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Here's my most recent label. I brewed this brown ale on the evening of some major thunderstorms. I really like this beer, it has a nice hint of smokiness to it.

And thus, Thundersmoke Brown Ale was born.

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Here's my most recent label. I brewed this brown ale on the evening of some major thunderstorms. I really like this beer, it has a nice hint of smokiness to it.

And thus, Thundersmoke Brown Ale was born.

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Cool - are you using the OnlineLabels.com labels like the ones I post? I like the banner you made for the neck label - the only problem I have is getting a print shop to center the image on the label as best as possible. Kinko's (Fedex) is TERRIBLE about it...
 
Cool - are you using the OnlineLabels.com labels like the ones I post? I like the banner you made for the neck label - the only problem I have is getting a print shop to center the image on the label as best as possible. Kinko's (Fedex) is TERRIBLE about it...

Yep, I'm using those very labels. Thanks, my artist friend did a nice job on them, I think.

Have you downloaded the template from onlinelabels.com? It makes it really easy. Put your art inside the crop marks, then hide that layer and print it as a full sheet.

Granted, I print them myself as opposed to kinkos, but again, if you give them a full page image, they can't really screw them up.
 
Yep, I'm using those very labels. Thanks, my artist friend did a nice job on them, I think.

Have you downloaded the template from onlinelabels.com? It makes it really easy. Put your art inside the crop marks, then hide that layer and print it as a full sheet.

Granted, I print them myself as opposed to kinkos, but again, if you give them a full page image, they can't really screw them up.

Yeah that's what I do. I even modified the template PDF with the pixel range that equals the middle-point of each label - allows me to center text and such precisely within the label without having to re-measure each time.

The woman at the local print shop said it has something to do with indexing the printer itself and that being a large volume shop, Kinkos probably doesn't worry about it. I've tried printing them myself on our work machines, but they smeared like CRAZY somehow - looked awful.
 
PJoyce85 said:
So this will be my first label. This will be for the Quad I brewed for my wedding and Concatenation means to join together.

Thoughts?

Not sure if you are a Freemason or not, but the letter "A" in that font looks just like a square and compass. Hit me immediately, but I see it all the time.

It would be a cool hidden symbol if the groom was a Mason.

Overall, great label.
 
Feurhund said:
Not sure if you are a Freemason or not, but the letter "A" in that font looks just like a square and compass. Hit me immediately, but I see it all the time.

It would be a cool hidden symbol if the groom was a Mason.

Overall, great label.

Haha, nope. Not a mason. I was looking for almost a stone chiseled font and that was the best I found, but I thought the same thing.

Thank you for the compliment.
 
Made this for a batch I brewed for a guy I work with. A bit snarky since there's a fair amount of ballbusting between us on a daily basis.
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okay i gotta ask. what the hell is leftover casserole stout? got a recipe?

Hah. Leftover Casserole was a half-batch I made last year to use up what was left of the hops and grain I had sitting around. It came out surprisingly good for something made from whatever was lying around. It had a head that could hold up the bottlecap. I have the recipe at home if you want, I can PM you with it later; nothing extravagant, just an extract brew, but tasty.
 
My latest, for a stout that can't seem to retain a head to save it's life....

Excellent job not letting the "carriage pull the horse". I need to start waiting for the beer to finish out before making labels. Too many times the labels I make don't truly fit whats in the bottle.......
 
Yeah that's what I do. I even modified the template PDF with the pixel range that equals the middle-point of each label - allows me to center text and such precisely within the label without having to re-measure each time.

The woman at the local print shop said it has something to do with indexing the printer itself and that being a large volume shop, Kinkos probably doesn't worry about it. I've tried printing them myself on our work machines, but they smeared like CRAZY somehow - looked awful.

I've always had success on a plain old inkjet, but the final version isn't crisp... and man, it uses a lot of ink.

I did a couple on our work color laser, and they didn't look good; they were very spotty. I then went into the advanced settings and printed them as labels, not as normal paper... bingo! They look fantastic.
 
Barleywine in some martinellis bottles
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How most of my labels look, just different names.

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didn't take any pictures of them on these bottles. but here is all of them pre-labeled.
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Here is one of them i opened... says "Cuvee Des Brettanomyaces Belgian Farmhouse Lambic"
 
Heres a few I did quite a while ago.(I became lazy and got out of the habbit of making labels). That and lots of small batches I couldnt keep up with.

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Barleywine in some martinellis bottles
I like the thin ribbon-type label vertical down the bottle. Rather original. What's holding it on, wax? If so, how do you do the custom image?

Made this for an upcoming pumpkin ale. So far, the taste isn't living up to the label, but I haven't added the vanilla beans yet, so we'll see.

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First draft of a label I made for a variation of a beer a friend designed. This beer pours so black I cant get a light to shine through it

Its a Weizenbock of sorts.

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I have 4 brews in the works right now:
A Carlsberg clone (I live in a Eldersburg)
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I did a summer shandy clone for a friend
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My Oktoberfest for 2013
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And my White Christmas clone
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