Homebrew Labels

Grogtag makes some beautiful stuff but it isn't cheap.

 

I get them printed on regular printer paper at FedEx/Kinkos, cut them to size & stick them on the bottle with milk.

 

Awesome - thanks for the responses! I've been wanting to do something like what rodenbach does for caractere rouge. Anyone have a source for some cool looking hang tags? Plenty on amazon, but I haven't found anything 'cool' other than buying some plain ones and burning em and doing some sort of custom wax stamp on em with handwritten descriptions.

 

If you have a printer with the adjustable guide for envelopes and such, you should be able to use an Avery postcard or create a single photo, and insert your art work for it. Once you have done that just use the guide to print it on parchment, and then burn the edges some... I might just steal that idea by the way.

 

I like the look of this a lot. Simple, modern, easy. I think I might steal it for a project i Have coming up.

 

Very nice. What did you print these on? Did you have to cut them out individually?

 

Awesome label man.

 

That´s some fancy homebrew! Looks great.

 

Love them, you should make shirts and stuff.

 

I don't usually create labels for myself, but I work part time (1 day every week or so) at a Brew on Premise and I do all of their label design for anyone who wants labels. I always try to make a logo for them and help them with names.

I started making the labels 4" X 3.33" but on a 22 oz bottle (the bottle of choice there) it looked a little dinky. So I started doing 5" X 3.5" which looks a bit nicer. Thats why there are two different sizes on some of these.















I also made a few for a recent fundraiser.





And some generic ones for the Brew on Premise




Etc. Sorry to hijack the post with a ton of images, I just really enjoy sharing what I do. Working in corporate marketing can get pretty tiresome, I make labels as a way to relax. Let me know what you think.

 

Is this meant to wrap around the bottle completely? What is the size on this? I really dig the artwork. Did you draw the cow?

 

Nice job. Though I always recommend against using Papyrus (i'm a bit of a font snob) I think they look good. I'm especially a fan of the sour series.

 

You'd be surprised. When you do something all day its hard to get motivated to open the programs and do it at home.

 

etching isn't hard to do at home but it is time consuming and I don't know how to do it easily on a mass scale.

Was there a template with that shape of paper? I usually use an avery sticker, I'm too lazy to cut out 52 labels.

 

Heard that.

 

Thanks man! It wraps all the way around a bottle and yes i drew the cow. I am a graphic design student and this was my final senior project. Its 7 inches wide and 3 tall.

 

Great job. Hope you got a good score on it.

 

Cool thread! I don't draw my labels but my girlfriend does, here is the first label she made for me!