Some people think that beer is beer; if only they checked the labels they would know better. How do you decide what to put on a label? What goes into the design and printing of them? Do you have to go to art school or major in design to create a beer label?

Try Out an Automatic Beer Labelizer

Yes it’s true; you can simply fill in the blanks and the automatic beer labelizer creates a label for your beer. This is an online service that allows you to choose your beer’s name and type; a couple of taglines such as, “Brewed in Milwaukee” and “by Jon Schmidt”; you can pick a striped label color from green, red and gray/blue; also state the volume and alcohol percentage per volume. Label designs to choose from are a German beer looking pilsner design with lions, wood grain, American Eagles, another pilsner with wheat stalks, a pilsner design was a royal crown, several unremarkable somewhat generic designs, a Heineken type design, my favorite-the skull and crossbones, and a beautiful Coca-Cola type pinup girl from the roaring twenties. Fun.

Personalized Beer Labels From the Web

As if that wasn’t enough fun, the Internet features yet another site that will print personalized beer labels for you with designs far too many to mention. You don’t have to know how to design anything because they do it for you. Looking at some of the designs on this website can actually teach you a few things about design itself. What attracts people’s attention? What are the best colors when it comes to an alcoholic, malt beverage? Should you go with cute or should you go with manly? Do you want your beer to appeal to women or men; or everyone?

Whichever way you choose to go, use someone else’s design or create one of your own, there are methods to the madness of beer labeling.