Home made bottle labels

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This one if for my smugglers spiced sugar rum
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Text-only label maker. On lid and jar.
Only because I have one already and don't feel like applying/removing fancier labels.
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Got likered up one night and made these:

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stillin' when I shoulda been buyin'
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Awesome!
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Bottleneck label. Still working on design of main.
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That is awesome
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Chixter wrote:Bottleneck label. Still working on design of main.
Are you hand cutting that label or did you find precut? I'm trying to find a shape that works with a round bottle.

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Oldvine Zin wrote:I'm trying to find a shape that works with a round bottle.
I just used a site called labely.com. You can pick their stock label shapes, images etc, or upload your own. Edit them to fit on your label and DL the finished image. All free. I can now print the image on label paper stock. Quite easy.
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I think the site is actually "labeley.com". I just looked it up and I'm anxious to check it out. Thanks for the tip!
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Do 'Sharpies' count?
  
 
 
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heynonny wrote:Do 'Sharpies' count?

If your calligraphy is good enough.

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With that sharpie I write the date, the approxamate # pint since begin, % or proof at end of that pint. I stick my lil finger in the stream & taste, often, sometimes that stuff tastes so good I write a 'V' or 'VG' on the jars & set them aside. I occaisionally give some away, I'll write 'Andres Perro Blanco' or things like that. For one friend, I draw a skull & crossbones and write 'Rat Poison'
  
 
 
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Get a copy of inkscape.org
Find a logo creation tutorial like this one (there are many out there)
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Print on regular paper with laser or inkjet, cut out with paper cutter or scissors.
Brush milk on the back of the paper and stick the label to your bottle.
Let dry a few hours and hand out samples to all your friends.

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Jimbo was the best at the seduction label. I would look at the label then find out what she was selling.

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Hi Guys , so what do you do with your finished product? Do you gob a post-it on it , write on the bottle with a magic marker? If you want to gift someone with a bottle of your hooch, why not create a pretty label for it ?
All you need is a free DTP , and a spray can of paper varnish . You can find images , photos engravings on Google search , it supports .png files too which is a useful transparent background .Simply put you creation together and most print facilities will let you size it before printing , then spray it with the varnish , gives it a slightly glazed look , and gum it onto your re-purposed bottle. Here are a few I made earlier . esxman





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Your labeling way is pretty nice! :thumbup:

Sometimes I create smth. like that...
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But more often I do it in a more stupid way, like here )))

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Nice ones! And fancy bottles too!
To me it's one of the attached joys of distilling: making labels.
In the old days I drew them myself, so I learned to look very precise at plants and berries and grains. Now I am lazy and get the pictures from all around on internet.
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I used to glue laser printed labels on my beer/wine bottles with milk when I made some to be shared.
Booze labels were little to non existent, but made a few a glazed paper for laser printer and glued them with diluted water glue.
I'm very bad at label design.... :)
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:?

Maybe, you are not bad but only laconic at it?..

My beer labels, laser printed:
it was the very estery ale, R.I.P. :(
it was the very estery ale, R.I.P. :(

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VLAGAVULVIN , Well done , sometimes the label is more interesting than what is inside the bottle , will certainly try your pepper recipe , because I have good friends here Egor and Maia , they like a drop of Vodka , I am sure they would recognise your drink . Well done with the labels boys , I'm glad I am not the only one who upcycles drink bottles ! esxman
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Hey esxman, thank you. Frankly speaking, I've stolen that design idea in Scotland:
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Good luck to you with Pertsovka and greets to your friends there. :wave:

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Very nice work Gentlemen. I certainly need to step up my game.


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My corn-oats-barley bourbon:
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I merged this thread with an older thread on labels to try and keep information together.
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still_stirrin wrote:My corn-oats-barley bourbon
Looks balanced and steady.

Talking of the contents :) did you use any sugar colorant, like E150 or home-made for reaching this saturated color?

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VLAGAVULVIN wrote:
still_stirrin wrote:My corn-oats-barley bourbon
Looks balanced and steady.

Talking of the contents :) did you use any sugar colorant, like E150 or home-made for reaching this distillate color?
Looks like just some oak age to me - why would want to add colorant to something that that you are going to drink yourself ?

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VLAGAVULVIN wrote:...Talking of the contents :) did you use any sugar colorant, like E150 or home-made for reaching this saturated color?
No “fake bake” methods, just 2 years on some charred oak staves. Aging....the “genuine” old-fashion way. Oh, and the time on oak reveals its beauty even better when poured. It is so smooth even at 90 proof...no bite, no burn...just a rich whiskey flavor.
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Bushman , well done for merging the threads on this subject , I did not realise so many artists , and I dont mean p.artists ! have gone before . Some of these designs do knock the commercial ones into a cocked hat .Love the humor that people express in these labels , they truly finish the job off properly ! esxman
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Had to drag these out from a couple of months ago:
Thinking about this for my Wheated Whiskey:
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Maybe this for the gumball Gin:
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Also, Odin recently showed back up with a new idea he's working on.
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and saving the best for last, for my ironheaded friend Copperhead:
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Oldvine Zin wrote: Looks like just some oak age to me - why would want to add colorant to something that that you are going to drink yourself?
Oh, folks! On no account I wished to offend anybody. Just let me remind you that in Europe we work with already used post-bourbon or post-sherry oak. In that way 16yrs. old Scotch looks slightly straw-colored only.
still_stirrin wrote: No “fake bake” methods, just 2 years on some charred oak staves. Aging....the “genuine” old-fashion way. Oh, and the time on oak reveals its beauty even better when poured.
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My most oaky one that is just 3 years old now:
slightly charred oak staves
slightly charred oak staves
America and Europe have different oak species, yeah... besides, I had some funny experience to get "wet burnt matches" of my smoky distillate. Since then I haven't been "charcoaling" my staves as much as to get surplus aldehydes.

But it's on the one's own taste. Sorry for the off-top here. :oops:

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