12 beers later I created my label

[smileyak87]

Lol. Okay so I am starting homebrew this saturday and pick up my equipment and ingredients tomorrow. So I decided to name my brewery aka garage "sleepy dogs brewery" anyways I love this website and cant wait to have bottles upon bottles of homebrew

 

[Copbrew133]

Nice pic. Enjoy the homebrew.

 

[Ridire]

I love doing labels. They are a bit of a pain in the ass but I think it's neat to have a fridge full of bottles that don't look like Granny Clampet's elixir.

 

[dstranger99]

They're so cute at this age.............

 

[Ridire]

Oh, my first label had a pic of one of my dogs on it, too.

 

[dstranger99]

^

Me too, "Bernard's Brown Ale".... lol

 

[Ridire]

^ Me too, "Bernard's Brown Ale".... lol

"Regal Beast Porter".

 

[timrox1212]

What's the cheapest most efficient way to make labels on my computer? Like what paper do you use and stuff?

 

[smileyak87]

I am going to use the avery 8164 peel n stick shipping labels which is what my label is formatted in already

 

[Ridire]

I am going to use the avery 8164 peel n stick shipping labels which is what my label is formatted in already

I do the same thing. On the most recent batch, I took a towel and soaked in dish soap water and pressed the sticky side to the towel before putting them on the bottles. They come off way easier that way. But I have a color laser printer...not sure how ink would hold up to that.

 

[doctormiah]

I have been told that using computer paper and applying the labels using milk allows them to come off without any adhesive residue. Anyone used this technique?

 

[smileyak87]

Updated labels

 

[troy2000]

Maybe I should use this pic on a label, for 'Lazy Daze Brewery.'

 

[troy2000]

Could put this on a "Hits the Spot IPA"...

 

[smileyak87]

Could put this on a "Hits the Spot IPA"...

http://s32.photobucket.com/user/troybytheriver/media/008-3.jpg.html

Bad ass pic

 

[troy2000]

Bad ass pic

That's one of my babies: a Russian 91/59 Mosin Nagant, firing some old Soviet bloc surplus ammo - Hungarian, I think. Talk about slow-burning and dirty... I emptied the powder from one shell into a beer cap, lit it and wound up with a stack of carbon, like a min-version of the July 4th 'snake' pellets we used to light when I was a kid. Of course, it was meant to be used in the longer-barreled versions, not a carbine.



Here's its big brother: a 1916 M91 built by New England Westinghouse for the Czar's army, but never delivered. Someone had bubba'ed the stock, so I replaced it with a pre-WW2, Arctic birch stock from Finland



I guess I better stop hijacking the thread with gun pron....

 

[smileyak87]

That's one of my babies: a Russian 91/59 Mosin Nagant, firing some old Soviet bloc surplus ammo - from Hungary, I think. Talk about slow-burning and dirty... I emptied the powder from one shell into a beer cap, lit it and wound up with a stack of carbon, like a min-version of the July 4th 'snake' pellets we used to light when I was a kid. Of course, it was meant to be used in the longer-barreled versions, not a carbine.

http://s32.photobucket.com/user/troybytheriver/media/090.jpg.html

Here's its big brother: a 1916 M91 built by New England Westinghouse for the Czar's army, but never delivered. Someone had bubba'ed the stock, so I replaced it with a pre-WW2, Arctic birch stock from Finland

http://s32.photobucket.com/user/troybytheriver/media/DSC00119-1.jpg.html

I guess I better stop hijacking the thread with gun pron....

I'm alaskan so of course I love guns lol. No concelaed carry permit required and can drive 5 minutes from my house to an "alaska style" shooting range lol

 

[TangoHotel]

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