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A few weeks ago my son and his girlfriend helped me bottle last year's Metheglin. This was a brand new experience for her and she had fun!
This one started as a Metheglin (Mead with spice [cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves]), but I got the idea to backsweeten undiluted frozen apple juice concentrate. Technically it's a Cyser, so I named it Metheglin/Cyser. After I printed the labels I realized that "Apple Metheglin" makes more sense, but oh, well.
This one started as a Metheglin (Mead with spice [cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves]), but I got the idea to backsweeten undiluted frozen apple juice concentrate. Technically it's a Cyser, so I named it Metheglin/Cyser. After I printed the labels I realized that "Apple Metheglin" makes more sense, but oh, well.
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Junior
For this summer sipper I created a label to remind us of our recent vacation. 
This was a FWK. Label done by Noon Time, art by me.View attachment 1000001969.jpg
I participated in the beta program for the FWK Ultima line, recently bottling the Zinfandel.
Finding a background for the label can be difficult, due to my format -- winery name and tagline at the top center, logo, start/bottling dates, and ABV at the bottom. The trick is finding a background on which the lettering displays well. I found this photo, which looks great ... except the original sky was too short and it was too bright -- from experience it would look garish on the printed label.
The TL/DR version is I munged a separate sky with the photo.
The long version? I carefully erased all the sky from the photo using Paint.NET. Some of the tree tops were weirdly shaped and colored, so I cut/pasted tree tops over them, and on the size of my labels, it looks fine. The sky was a bit to bright so I faded it (using Paint.NET) and layered the photo on top of it, and saved as a PNG. Note: I'm not an artist or graphic designer; rather, I'm a "mess with it until it works or I get too frustrated" sort of person.
And here I thought that was your place!View attachment 116133
I participated in the beta program for the FWK Ultima line, recently bottling the Zinfandel.
Finding a background for the label can be difficult, due to my format -- winery name and tagline at the top center, logo, start/bottling dates, and ABV at the bottom. The trick is finding a background on which the lettering displays well. I found this photo, which looks great ... except the original sky was too short and it was too bright -- from experience it would look garish on the printed label.
The TL/DR version is I munged a separate sky with the photo.
The long version? I carefully erased all the sky from the photo using Paint.NET. Some of the tree tops were weirdly shaped and colored, so I cut/pasted tree tops over them, and on the size of my labels, it looks fine. The sky was a bit to bright so I faded it (using Paint.NET) and layered the photo on top of it, and saved as a PNG. Note: I'm not an artist or graphic designer; rather, I'm a "mess with it until it works or I get too frustrated" sort of person.
And freebie wine kits? Good
On you!
I don't know how many people LP had doing the beta testing, but from emails with Matt, they took the feedback very seriously. The Ultima line is not cheap, but the wine at bottling didn't taste like a kit.
FWK Australian Red Blend
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