Keira asked me if she could help me make labels for my beer. Since I had just bottled the remainder of my mead, that seemed a good place to start. She asked me what mead was, and I explained that it is made from honey and that the Vikings used to drink it. She asked what Vikings looked like, so we did a Google image search and found a few stereotypical images. She took it from there….
Based on her drawing, the "brand name" seemed obvious…
I rarely put any of my beer in bottles, so my labels are limited to the tap handles on my draft system. In the past, I’ve been pretty inconsistent in creating labels. But, since Kel kept asking which beer was at which tap, and since I was printing the labels for the mead bottles, I went ahead and made some tap handle labels. (I guess it would show it better if I took pictures of the tap handles…)
I made an IPA using a single hop variety, Santiam, to get a real feel for the flavors and aromas of that hop. I got a bit carried away with the bittering hops, so I did a Google image search on "bitter beer face". I was actually looking for this very guy (or a guy in a similar "pose")…
I knew that the Aztecs used cocoa, so I did a search on "Aztec chocolate" and learned that they used to have a drink called xoco lall that used both cocoa and vanilla. Seemed perfect for a chocolate vanilla stout. And it might even be true….
Finally, the previously mentioned (All but the) Kitchen Sink pale ale…
