Wine and Beer Bottle Hanging Tags.

[robertvrabel]

Can you email me your template for your Mac?

I second this... would be interested in your file for the mac.

Also, the tags are a great idea. I plan to use these for sampler packs I hand out to people. My normal bottles, initials on the caps will be fine

 

[robertvrabel]

I went off this idea, and made a template in photoshop for 1 tag... which then I just replicate the group 2 times after I fill out the template and space them so I fit 3 on a page.

Here is the outcome (And my first brew!)

 

[Revvy]

Looks cool!!! Thanks for posting it in my thread...I keep asking for folks to do that.

 

[copper]

Here's a sample of what I'm starting with.

The turtle image is a comp image of some vector art I've been thinking about using in my labels as "Loggerhead Brew".
Below that is the "beer-centric" information. I pulled the copy from the Beer Advocate website.
The red copy is the information statement regarding bottle conditioned beer. I pulled the copy that RandalG posted (hope you don't mind, boss), and edited to suit my own taste.
There are 3 icons below that. One to show if the beer contains wheat or not. My father has Celiac and I'll be cooking up some gluten-free beers as I go along. The second is a lactose icon for the lactose intolerant. (milk stout...mmmmmm). You can see this one is slashed out. The circle & slash symbol can be quickly applied to the wheat icon as well.
The third is where I plan to fill in the calculated ABV for each batch.
Finally, a friendly reminder to return bottles to the brewers so we can keep making good beer at minimal cost.

Thanks for the ideas Revvy! and to every one that has posted suggestions and samples in this thread. I love this idea as a simple and creative way to label bottles without having to soak off adhesive each time they are re-used.

For those that are interested, this image was made using Illustrator and Indesign CS3. Elements such as the circle & slash are on individual layers so they can be turned on and off without hassle. I'm happy to share my icons or Illustrator/Indesign files if anyone wants them.

Overall I think it needs a bit of background to give it some depth and make it look all 'purdy. Maybe a parchment background or something. I'll work on that.

 

[Revvy]

Looks awesome copper!!!

 

[v2comp]

Just FYI, I used Door Hangers (google them), they come with a slit and a hole already perforated and are fairly cheap in you buy enough. even in the small packs, 150 hangers for around $12 bucks.

 

[dcHokie]

Hey Revvy, your bottletags are awesome, thanks for the templates!

Wanted to share my mod of your template concept. My homebrew club is a big group with plenty of new faces each month. Our meetings are primarily social with a large tasting table for all our homebrews. Since most of the beers brought are unlabeled aside from caps, once the caps come off it's easy to lose track of who brought what beer. I just wanted something simple that could be printed out each month, although I may want to do a run of these on card stock and get them laminated so we can write on them with grease pencils or dry erase markers and reuse.

 

[Revvy]

What a great idea!!!

 

[brewguy82]

This is pretty good revy. I love the idea. Gonna try it out when I can. Thanks for the idea.

 

[montbardbrewing]

Just testing out a neck tag on a 22oz bottle, excuse the crap quality from my camera phone. Added the recipe (ingredients in % & IBUs, including OG, FG, ABV, SRM, total IBUs) on the bottle too - will include dates as well. The print is quite small but legible if you have decent eyesight. Would be nice to open a bottle up down the line and have the recipe sheet handy, right on the tag.

 

[NinjaMedic]

This is brilliant, I'll be doing this for my best friend's wedding beer: "Wedding Bells Witbier". I'll post the results. Thanks!

 

[Revvy]

This is brilliant, I'll be doing this for my best friend's wedding beer: "Wedding Bells Witbier". I'll post the results. Thanks!

Can't wait to see them!!!!!

 

[user 85995]

Thanks for the template!

 

[Navy_Chief]

Thanks for the template, it works great. I cam up with these two for the last batched I bottles...

 

[Revvy]

Oh AWESOME!!!! I love pinup art!!!!

