One Delicious Art Project

Osama Bin Lager

A couple months ago I spent an invigorating few weeks in Australia.  The first stop on the trip led me to Sydney to visit good friends of mine – a Husband and Wife team that had moved home after a bustling stint in New York.

Stouthouse Ale

Always big fans of beer, drinking beer, buying beer, anything beer oriented, I wasn’t that surprised to find out that my friends had started brewing their own.  What blew me away, however, was the fact that they had turned each fermentation into a family art project affair.

First, Connie, the Artist/Former Director of Verbal Identity, works to come up with the Beer’s Identity.  Julian and his brother Jon then brew the beer followed by a meeting to conceptualize a label.  Lastly, Jon (a Product Designer) uses Stencil CAD Software and a Laser Cutting Machine to manufacture a Stencil (inclusive of logo and brew date) to be sprayed on each Brew in white enamel.

Now that’s one ‘Morning After Pils’ I’d gladly take…