This year alone, 29,500 individually designed beer labels have been submitted for approval to the Trade Department’s Tax and Trade Bureau. And every single one of those label designs was approved or ...

This excerpt is from Joshua M. Bernstein’s Drink Better Beer, which is available now. As America closes in on being home to 8,000 breweries, beer labels are becoming more and more important as a way ...

El Greco, the great painter and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, was gazing at the night sky when he declared, "Art is everywhere you look for it." And, indeed, it is right there in the tranquil ...

True confession: The first bottle of Black Dog Ale I ever bought wasn’t for the taste or the price or even the reputation. What separated that six-pack from hundreds of others in the 40-foot-long beer ...

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY LABELS. THERE ARE THESE STEREOTYPICAL LABELS THRUST UPON HIGH SCHOOLERS, THE GOTH KIDS, THE JOCKS, THE THEATER KIDS. WE’RE SURROUNDED BY PHYSICAL LABELS TO WALK DOWN THE AISLES OF ...

What’s in a name? Controversy. The names and images emblazoned on some beer labels have disturbed everyone from consumers to regulators. The beer: Santa’s Little Helper, an imperial stout from Port ...

AKRON, Ohio — Charles Johnson isn’t exactly sure why he started collecting beer labels. He just knows that he’s never been able to stop. It was 1955 and Johnson, then a senior at the University of ...

We know not to judge a book by its cover, but these suave beer labels are making it hard for us not to do that. As more and more craft beers enter the market, and with quality improving leaps and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The biggest brewers in the U.S. said Tuesday they plan to add nutrition labels to beers like Heineken and Corona so that consumers know the amount of ...

I’ve become an obsessive label-reader. You know the type — you might be one, too. When grocery-shopping, I scour bread labels for the loaf with an extra gram of fiber. I read ingredient lists on ...