homebrew label ideas?

This beer was inspired by Southern Tier's Hop Sun... I am guessing I did not have to mention that though

 

BeerLabelizer is neat, huh?

 

ISO: Passion Beer - The Entity

 

Sorry for the delayed response. I made this in Photoshop actually, but Illustrator would be easier for scaling. I created the labels extremely large so I could scale them down with clarity for 750 ml, 22 oz or 12 oz bottles. I use a laser jet printer which is great as none of the ink runs, even if the paper gets wet. The paper is standard printer paper, nothing fancy. I adhere them with a glue stick which works amazingly well. Holds on strong against water, etc. and comes off by running it under hot water. Easy clean-up and makes your bottles completely reusable without leaving any sticky mess behind.

It doesn't scan to anything on these, it's just 01234567890. My other labels I'm doing a custom QR code on that goes to my website.

Cheers!

 

Keg most of my beers but here are a few of my more recent bottles...

 

Post-it-notes are cool, but I'm even cheaper. I use colored highlighters to color code the top of the plop tops.

Can you top that for cheapness!?!?

 

Those look good. What are the dimensions of the full wrap bomber labels? Do you print on Avery labels or something, or do you print on regular paper, cut it out, and glue on?

 

Not sure what the exact dimensions are (often changes for each label), but I try to get 3-4 per sheet. Upload the file to Fedex/Kinkos and it costs ~75 cents a sheet. Often finished in an hours time or less. Cut, then glue them on with a glue stick. Very easy and worth the extra cost.

 

Is there some sort of "Beer Bottle Label" preset you can get or is that all by hand/scratch? I also find it surprising that you have just standard paper, it looks more like whatever the pros print on. Kudos to you and your talents, sir, they far surpass mine.

 

When I first started doing my labels, I peeled off the most rectangular looking label from a commercial beer bottle and measured it out with a ruler. Put those dimensions into Photoshop as my template size, and while keeping a constraint on the dimensions, simply increased it quite large and starting designing on that size. And yes, believe it or not, it's just good 'ole standard printing paper. I think the laser jet printer those makes them look very sharp, crisp and nice.

Thanks for the kind words!

 

Here's one I did a while back on textured paper. Looked pretty cool on the bottles. (The 'fade' was intentional, attempting to resemble a 'cave drawing.')

 

Here are the last two I made:

 

you guys are beastmode

 

Haven't done a label in years but these are some old ones.



Brewed in a city called Allston.



Mockup for an acquaintance.

 

Looks very Lawson's Finest-esque with a nice simple and homey touch to it. Sometimes these labels are the most appealing. Nice work! I was actually planning to brew this beer soon as well except I plan to ramp it up a bit to make it around 10-11%abv.

 

I don't homebrew, but if I did I would have to make a very hoppy beer called "I heard they recently decided to add more hops!" with this printed on the label. Feel free to steal this idea and make it better!