Tim Leanse and Sam Rowell, of Noble Union Imports, are combining their multifarious jobs to create Alchemic Ale, a series that pairs beers with original artwork. Each beer in the series is released in earthenware, 750-millileter bottles screenprinted with an artist’s work.
Between his job at the North Dakota historical society, being a father to his 7-year-old son and brewing Laughing Sun’s six regular beers, Mike Frohlich has his hands full.
All of Gigantic’s labels are designed to look like the cover of a comic book, including the surreal, tripped out image created for The City Never Sleeps by children’s book author J. Otto Seibold.
A manufacturing engineer by day, Permen applies the logic of inputs and outputs to homebrewing. As scientific as that sounds, Permen credits his Homebrewer of the Year win mostly to luck.
The guys at DC Brau aren’t afraid to creep people out. So when it came time to conceptualize their next beer, the dark side was the first place they went.
Hugh Sisson has a lot on his mind: the growler bill he just passed through the Maryland Legislature, the 550 firkins sitting in his brewery and his robust (and expensive) barrel-aging program—not to mention his recent brand makeover.
The mythological art on Pipeworks’ Glaucus Belgian-style IPA can be traced back to a cartography exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Brothers Jim and Jason Ebel opened Two Brothers Brewing in 1997 as a family affair. Jim set up a distribution company out of his Ford Bronco. And on weekends, family and friends would bottle, label and package the beers.
Artist Adam Forman created the spooky imagery that’s been part of the brewery’s identity since it opened in 2004—from their toothy jack-o’-lantern logo to creepy scarecrows and pumpkin-patch graveyards.
At Jack’s Abby, the Framingham, Mass., brewery is truly a family operation—and if the brothers’ mom, Shelly, has it her way, they’ll be counting some Suffolk Punch horses in the family, too.
The new Merry Monks label is part of a major overhaul of Weyerbacher’s branding and the scene captures the mischief that in part defines Weyerbacher as a brand.
After 10 years of homebrewing, Megan Parisi went back to school. Her big break came from Cambridge Brewing Co. in Massachusetts, where she won five GABF medals. Now, Parisi is helming Bluejacket, the newest venture from DC-based Neighborhood Restaurant Group.
The label art for a new beer from Massachusetts-based Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project dips into the part-fictional, part-real life world Dann and Martha Paquette are constructing.
On December 16—her 28th birthday—Erny learned that she’d earned the title “Master Cicerone.” She’s the fourth and youngest person, and the first woman to pass the test.
The label design for Track #2 was created for the brewery’s series of beers inspired by rock anthems. The label started with Tomme Arthur’s idea to depict “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” by Guns N’ Roses, but morphed into Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.”
Coming up on its 20th anniversary, Uinta decided it needed a makeover. So between 2010 and 2011, they turned to local artists to redesign their logo and labels.
