Custom beer labels for bottles, cans, and growlers – condensation-ready materials, TTB-aware layouts, and G7 color that holds batch after batch.
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White Graphics prints custom beer labels for craft breweries, contract brewers, and beverage startups — bottles, cans, growlers, and everything in the cooler. Every beer label is laid out with the federally mandated statements in place, printed on materials that shrug off ice-chest water and can-line condensation, and color-managed so your flagship looks identical batch after batch. We are a G7® Master Certified printer in Naperville, Illinois, where every beer label is prepped, printed, and finished in-house — one team, one color standard, every batch.
Beer label sizes for bottles, cans, and growlers
Beer labels are cut to your package, not to a fixed catalog. We produce front-and-back sets for 12 oz bottles, full wraps for 12 oz and 16 oz cans, growler and crowler formats, and keg collars — with die lines drawn to the actual container spec so the wrap seams land where they should.
Shapes
Rectangle, square, rounded-corner, oval, circle, and custom die-cut shapes — including full can wraps with clean overlap seams.
Materials
Wet-strength bright white paper, durable white film for cold and wet service, 100% recycled kraft, and textured stocks for barrel-aged and premium series.
Finishes
Gloss, matte, and soft-touch laminates plus spot-gloss accents — chosen to survive handling, coolers, and condensation without scuffing.
Formats
Pressure-sensitive singles and roll labels wound to your applicator’s unwind direction for automated bottling and canning lines.
Canning line or hand-application? Tell us with your quote — roll direction, core size, and material change with the answer.
Built for the cooler, the ice chest, and the can line
Beer packaging gets wet. Cans sweat the moment they leave refrigeration, bottles sit in ice at every tailgate, and filling lines splash. A standard dry-goods label wrinkles, hazes, or peels in that service. We spec beer labels the way the package actually lives: wet-strength papers and white film substrates paired with cold-temperature, moisture-tolerant adhesives, laminated so ink and artwork stay sharp through an evening in the ice chest. The label sells the second beer — it has to still look right when someone reaches back into the cooler.
Batch-to-batch color consistency
Craft buyers find their favorite by the artwork before they read the name — and a flagship whose can looks different this month reads as a different beer. Because our presses are G7® Master Certified, your brand colors hold precisely from the pilot batch to every reorder, across bottle labels, can wraps, and keg collars alike. One color standard, every format, every run.
Laid out to federal malt-beverage labeling rules
Beer sold across state lines generally needs a Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) from the TTB, and the label itself has to carry a specific set of statements — formatted, placed, and sized the way the TTB’s labeling rules say. White Graphics lays out each element to spec so your artwork is submission-ready:
- Brand name and class designation — the name the beer sells under, plus its class (beer, ale, lager, stout, malt liquor, and the rest).
- Name and address — the bottler or packer statement tied to your brewer’s notice.
- Net contents — fluid-ounce declaration, positioned correctly on bottle, can, or growler.
- Alcohol content — formatted to the federal standard where you state it; state rules differ on whether it’s required, and we set it to the strictest market you sell into.
- Government warning — the mandatory health warning statement, set bold, separate, and at the required minimum type size for your container.
Can wraps add their own wrinkle: mandatory copy has to stay out of the seam overlap and off the curve distortion near the rims — our prepress team positions the required statements on the die line, not just the flat art, so nothing gets swallowed when the label meets the can. We prepare the label to your approved specifications — your licensing or compliance advisor confirms the regulatory filings.
Every package in the lineup
We print pressure-sensitive beer labels for 12 oz and 22 oz bottles, 12 oz and 16 oz can wraps, growlers and crowlers, keg collars, variety-pack case labels, and taproom sticker and merch runs. Rotating series work especially well as pressure-sensitive runs — same die, new artwork every release. For curved-glass fit details, see our bottle labels engineered to fit. Browse the full custom-label lineup, or see related categories such as wine labels, spirits labels, and variable data labels for numbered or batch-coded releases.
Beer label file setup: bleed, seams, and die lines
Good print starts with a good file. Beer labels need correct bleed, a safe zone that keeps mandatory statements off the trim and out of the wrap seam, a die line drawn to the real bottle or can, and artwork supplied as print-ready vector (PDF, AI, or EPS) at 300 dpi in CMYK. If you have a print-ready file, we run it; if you don’t, our prepress team can prep the artwork, set the die line, and position the government warning and net-contents copy correctly — so the file is right the first time.
Beer label FAQs
What has to be on a beer label?
Federal rules require the brand name, a class designation, net contents, the bottler’s name and address, and the government health warning — plus alcohol content formatted to standard where stated. We lay all of them out to spec as part of prepress.
Do you print can wraps as pressure-sensitive labels?
Yes. Full wraps for 12 oz and 16 oz cans run as pressure-sensitive labels with clean overlap seams — a strong fit for craft volumes and rotating series, where printed cans would demand truckload quantities.
Will the labels survive an ice chest?
They can. We spec wet-strength papers or white film stocks with cold-temperature, moisture-tolerant adhesives and durable laminates, so the label stays adhered and legible through refrigeration, condensation, and submersion in ice water.
Can you do short runs for seasonal and taproom releases?
Yes. Beer label printing is available in quantities suited to one-off releases, seasonals, and test batches — and because the die stays the same, each new release is just new artwork on the same setup.
Do you support automated canning and bottling lines?
Yes. Roll labels are wound to your applicator’s unwind direction and core spec, and we confirm both before the run so the rolls drop straight onto your line.
Can you match our brand colors across bottles, cans, and kegs?
Yes. Our presses are G7® Master Certified, so the same brand color reproduces precisely across every format and every reorder.
What file format do you need?
Print-ready vector artwork — PDF, AI, or EPS — at 300 dpi in CMYK, with correct bleed and a die line drawn to your can or bottle. If your file isn’t there yet, our prepress team can prepare it for you.
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