Hump's Brewing

I mentioned in my previous post that I was redoing the bottle label graphics I’ve made for my homebrews. In addition to redoing some of the labels, I’m also creating several new labels – for beers that I had brewed but for which I’d never made labels. Here are some of my top picks – some old and refurbished, some new.

Holiday brews:

To celebrate our wedding (Marla and Miles are our dogs’ names):

Devilishly good beer:

To celebrate my sister’s wedding (K, and her now-husband Cass):

A recently brewed stout that is delicious:

My first batch of kegged homebrew:

Recently I’ve begun redoing my homebrew labels. Several years ago I created a fictitious beer brand named “Hump’s” and created fancy bottle labels for this brand. Using some of the cool features of Photoshop that I’ve only recently learned, I revamped them (though the differences are subtle). The labels you’ll find in the Brews section of this site are my revamped labels.

Coincidentally, I just came across a link to the article in Brew Your Own Magazine, covering a homebrew label competition, wherein one of my labels was printed (I even got a prize for it). Here is the link to that article, and here is the label that was printed:

Behold, my new draft homebrew setup!

Will, my 2-year-old son, inspecting the system for leaks:

I took some of my first batch of draft brew into work this week. Only a few folks were able to take 20 minutes out of their busy day to come and try some, so I ended up having some to take back home. I discovered that taking a “growler” (or in this case a 2-liter plastic soda bottle) full of draft beer is difficult. Some CO₂ is released when you dispense the beer (hence the head you typically see on a glass of beer), and the remaining CO₂ quickly vacates the beer in favor of the head space at the top of the bottle. I have no way to pressurize the bottle (which would keep the beer properly carbonated). So what I took to the office was less than stellarly carbonated.