Northumberlandmonkey
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I just nock up any label I fancy and always use black white as it's 10p sheet at my local library
Just started brewing a few months ago but I've been messing around with a brewery concept. I have my 3rd, 4th, and 5th beers fermenting right now, and I plan to bottle them and give them as holiday gifts this year.
I drew some sketches on my iPad for the graphics of each beer, and mocked them up in Keynote on my Mac. I also built a little website, tinfoilhatbrewery.com
Thought it would be fun to come up with a cohesive theme that unifies it all, I took some inspiration from Revolution and their hero series of beers but chose a story a little closer to my heart (I work in cybersecurity).
What software/tool did you use to create these labels? They look amazing!
Very nice! Love the hand drawing look. I think they would look even more fantastic with a neck label with the brewery name rather than the label above the label. Just my opinion.
Thanks.
I use GIMP (you can get this for free) with free plug-ins for fonts and texture brushes. There are a lot of layers on each label. The same thing can be accomplished by paying more than you need to for Photoshop....
I am hopefully putting out an article soon for the front page on labels that will explain more.
Awesome, thanks for the info. And what do you print them on/how do you get them on your bottles? Sorry for all the questions!
Awesome, thanks for the info. And what do you print them on/how do you get them on your bottles? Sorry for all the questions!
The PB&J one is my favorite label.
Thanks man. I can't take 100% credit for all of the designs...
The latest batch of beers finally got labels:
1. third northern brewer/vienna smash, quickly becoming our house ale, recipe originally by @deathbrewer
2. my first porter, based on @edwort bee cave robust porter
3. a chocolate vanilla stout, left-over coopers kit i got for 1 buck at the sales store, date was running out, so they couldn't sell it full price any more.
Those look very nice. I especially like "hibernation".
Here are a few seasonals. The brown was for a farm dinner I catered beer for, and the other two are my 'holiday' beers.
You really nailed the font on this one! All of them look great, but this one I especially like. Keep at it!
Gotta love your labels Kharnynb. Did that batch I "helped with" work out?
My first ever brew, CitraSMaSH, is almost through primary fermentation, need to come up with a label for it in the next month or so... =)
EDIT: Will probably end up being very close to this draft, if not indeed this one exactly.
Oh dear, I may just be getting slightly too excited about this whole thing...
Gotta love your labels Kharnynb. Did that batch I "helped with" work out?
My first ever brew, CitraSMaSH, is almost through primary fermentation, need to come up with a label for it in the next month or so... =)
EDIT: Will probably end up being very close to this draft, if not indeed this one exactly.
id be pretty scared of three naked dudes with big hammers...
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