labels
Shane
Thanks.
Scott
> Just wondering what people are using to stick home made labels on bottles.
>
> Thanks.
I use this paper. It slips off very easily by running the label under
hot water for several seconds and doesn't leave any glue residue behind.
Available in several colors. I design labels in Paint Shop Pro
(Windows Paint or any other "Paint" program works fine too). I run them
through my ink jet printer with no problems.
http://www.northernbrewer.com/default/catalogsearch/result/?q=label&x=11&y=8
Scott
Maybe I should have narrowed it down a bit...
http://www.northernbrewer.com/default/white-label-making-paper.html
cpw
> Scott wrote:
> > Shane wrote:
> >> Just wondering what people are using to stick home made labels on
> >> bottles.
>
> >> Thanks.
>
> > I use this paper. It slips off very easily by running the label under
> > hot water for several seconds and doesn't leave any glue residue behind.
> > Available in several colors. I design labels in Paint Shop Pro
> > (Windows Paint or any other "Paint" program works fine too). I run them
> > through my ink jet printer with no problems.
>
>
> Maybe I should have narrowed it down a bit...
>
> http://www.northernbrewer.com/default/white-label-making-paper.html
I also use this paper. Works great.
Find it here a little cheaper ...
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/products/ProdByID.aspx?ProdID=6053
mike
+rcb200...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> Shane wrote:
> >Just wondering what people are using to stick home made labels on bottles.
>
> and that's what I'm now using. Pour a little into a saucer and sponge it
> onto the label just before you apply it to the bottle.
>
> --
> I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be
> depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring
> them the real facts, and beer. -- Abraham Lincoln
I do not worry about labels as such. I use 3/4 inch cirular Avery
tabs. Using their template, keeping everything in the center, and
using 5 font, I can name the beer, insert an artwork, and indicate the
alcohol level. When I pop the cap off the bottle, gone is the "label."
Steve Bonine
> Just wondering what people are using to stick home made labels on bottles.
I don't use paper labels. I put a one- or two-character code on the
bottle cap using a sharpie. I have a small whiteboard where I write the
code and name of the beer when I bottle it. When the batch is drunk the
space on the whiteboard is reused.
Scott
>
> I do not worry about labels as such. I use 3/4 inch cirular Avery
> tabs. Using their template, keeping everything in the center, and
> using 5 font, I can name the beer, insert an artwork, and indicate the
> alcohol level. When I pop the cap off the bottle, gone is the "label."
Hey, now THAT's a pretty good idea! :)
jemphd
> Just wondering what people are using to stick home made labels on bottles.
>
> Thanks.
Print with a color inkjet and cut to size, then cover with clear
packing tape to attach to bottle. Clear, waterproof and comes off
easily once you get an edge started, which is not a bad pastime while
savoring your beer.
Bill O'Meally
> Just wondering what people are using to stick home made labels on
> bottles.
Painters' tape and a Sharpie.
--
Bill
"Wise fool."
Gandalf _The Two Towers_
(The Wise will remove 'se' to reach me. The Foolish will not!)
frater mus
> I've tried various glues, but the best results I've had are with milk
> and that's what I'm now using. Pour a little into a saucer and sponge it
> onto the label just before you apply it to the bottle.
Yup, milk and plain white paper.
--
brother mouse
composed offline and synced later.
http://www.mousetrap.net/mouse/offline.html
rabbits77
> Just wondering what people are using to stick home made labels on bottles.
labels. They are basically sticker paper labels(4 to a
sheet) with various color options.
You lay everything out in Word(or whatever)
and print them out on any printer.
They look decent but not quite "professional".
Steve Bonine
The responses to this thread on labels has prompted a different question
in my mind . . .
What happens to the beer you brew? Do you drink it yourself? Take it
to parties? Have lots of friends who help you imbibe? Take it to large
gatherings of homebrewers?
Based on what I'm reading, I am far from the norm in this area. I brew
beer with my brother-in-law, and the two of us consume the vast majority
of it. When we do have friends over, I generally pour the beer into
glasses to serve it. Only on rare occasions do the bottles leave my house.
Thus I see little reason to invest any effort in labeling. I am the
only one who sees the label, so as long as I know what's in the bottle,
that's all that matters. I just put a code on the cap. But I'm
inferring, from all of this fancy stuff that several people have posted,
that most homebrewers care how their bottles are labeled. This implies
that people other than you see the bottles, and I'm curious if that's
the case.
rabbits77
different people. Some of these people are likely
to not get around to drinking the beer for weeks if
not months.
