Karl Grandin and the Label Art of Omnipollo
When you put your blood, sweat, and tears into your passion project, you have to make concessions into the commercial aspects of production. What I love about Omnipollo in Sweden is they put the art of the product first. By brewer Henok Fentie’s own admission, sometimes the ingredients they use don’t scale in an economical […]
9 Winter Beer Labels Better Than The One in Your Fridge
To have a standout beer label in the holiday season, you need to push the envelope to compete on the store shelves. Many breweries are content to add a Santa hat to their company mascot and adapt their label formula to the season. Others try to break the mold. These are the Winter beer labels […]
Pipeworks Brewing Reaper Vs. Unicorn Label
Having just subdued the unicorn by slicing it thirds with his mighty scythe, he turns his back on the decapitated and disemboweled horned horse. This proves to be the Reaper’s undoing. This pointy equid is not so easily dispatched. The ages-old spirit of the beast rises up from its horse corpse and lunges its ethereal […]
Derek Riggs and Robinsons Brewery Trooper Label
The Trooper is a beer “created by Iron Maiden” according to the Robinsons website. It seems that lead singer Bruce Dickinson is a big fan of craft beer and his input went into the making of this British ESB. The Trooper label features cover art from the Iron Maiden single of the same title. The […]
Phineas Jones and Half Acre Brewery
For anyone paying attention, or those of us lucky enough to be witness to the rapidly erupting Chicago craft beer scene, you’ve certainly noticed the mind-blowing beer label illustrations featured on Half Acre Brewery’s amazing bottles and cans. You might be surprised to know that all of these gorgeous and often very weird images come […]
10 Spooky Pumpkin Beer Labels Better Than The One In Your Fridge
Right about this time of year, the shelves of beer purveyors are laden with images of pumpkins and grinning jack o’lanterns. The season of the pumpkin beers is in full swing and so also, pumpkin beer labels. Here are 10 of my favorite labels: Contents#10 Terrapin Pumpkinfest#9 Sam Adams Fat Jack Double Pumpkin#8 Flying Dog […]
How To Remove Beer Can Labels, Intact, In 5 Minutes
One of our most popular posts here at TB is “How to Remove Bottle Labels, Intact, in 15 Minutes”, so we know lots of our readers are saving the labels from their favorite beers. That said, cans are becoming much more popular with breweries for lots of reasons. Well, we did the research and you’ll […]