Jensen Haus Home Brewing

I know most of you who home brew have some sort method to label your bottles. I’ve been using plan old masking tap and a sharpie to mark whats in each bottle. I didn’t like the “prohibition” feel that this method gave but I wasn’t exactly thrilled about printing out labels and then soaking them off once the beer had been enjoyed. I decided that a good compromise would be a permanent generic “Jensen Haus” label and the masking tape labels to note what and from when was in the bottles. I found these labels online and they are billed as “permanent”, dishwasher safe and laser printable. I order up a package and found that they print very well in the laser printer and that they are incredibly sticky and that the laser printing does not rub off. Even with a wet finger. I applied these labels to a case of 1L swing-top brown bottles last night. I ran them through the dishwasher this afternoon so I could bottle my batch of Oatmeal Stout and they survived the dishwasher excellently. In fact, during the stout bottling, I overfilled a couple of bottles and the spilled stout wiped right off the labels. So after a successful trial run, I then applied these labels to all my bottles. (they don’t work on the Growlers.) I took some pics and you can check them out on Flickr. (they should be the in “beer/brewing” photostream in the upper right.)

The Oatmeal Stout not only smelled fantastic, it tasted fantastic as well. Can’t see through it and it has a nice roastedness to it as a good hearty stout should. I hope I can hold out two weeks for this batch to carbonate.