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I use this. have been my go-to for over a year now.

Personally, a little more expensive than the Avery stuff, but way more durable and they look hella nicer. Comes off bottles very cleanly for reuse as well. Print it with a photo/laserjet printer.

Also, you can contact Neato directly about buying in bulk and they'll cut you a sweet price break, plus free shipping (although, not 2-day).

And waterproof (to a great degree).

I'm serving all homebrew at my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding (Wedding's June 29), as well as including some bottles in the hotel welcome bags for out-of-town guests.

Been brewing these since the middle of January, and finally finished up labeling them all tonight.

All counted and boxed up, ended up 184(!!!) beers.

This is for a rehearsal dinner with about 40 guests, some of which are little kids who won't be drinking, and some of whom will be drinking wine or no alcohol at all.

I think i may have gone a bit overboard... Good problem to be have, I suppose.

Edit: Some inspiration taken from various labels on this page

Edit2: Because they needed to survive in an ice chest, I used Avery 5524 Waterproof Laser Labels. They worked really well, other than being just slightly too big to fit on the shorter Boulevard/Sierra Nevada type bottles. I just slapped them on anyway, they don't look awful, just a bit off.

Great questions! You know, I don't remember the size off the top of my head. I did some paper test labels to get the size right. I designed the label in photoshop and printed it with a laser printer. I use this waterproof sticker paper, which I absolutely love: http://www.amazon.com/100-Label-Outfitters-Weatherproof-Waterproof/dp/B003KMZ6OA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1401853117&sr=8-5&keywords=waterproof+sticker+paper+laser

The recipe was:

• 8 honey crisp - 4.5lbs
  
• 10 pink lady - 3.5lbs
  
• 10 Red Delicious - 5.5lbs
  
• 10 fuji - 5lbs
  
• 10 Gala - 3.5lbs
  
  Cored the apples, and cut them into wedges with one of these, then put them in a 20 quart pot. Filled the pot halfway up with clean water, and turned the heat to high with the lid on. My wife threw in about a tablespoon of cinnamon and a half tablespoon of allspice into a jelly strainer bag, and left it in the middle of the pot. After about an hour we turned the heat down to keep the water at a simmer, then a half hour later the apples were pretty much completely steamed, so we removed the lid and started mashing them with a potato masher. After that we drained the liquid into a separate 10 quart pot through a large strainer. That part took quite a while, and eventualy we were putting ladles of apple mush into a separate smaller strainer and using the back of the ladle to press the juices through while the pulp got mostly caught by the larger strainer. The apple mush went into yet another pot, and turned into apple sauce. After all was said and done, we had just about a gallon of really good cider. To ferment, we used a packet of montrachet yeast, a teaspoon of diammonium phosphate, a quarter teaspoon of tannin, a teaspoon of fermax yeast nutrient, and a half teaspoon of pectic enzyme. It's fermenting in a Carlo Rossi jug.

I have this book I picked up for motivation of label designs, and this can by Stern's really caught my eye. It's minimal with purpose. The yellow backdrop represent's the SRM of the beer, and the white top advertises the brewer in big, bold letters. The sideways text which provides brewery info now provides my own description of the beer and style. It's clean, non-invasive and gets everything out there without clutter.

What do you think?

Thanks! I should have mentioned! Designed in Photoshop. Label size is 3.5"x4.5" for the hefeweizen and 3.5"x3.5" for the other two. Printed on regular copy paper with a laser jet printer. Glued on with a very, very light application of Mod Podge. In a test, this stuff came off relatively easy with some hot water and light scrubbing. It's a diluted white glue used for crafting.

something like this might work https://www.amazon.com/Avery-Print-Glossy-Square-22853/dp/B01M8OLVEV?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01M8OLVEV&pd_rd_r=97VZ9FEQ6ZP3P841QATV&pd_rd_w=4UceF&pd_rd_wg=8YItB&psc=1

That's exactly what I did!

Eyelets - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071HNWV54
Tool - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EWPYXG

Based on the thread I ended up using (strong upholstery thread), even smaller eyelets would have worked.

You could also use something like THIS but you would be stuck with the same size/shape tag for every batch and would have to make sure to line it up correctly when punching out an already-printed sheet of tags.

I was wondering if printing on nice paper and using these was an option. But I'm not exactly sure what they are. I'm imagining them to be some sort of thin laminate type. But I really don't know