Show us your homebrew labels

Does a Sharpie on a bottle cap count?

 

Pics, or it didn't happen.

 

I’m really into horror movies and found some inspiration to make these labels..

these are my first ever to make. Will write beer name,bottle date,abv,etc in the blank space and pass them to my Friends or at beer shares.

 

That's my jam too.

 

I bought a job lot of those little coloured dot stickers and put them on the caps.

I like the idea of creating beautiful, evocative label designs, but I really can't be doing with actually printing them out and sticking them on, particularly for stuff that's just going to get randomly boshed at home.

 

One of my 1970s designs - so pre-home computer/printer and Photoshop - back when the "handmade/amateur" look was popular in the hobby (and, hey, when I went by the alias "Steve" - homebrewing was still illegal after all ).

Hand-drew a "master" with several different labels on it and I'd then go to a local print shop (pre-Kinko's?) and have them run them off on different colored paper.

 

Yep.

 

Did you make these yourself or use an online maker?

I like them.

 

Damn! Some of these are awesome! I usually don’t even label mine and just hope I remember .
If I actually need to make a pretty one, I outsource the labor to my wife. Observe a wife label (left) vs a typical Johnny label (right).

 

Too much work... Just use different colored caps and if need to reuse one, put it on the other end of the shelf.

 

What about kegs?

 

Honestly, I dislike kegging. Every time I have done it, it has been a pain to get the carbonation right. I did build a kegerator, so will keep the two kegs I have, but right now both are empty.

Bottles all the way!

 

Set it and forget it.

 

If you know the actual temperature of the beer and the volumes of CO2 you want, nothing could be simpler. Assuming your regulator's low pressure gauge is accurate, and you wait, you will hit the target CO2 level. You can't not.