lebucheron
Well-Known Member
Made a few more since I posted about a year ago...
Brewed this Saturday as a one-gallon experimental batch. Also planning to brew a Brown-Ale version of it later this week perhaps. I went with 20% of honey malt just to see what'll happen!
I like drawing pictures and them gluing them to my beer bottles. We brewed extract kits for the whiskey stout (my person loves whiskeys, I love stouts, so its the mushy, threw-up-in-my-mouth-a-bit label), also an imperial pale ale. We brewed a belgian tripel, and my boxer/chupacabra mix, Tesla, looks kinda like Admiral Ackbar with a severe underbite, so I just went with the horribly awful play on that. Those aren't on bottles yet, because I'm waiting for it to carb and I feel like labels = ready to drink, so I'm waiting
Next is the Klienen Arsch Oktoberfest (translates to Little Butt in German)
Brewed this Saturday as a one-gallon experimental batch. Also planning to brew a Brown-Ale version of it later this week perhaps. I went with 20% of honey malt just to see what'll happen!
was this one in the BYO label contest? I feel like I've seen it somewhere before...
The art in your sundowner is stunning...keep it up
Ha. It works well, but isn't it not all that different than "Can I have S'More". The reason that those two are used so much, is because that's where the name of the treat came from.Heh, okay here we go...
I'm about to attempt a S'Mores Beer - obviously there's a handful of these around, and my original title idea - "S'Mores Sout" - turned out to be a very reputable beer by Short's Brewery in Michigan... So that's out...
"Can I have S'More" is played out... "Gimme S'More" isn't much more interesting... So I needed something really completely different. This is what I came up with... Lemme know your opinion, and note that it's still a work in progress.
This is the basic format of all my labels. I just switch out the name and info, and I also change the color of the rusty truck font to coordinate with whatever type of beer it is. I looks a little odd with a white backround, but I actually print it on "kraft" cardboard colored labels.
I don't take full credit for the design though. Another homebrewer on HBT gave me a bit of inspiration as far as the layout goes. I just tweaked it to my own liking.
For mine, since I had never had my beer before, I didn't really want to call out S'Mores directly, so people wouldn't be disappointed if it didn't taste like S'Mores. I figured this was good enough:
Cheers :rockin: to those excellent brewmasters and bottlers who've recently shown actual labels on actual bottles - mandasaurus_rex, greyfixer, The_Happy_Dachshund_Brewe, itsme_timd, ryden!
I've got nothin' for the rest of you bozos.
That actually makes pretty good sense to me. I like the graphic, too.
And actually after I posted that I realized I had my wording wrong - it's "Thank you sir MAY I have..." and then of course I'm using "S'More" isntead of "another."
I had also considered a Wizard of Oz theme and going with "Chocolate, Marshmallow and Graham, Oh My!"
Have a label, just need a unique recipe...
Have a label, just need a unique recipe...
in our house it's called a daddy pop.. it's definitely a parent thing. nice label
I'm thirsty.
So looking for opinions...
I posted this label a few pages ago. I had it printed this morning and will get it on a few bottles tonight (can't wait!)
I'm almost out of the labels with this design - the lower, 3.5 x 3 label and the 3.25'ish wide neck label. I've enjoyed making these, but the neck label always ends up an afterthought, doesn't always fit in with my design, and often becomes a centering nightmare when local businesses try to print these things.
So I'm thinking about getting some 5 x 3 labels for my next batch and trying something different. I really want the extra space on the sides that some of you have used for stories, "warnings", SRM/IBU/ABV info, city/state, etc... There was just never a good place to put that info before, especially if I wanted to really make the most of the main "label". So I designed this today.
I like it, but I'm wondering if the gauge idea is a bit too big. (If I make it too much smaller, you won't be able to read the numbers)
The "ViperDen" is based on the car, not the reptile, so I thought it'd be a cool way of embelishing the "theme".
What do you folks think?
So looking for opinions...
I posted this label a few pages ago. I had it printed this morning and will get it on a few bottles tonight (can't wait!)
I'm almost out of the labels with this design - the lower, 3.5 x 3 label and the 3.25'ish wide neck label. I've enjoyed making these, but the neck label always ends up an afterthought, doesn't always fit in with my design, and often becomes a centering nightmare when local businesses try to print these things.
So I'm thinking about getting some 5 x 3 labels for my next batch and trying something different. I really want the extra space on the sides that some of you have used for stories, "warnings", SRM/IBU/ABV info, city/state, etc... There was just never a good place to put that info before, especially if I wanted to really make the most of the main "label". So I designed this today.
I like it, but I'm wondering if the gauge idea is a bit too big. (If I make it too much smaller, you won't be able to read the numbers)
The "ViperDen" is based on the car, not the reptile, so I thought it'd be a cool way of embelishing the "theme".
What do you folks think?
Enter your email address to join: