A collection by Zac Early

I was just sent some awesome Homebrew Labels from Zac Early out of Columbia, Missouri. Great to see homebrewers with some awesome artistic ability.  Here's his stuff/description:



The Wowee Zowee label is a big, sticky DIPA I did in commemoration of the Pavement album by the same name. The second image is of a barley wine I brewed in honor of my kid's first birthday. It's called Never Forget Barley Wine. She was born on 9/11 and I wanted to play with that date without creating something too offensive.





Never Forget



Wowee Zowee



He also has these labels posted on his blog, Building International Coalitions Through Beer and Pavement.  He is starting to use a stamper for the labels, great idea- anyone else use do labels this way?  On to the labels:

Simcoe-dependency - a single-hopped IPA



Big Black Bitter



Treble Kicker- First Rubber Stamp Label

I'd like to thank Greg at the Pour Curator for pointing us out to Zac.

Amarillo Armadillo

Ever since I started on my search for great beer, I have been a hop head.  One of the most intriguing flights of beer I ever had, was the Mikkeller Single Hop series.  I found out more about the different hops than I ever imagined.  One hop that I found that was a standout, was the Amarillo. I didn't know much about it before then, but have definitely enjoyed it since. So when it came time to brew an IPA, I decided to brew a single hop Amarillo IPA.  The name Amarillo Armadillo popped in my head as I was brewing, and it just stuck (I loved the alliteration).

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Sierra Marietta

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a classic beer, that has helped many people (including me) define the style.  For my first solo homebrew, I wanted to brew a beer that is easy to drink, and many people could enjoy.  So I thought of Sierra Nevada PA.  I pushed Centennial hops into the mix to boost the IBUs a bit, but didn't want to make it too bitter.  The town I moved to, once I left Baltimore, is named Marietta.  I thought that I would just replace Nevada with Marietta in the name, and use a picture of the field/farm that is behind my house as a nice label picture. (No, I did not use corn in the beer, even though it is on the label.)

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Adam Woehler Labels

Here is the first set of Labels, not from me-

I make labels for just about every beer I make, but I've attached my two favorites to start with.  A friend of mine, Dough Foht, is an engineer, and he made me a grain mill.  He is a big fan of whiskey/bourbon so I made him a bourbon honey ale in return.  I used a simplified Jack Daniel's logo as my base (and, yes, I know it is Tennessee Whiskey, not Bourbon, but I thought it looked better than a Jim Beane label).  The second label is for a hard apple cider.  I took a pic of a friend who helped me make it, and turned it into a bit apple for the label.

-Adam Woehler

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Wedding Beer

For my wedding, I brewed an Oktoberfest Ale as well as a American Wheat with coriander.  Both were extremely drinkable, coming in around 5.5% with slight bitterness.  The Oktoberfest highlighted the Hallertau and Saaz hops, while the Wheat was all Saaz.  No complaints from any of the guests.

 I just realized now that I never updated the OG.  It should have 1.064.

Welcome

Do you homebrew?  Do you make awesome labels for your homebrew?  Why not post them somewhere so that people can check them out?

Spurred by a post at Thank Heaven For Beer, asking if people create labels for homebrew, I decided to make a place for people to share their art.

So if you have a label that you want to share, please feel free to send it in.  Give me whatever information you want to go with it.  Tell me a bit about the beer, your brewing operation (hobby) and yourself- then let others enjoy your label.

Cheers.