshop copy from the original engraving by Paul Revere. It's called 'Bloody Massacre'. I just sampled some letters and made 'Boston'. Not sure if people would want to drink something called Bloody Massacre Ale lol.

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/battles/paul-revere-boston-massacre.jpg

The font for the rest is called 'Jefferson', and I first saw it here:
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(The video is hysterical. I highly recommend it lol)
Then I just googled it and it was a free download from some font site. The whole back will be written in it, if it's legible. I may get another one, I found a few similar ones.

WIN on the Fish Dog! That's great. :mugs:

lol thanks. It started as a DFH clone, but ended up with a wee bit of a higher OG (1.100!). I do still have some important questions if you guys wouldn't mind taking a look... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/90-minute-ipa-extract-207533-new/

 

[lextasy23]

 

[sleepydave]

Did you have a chemical analysis done on that...it's supposed to be theoretically nearly impossible to get over 100 IBU's, needless to say 150!

Nope no chem analysis. That's calculated ibu, not actual. It wasn't designed to be a bitter beer, first wort and immense late additions were a big factor in hitting the 150+ calc'd ibus.
It's VERY easy to hit whatever ibu you want when you are going by calculations. I've got a 186ibu 6.9% pale that is just chock full of hop flavor, but probably is really only at an actual IBU rating of maybe ~60.

Both that pale and the DIPA tasted less bitter than 70ibu commercial examples by quite a bit.

Cheers!
Dave

 

[BurgerJones]

Very nice man !. What kind of program did you use?. Also, what program did you use to design your brewery logo?

I used GIMP for both, which had a pretty steep learning curve for me but I think I like. First one took me hours, but the next two I whipped up in no time (and shrunk for posting).

Also, some sites I found helpful for fonts and textures--

http://www.dafont.com
http://www.grsites.com/archive/textures/

 

[lextasy23]

Also, some sites I found helpful for fonts and textures--

http://www.dafont.com
http://www.grsites.com/archive/textures/

1001freefonts.com is where 95% of mine come from. Great site, great fonts. I'll have to check out your links

 

[modernlifeisANDY]

For my latest:

 

[bknifefight]

Why is there a blotch of different colors between Columbia and Brewing?

 

[Reno_eNVy]

For my latest:

You put boogers in your beer?

Fun label, though.