Bottle date labels

[nigel6]

I am interested to note if anyone labels or marks their brew with the bottling date. I have 4 brews between primary and conditioning and thought it would be a good idea to labels the bottles in some way to record how long they have been conditioning.

 

[SloeBrewer]

I put the bottling date on all my beer and wine. It's a good reference point for comparing the change in flavour as time goes on.

 

[Robbo100]

I bought some 19mm diameter labels from amazon market place which I used to stick on the bottle caps.

I put them through my inkjet printer and label them with the bottling date and some silly names with a little personal logo (I don't get out much)!

The labels cost £2 ish for 500 or so, which is fairly cheap per bottle. They are sold as "LR 117/19 R" (I think). I downloaded a free bit of label software from cnet which does the job fine. Let me know if you want the name of the software.

 

[Moley]

My beers just get a brew number written on the crown caps with a permanent marker pen.

My wines are labelled with a reference number, variety, date started (month & year), bottling gravity and abv.

My wines are now numbered with year and brew within that year, so 1101 was the first wine I made in 2011 up to 1127 being the 27th and last wine started in 2011.

1201 was the first started in January 2012, up to 1218 started at the beginning of December.

Anything with a mere two digit consecutive number pre-dates 2011.

So I can get a pretty good idea just from that brew reference of how old my wines are. Bottling date is largely irrelevant but I can find that information in my notes folder.

 

[PD]

Chalk pens for me, write what you want on the bottle, washes easily off.

http://www.bhma.co.uk/catalogue-2/chalk ... -html.html

 

[LeedsBrewer]

Notepad paper cut into small pieces with "RGJ+Cranberry - 24/12/2012" written on and used a prit stick to glue it onto bottle.

For the first couple of batches i created propper labels and everything... soon got sick of doing that

 

[Springer]

My beers just get a brew number written on the crown caps with a permanent marker pen.

Works for me too, what could be easier? I put the numbers on before capping much easier than when on the bottle

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