{"id":910,"date":"2013-05-04T21:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T02:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/?p=910"},"modified":"2013-05-04T21:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T02:11:17","slug":"air-line-brewing-a-logo-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2013\/05\/air-line-brewing-a-logo-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Line Brewing &#8211; A Logo &#038; Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I started thinking about coming up with a brewery name for home brewing. \u00a0Will turn this into a business at some point? \u00a0I don&#8217;t know, right now it is just a hobby, but why not come up with some ideas anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward a couple months and we have a name, a logo, and even bottles:<\/p>\n<h3>Weekly Photo &#8211; Air Line Brewing Bottles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Food\/Beer-and-Brewing\/28161418_MQ4w3f#!i=2493333193&amp;k=bmnw65t&amp;lb=1&amp;s=A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Food\/Beer-and-Brewing\/i-bmnw65t\/0\/XL\/Air-Line-Bottles-XL.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As anyone local will most likely guess, the Air Line Brewing name &amp; logo came from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Line_State_Park_Trail\" target=\"_blank\">Air Line Trail<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0The trail was originally the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_and_New_York_Air-Line_Railroad#Air_Line\" target=\"_blank\">New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0which passed through Connecticut in the late 1800&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The bottles are 32oz Boston Rounds, aka &#8220;Growlettes&#8221;, which I ordered through <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egrandstand.com\/32-oz-amber-boston-round-bottle-33-400.html\" target=\"_blank\">Grandstand<\/a><\/strong>. They are not the most common home-brewing bottle, but I did a test run with them on my last batch. \u00a0Being easy to clean, fill, and cap they worked out perfectly. \u00a0Grandstand has a minimum order of 48 (with or without printing), but if you want to try out blank ones on a smaller scale Uline carries them in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uline.com\/Product\/Detail\/S-15652\/Jars-Jugs-and-Bottles\/32-oz-Amber-Boston-Round-Glass-Bottles\" target=\"_blank\">cases of 12<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Splurge on good caps though! \u00a0The Uline bottles come with paper-lined caps, which are not going to hold pressure once carbonated. \u00a0Look for caps with a &#8220;Polycone&#8221; liner, which is flexible plastic cone inside the cap. \u00a0I&#8217;ve used those for both growlettes and growlers and they are excellent. \u00a0Your local home brewing supply shop may have them for growlers, and I bought the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egrandstand.com\/33-400-boston-round-black-phenolic-cap-pe-cone-lined.html\" target=\"_blank\">growlette caps<\/a><\/strong> from Grandstand.<\/p>\n<p>I have a blueberry wheat in the <a title=\"Amber Ale In The Conical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2013\/02\/amber-ale-in-the-conical\/\">fermenter<\/a> right now, which will be going into these bottles in about another week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2013\/05\/air-line-brewing-a-logo-bottles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Earlier this year I started thinking about coming up with a brewery name for home brewing. \u00a0Will turn this into a business at some point? \u00a0I don&#8217;t know, right now it is just a hobby, but why not come up with some ideas anyway? Fast-forward a couple months and we have a name, a logo, and even bottles: Weekly Photo &#8211; Air Line Brewing Bottles As anyone local will most likely guess, the Air Line Brewing name &amp; logo came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[47,27],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-brewing","tag-lensfa-501-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}