Ok, so I've had this site bookmarked in Chrome for a year, but I've never really monkeyed with it much. For what it's worth, I hadn't played with it enough to even realize there was a pay option/free design choice to make. The Beer Labelizer is just an incredibly cool website for creating appropriately sized labels for your homebrew! They have a number of free designs, and a boatload of "premium" members-only designs. Membership is only $5 through PayPal (not sure how long that membership is for...will update when I hear back from the owner.)
Anywhos, very easy to edit the most common sections of a beer label: Beer Name, Beer Type/Style, two separate "tag lines" with recommended fills of Brewery Name and Brewed By, but easily filled elsewise if that suits your needs better (such as "occassion/event name" for anniversary/wedding brews, etc.) There's also spots to fill in ABV and bottle size. Any and all lines can be left blank for a "cleaner" label, though none of the designs are "clean" enough for satisfactory black&white printing. You will likely want to have any labels created through the Beer Labelizer printed at a professional copy house, like Kinkos or your local equivalent. (Pony up for color laser printing, though plain paper is fine. Do the milk label thing to get them stuck to your bottles. Plus, your local copy house likely has a paper cutter of convenient size to cut the pages down for you...)
If the membership thing seems worthwhile, you can even add .jpg images to your labels. Freakin' uptown and guaranteed to impress the neighbors and in-laws! :-) (Can you say "engagement photos for those wedding brews? Wedding photos for those anniversary party brews? Name the occasion, I'm sure you have a picture for it! A picture is worth a thousand words, but a good brew can make you forget half the words you've read.
Once printed and cut to size, just pour a little skim milk on a plate, dip each label to moisten and slap those puppies on! They'll hold through refrigerator condensation, but will still rinse right off with some hot water once you've shared your great-tasting and great-looking homebrew!
All in all, very cool stuff to make your homebrew look as good as it tastes! :-)
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