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Sometimes it’s okay to judge a beer by its label. In fact, some breweries want you to do just that in today’s evolving craft beer landscape. With dozens of new regional companies competing for liquor shelf real estate, many are looking to professional graphic design as a way to stand out from the competition and…

Chicago's Pipeworks Brewing Company is known for creating wildly fantastical craft beers with labeling to match, as in the astronaut unicorn hurtling through space on its Imperial India Pale Ale bottle. The label for its latest offbeat brew — "Brown & Stirred" — goes in an entirely different direction. The beer, a collaboration with Longman…

We at Food Republic like to dole out advice on what to drink when it comes to wine. That’s all well and good, but we know how it is — when you’re out there on the front lines, standing before 100 bottles on the shelf at the wine shop, you’re going to buy what jumps…

You know what they say about not being able to please everyone at once? Well, this new Australian brand doesn't even try. In a fantastic example of the new breed of crowd-sourced project that offer a clear, refreshing aesthetic vision, the team behind Australia's Mr. Black coffee liqueur sought out to accomplish two things with…

There’s a tradition in Southern universities that goes something like this: Fraternity member invites sorority girl to luxe beach weekend getaway in the spring. It's called “Formal.” (Note: In this context, “luxe” implies Svedka instead of Taaka. Anything that comes in a glass bottle just oozes class). Sorority girl is giddy — only if the…