As competition grows, many breweries are breaking through the clutter with creative beer labels featuring funny names and ...

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 ...

Breweries are some of the oldest companies in the world, and beer labels are full of little symbols and phrases that point to their storied histories. That, or they just load up the bottles and cans ...

In the end there was no denying Betsy the purple cow. After two weeks and thousands of votes, Newburgh Brewing Co.'s Cream Ale beer label was crowned the 2015 winner of CNBC's Most Loved Label ...

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 ...

In the end, voters in CNBC's Battle of the Beer Labels were crazy for Koko Buni. Clinching the win in a nail-biting final round, the label from Creature Comforts Brewing edged out Black Hog Brewing's ...

For years, one man has approved virtually every beer label design in the United States. Among brewers, he’s a tyrant. A legend. A pedantic pain in the ass. Brewers and legal experts speak of him in ...

Video editor Trevor Carmick is receiving all sorts of attention for his new side project called Beer Labels in Motion, a collection of beer labels cleverly animated in GIF format. Carmick was inspired ...

Andrew Parks is a Minneapolis-based writer and editor who covers topics ranging from food, drink, dining, and travel to arts and culture. "Highland was ready for a big change," explains the creative ...

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 ...