As I see it the label serves a couple of purposes:
A reminder to people just what is in the
bottle and where it came from.
A way to make the beer a group activity
with my girlfriend. She usually has more fun
designing, printing, and applying the labels
than, say, lautering.
hophead
>
> Thus I see little reason to invest any effort in labeling. I am the
> only one who sees the label, so as long as I know what's in the bottle,
> that's all that matters.
I'm like you. I don't bottle very often, and when I do I don't even
bother to take the commercial label off, let alone add my own! The one
exception is bottling beers for competition, but in that case all I'm
doing is removing the label.
Lots of people drink my beers, but that's almost always from the keg. If
I'm bringing beer to a party I'll usually either bring a keg or fill
some PET bottles directly from the keg.
Bart Goddard
news:7mg8m6F...@mid.individual.net:
> What happens to the beer you brew?
My friends used to drink it. To solve this problem, I
changed my personality into a crotchety, know-it-all.
It took persistence, but I drove them all off. AND
STAY THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!!!
--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
Scott
>
> Take it
> to parties (or club meetings)? Have lots of friends who help you imbibe? Take it to large
> gatherings of homebrewers?
>
>
Yup. The members of our local homebrew club bring samples to each
monthly meeting. Without some sort of ID, it's dang near impossible to
keep track of what's what and who's is who's...
Scott
Dan Logcher
All of the above. I drink a good part of it myself. I bring some to
family gatherings and parties. I have friends come over and drink it
as well, and I bring some to large gatherings of homebrewers. Every
month is different, sometimes its more me or friends..
I keg my beers, so no labels involved. But I would bother labeling
much more than a few letters to determine the style of beer.. or even
the batch #.
--
Dan
frater mus
> I'm bringing beer to a party I'll usually either bring a keg or fill
> some PET bottles directly from the keg.
I've been thinking about filling a 2L bottle, squeezing to purge the
headspace, then capping with one of those "carbonator caps". Sound
reasonable?
frater mus
>> What happens to the beer you brew? Do you drink it yourself? Take it
>> to parties? Have lots of friends who help you imbibe? Take it to
>> large gatherings of homebrewers?
I drink most of my output, both in bottles and kegs. I've got about a
30 gallon backlog at the moment. Better get drinkin'.
Last year I worked in a blue-collar job and would (discreetly) package
beer to give to friends. Now I work in public schools and bringing beer
to work is a bit more problematic. I do take samples to my local club
from time to time for feedback.
Joel
>I've been thinking about filling a 2L bottle, squeezing to purge the
>headspace, then capping with one of those "carbonator caps". Sound
>reasonable?
Yup, that's the approved procedure!
--
Joel Plutchak
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any
other reason but because they are not already common." - John Locke
Joel
>frater mus <frat...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>>I've been thinking about filling a 2L bottle, squeezing to purge the
>>headspace, then capping with one of those "carbonator caps". Sound
>>reasonable?
>
> Yup, that's the approved procedure!
To be more explicit, what I do is fill, put the cap on,
squeeze while pushing down on the poppet to release all the
air, then hit with a shot of CO2 at around 15psi.
hophead
says...
> To be more explicit, what I do is fill, put the cap on,
> squeeze while pushing down on the poppet to release all the
> air, then hit with a shot of CO2 at around 15psi.
What he said.
I do use a carbonator cap for 2 litre bottles, though if I'm not
bringing much and the beer is being consumed right away I just fill &
go. It will lose some carbonation, but if it's getting consumed in short
order I don't really care too much.
frater mus
> To be more explicit, what I do is fill, put the cap on,
> squeeze while pushing down on the poppet to release all the
> air, then hit with a shot of CO2 at around 15psi.
Got it.
I've been putting the carb cap on, screwing /almost/ down, squeezing out
air, tightening cap.
I'll try the poppet method and see what I like best.
Rob P
That's what I do as well. I have a word file that gives me 5 lines
(Batch #, 2 lines for name, Brew date, bottle date)
I keep a lot of bottles in the basement, and as cases get near empty,
bottles get combined into different cases and it is nice to be able to
grab a bottle and know what's in it. The whiteboard idea would work
well, too.
Rock