 

[westcoastpirate]

Bump! ^^^I would love it if mZnthebend would email me the template for Mac also! Thanks!

 

[redsoxfan1974]

looks great!!

 

[The_Brewzer]

I'm bumping an old thread here, but I have to give credit where due. Thanks for the template! Here are the labels I came up with for the 6-packs of bombers I am giving out this Christmas. Slightly amateurish, but I'm happy with them, especially with the crates I put together for them.

 

[Revvy]

The "just beer" one is clearly the coolest one. The artwork on all the others are awesome...but the just beer is plain cool!!!

Nothing amateurish about them at all, NOR the cool bottle holder.

 

[The_Brewzer]

The "just beer" one is clearly the coolest one. The artwork on all the others are awesome...but the just beer is plain cool!!!

Nothing amateurish about them at all, NOR the cool bottle holder.

Lol, thanks. That particular label took me about 30 seconds in MS Paint, but I thought it was fitting for a SMaSH beer!

 

[tallmike]

Just a bump for one of the best ideas in the homebrew world. Thanks for doing the work for us on the template.

 

[tallmike]

Another method I use, more for clarification than for presentation, is to use round Avery OL32 1/2" labels, printed with the beer name or logo, and put them on the bottlecaps.

 

[deanoaz]

After looking all day for hanging tags templates for bottles, I made up one of my own as a MS word Document.

Each tag is approx 2 inches wide, and the text area after the fold is about 5 inches.

I was going to upload the msword doc, but even with all the pics and text blocks removed it still exceeds the limit to just upload here. If someone wants it I guess you could pm me and I'll email you the document. Unless someone has an idea of where to upload it to so I can link it here for anyone.

I don't like to glue labels on, especially since I spend so much time removing them. So I like the idea of a hanging tag that slips over the neck of the bottle and hangs there. I printed it out on thick photopaper. All you need to do is cut them out, cut out the hole for the neck (or just make 2 slits at the cross) and fold it downword.

You just basically need to stick a graphic in each space, and add your own text to the text blocks...Or move stuff around and add your own text boxes wherever you want it.

Edit

Here's the links from MoRoToRiUm
Sample

Template

Just wanted to thank revvy for the bottle neck tag idea....hope its not copyrighted. I am a small batch brewer just starting out and only plan to have beer for my friends so I will write in the recipe name in the blank above the hops. I used his bottle neck idea (found the beer snob on the Internet), with Visio as my software. I hope this attachment works.

 

[BrooklynTom]

Revvy, Great idea,
I took 5 mins just now and put this together in Microsoft Publisher with a brochure template. a little wide but usable.
MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

[EmptyVessel]

Thanks for sharing this great idea! I just finished my CAD version, converted to PDF.

View attachment template.pdf

 

[eh1bbq]

please delete

 

[bonecitybrewco]

My tag ideas follow below. What do you guys think? I can't decide between the black and white labels and the black vs white logo itself.

Any thoughts?

 

[Revvy]

They're both excellent BCB, I can't make up my mind. I keep scrolling up and down, thinking there's an aspect that I might like better, like your logo in black, then scroll up and re-evaluate it in white and like it too... I'd use both. LOL.

The thing to think about is that you'll be using a lot of black ink if you go with the black one.

 

[bonecitybrewco]

They're both excellent BCB, I can't make up my mind. I keep scrolling up and down, thinking there's an aspect that I might like better, like your logo in black, then scroll up and re-evaluate it in white and like it too... I'd use both. LOL.

The thing to think about is that you'll be using a lot of black ink if you go with the black one.

Thanks Revvy. Appreciate it. Ideally it will be on black card stock. That should reduce the black ink consumption.

 

[thenorthwesthammer]

Huge thanks for making this template. Removing labels is not fun. This makes things very simple but gives nice presentation for gifts etc.

I usually just put colour coded markings on my bottle caps for personal drinking but will give these a whirl for gift giving.