Home Distiller

Do you label your products and if so, what do you use?

I'm not a big drinker and mostly give the stuff I make to friends and family. I leave very little in mason jars, and mostly make rye, brandy, and fruit flavored rums. I've been using labels printed on Avery adhesive paper applied to 750ml bordeaux bottles. I've got a Xerox Phaser printer which uses solid ink(think melted crayons) so even if it gets wet it doesn't smear.

Secondly, if I run it in 2012 and have it sitting on oak until 2013 when it gets bottled, what year do I put on the bottle?

I have different types of bottles for different drinks so don't always label. I label when aging with type and month/year I started aging both with sticky tabs on barrels and erasable chalk pen on mason jars. I don't worry about the year once it's bottled it's ready to drink.

I label with painter's tape with they type and date. Been thinking about prettier labels but haven't done anything.

I've gone to a Sharpie with simple writing on the glass, then a dab of high abv will clean it right off when you change something. Once I'm done and ready to package for consumption a Sharpie on the lid. Crude... I know, but I think it adds to the "charm", plus I'm not into labels.

I guess I'm in the Sharpie club too... It never stays around long enough for a real label

sharpie date proof style

Painters tape and sharpi or sharpi on the glass. I also picked up some new canning labels ball sells now. For gifting it looks a little better. They are removable with water. So cleaning them off afterwards is a lot easier.

I lable mine with Painters tape, with the type, jar no. out of the still, date, and abv.%, written with a sharpie.

The stuff I have hidden...I do the same (piece of tape or stickie taped down written with sharpie). But, the stuff I keep in the place for drinking...is in a commercial tequila bottle. Anybody who knows me...knows I don't drink tequila. Bout had a fit trying to finish/give away the tequila in the bottom just so I could use the bottle! I also have a silver pocket flask for taking the edge off.

I use a label printer to make small labels. Name, abv, that kinda stuff. My son made a great ... label? Like what you see on professional distiller's bottles. Black & white, with a sailing ship. ABV, what's in it (geneva, vodka, whiskey, etc.), and a description. I will try to post a picture later on. Looks great!

Odin.

This is what I use

http://homedistiller.org/forum/download ... &mode=view

I just use those stick on label you can get at the office supply.

I keep lots of records and my labels reflect that. Dates, time on oak, etc. I can refer every bottle back to mashing and distilling notes.

Big R

I'm a Sharpie man

sharpie on my gallon jugs and jars for stripping/aging print lables on finished proofed bottles.
Paper stuck on with glue stick (comes off instantly with hot water)
Logo, Flash name, type, ABV and date bottled.

i wrote on barrels with a lumber crayon,that was a mistake ,after some time the color fades to nothing,but the wax is still there so if you spray with water it does show up.

pretty much a silver sharpie..... but I have been thinking about finding a nice ipad app for making real labels and prettying them up a bit

I print labels for bottles I give out, but all my private use stuff is sharpie on painters tape.

For bottles I give as gifts, I like to print a label for three reasons. One, it looks nicer, in a gift looks count. Two, possession of untaxed alcohol is also illegal so a pretty label makes it less obvious that the hooch is homemade to a casual observer. Three, sometimes I like to brag. Big distillers do it, and they have less to brag about. How many liquor bottles claim things like "hand crafted" "single barrel" or "private reserve"? My rum and whiskey is all those things, also my rye whiskey (all one batch of it, so far) is made from locally grown organic grain that I malt myself. Granted, that is just for cost saving reasons, but damn if I won't brag about it on the label.

post-it notes

I am a painters tape and sharpie guy when aging but for stuff that's going to be gifted I use an online label maker.

These are a couple of good ones:
http://www.beerlabelizer.com/
http://www.beerlabelcreator.com/

I'm a sharpie. Foreshots to erase.

I play hockey a few times a week so I have miles of hockey tape. Product gets a wrap around the jar then the sharpie.

hereare some I made