Beer Company with the least & most professional-looking labels?

-Dovetailing from the topic of the new Weyerbacher labels...(one of my fav beers, BTW)

I'm sure you've all noticed that some craft beers (especially the smaller 'start-up' companies), may have..err..less than stellar art or fonts, (some of which look like they may have constructed from Printworks for Windows 98. Of course, this just for labels only, which doesn't correlate w/ the quality of the beers of course.
Which are your favs? Most meh? Most cartoony?
Go wild w/ this topic!

I'll start:
Worst looking labels: Bar harbor brewing company.
Most professional: Ommegang
Best Pin-up art: Haverhill Brewery
Most embarassing beer to bring home to have your wife see: Middle Ages Brewing: 'Double Wench' (Google Image this)
Best Comic Book art: Stone Brewing

i like the names and labels of Flying dog brews

Most Professional: Firestone Walker
Worst Looking: Lost Coast
Makes Me Feel Good for the New Season: Sierra Nevada
Badass: Rogue

Weyerbacher labels are the worst

Most professional.. Firestone proprietors reserve series & westvleteran... Some of the DFH regulars are nice and basic, but it varies a lot through their lines and some aren't great

Most cartoony.. Flying dog

Least professional.. I'm sure there are worse, but weyerbacher's double simcoe has a terrible label

Professional: Maine Beer Co.

Worst: Red Hook

METAL: 3 floyds

Not sure about most/least professional, but I'll add that Cigar City's labels have gone from being very amateurish two years ago to being quite polished & attractive now.

I must agree. All the Belgian Style Ale labels they do, as well as the Bourbon County line, are just plain classy.

Stay classy, Goose Island.

Also, I especially liked Surly's labels when I was underage because they passed as energy drinks when dealing with certain clueless cops...

I'm not sure what they looked like before, but I picked up a homefront ipa a couple days ago and the label is really busy - I'm not a fan.

Most Professional: Firestone FTW
Most Cartoony: No doubt Coney Island(the person who said Flying Dog must not get "art")
Most Artistic: Odell sixers/four packs,Dogfish 750s, and the aforementioned Flying Dog
Most Pretentious: Goose Island(Belgian style ale...come on guys)
Most Ugly: Moylans, Marin, Green Flash, Dogfish sixers(why so bad guys?)
Most Longwinded: Lost Abbey(borrring) Stone(awesome)

Im shocked no one had shit on the dark horse labels yet.

Classy: Samuel Adams
Folksy: Smuttynose
Scary: Stone
Appropriate: Highland

Most awesome: Jolly Pumpkin
Fucking righteous: Jolly Pumpkin
Best use of a cat with a sword: Jolly Pumpkin

My favorite labels:
FFF
Dogfish
Cigar City
Surly

Plain Labels:
Brooklyn
Weyerbacher

Worst: Russian River

Worst is definitely Weyerbacher. Best looking labels IMO are NEBCO. I may be a homer, but 668 and Imperial Stout Trouper are awesome labels.

Love Flying Dog

Most Professional: Firestone Walker
Most "Classic": Sam Adams
Artsy/Hippy: Magic Hat
Favorite: Smuttynose
Least Favorite: Founders, Lagunitas
Best Cans: Ghandi Bot and Gansett

Call me oldskool, but my favorites are Anchor, Brooklyn, and Sierra..

I take it no one has ever seen a Kuehnehnn(sp?). I remember their Raspberry Eisbock looking like it was printed from a IIGS.

Most Professional: The Bruery, Firestone Walker
Least Favorite: FFF, Sand Creek

Most Cartoonie/Graphic Novelie:

Professional - Brooklyn, GI & FW.
Not so Much - Lost Coast & Wormtown.

If you don't pick Anchor for best labels, you forgot about Anchor.

Flying Dog must not get moderation. We all know who Ralph Steadman is, I can even appreciate his work but to plaster is on every bottle it becomes a bit overdone and played out. The labels do not do it for me.

Most Pro? Goose Island. Minimalism all the way.
Personal Fave? New Belgium Lips of Faith Series. Super fun and gorgeous
Least Pro? Weyerbacher

i have always liked the hair of the dog labels. very well done, eye catching, and memorable.

If anyone actually does do a search for this, expect some surprises of the NWS variety. Not complaining, just thought I'd mention it.

And yeah, Double Wench looks like someone took a screen cap from some porn and just traced over it. Didn't even realized I'd seen this in stores until I did the search. I have nothing against boobs (at the moment *ba-dum tish) but that thing looks really bad and doesn't exactly make me want to try it.

The thing is, moderation or not, the Flying Dog images are quite evocative without resorting to the the gimics of a Coney Island or Clown Shoes.(Not really a fan of "themes" for brewerys when it comes to naming their brews, but the art is still crazy good IMO)

Half Acre in Chicago has some of the most original label art in my opinion. Some really great artwork generally with a touch of humor. Many of you probably haven't had the opportunity to see some of the labels. Below are a few examples (the Big Hugs label this year still cracks me up).

I too am not a fan of the Flying Dog labels, and they're local to me- I live ten miles from their brewery in Frederick, MD. The designs, while show obvious talent, are just too over the top for me as are some of there beer names, which are juvenile and trying too hard. While I like to support, and I do, the local brewery, their collection of beers baffles me. Some go from very pedestrian and uninspired to downright yummy top-shelf offerings....very inconsistent.

Should have mentioned it..definitely Image Google ALL the words: Middle Ages Double Wench Beer..(Not just Double Wench)...makes it a wee bit less NSFW, (but the labels could still be risque depending on your workplace, and region of the country, and the artwork is stilll kinda...errr.. out there (no pun intended))

"Don't like her? What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge... tracts of land"-King of Swamp Castle

Agree with Wormtown...technically nothing wrong w/ the labels, but the Fonts are all over the place from beer to beer...feels...amateurish in a way.

Brooklyn Brewery..definitely professional looking..consistently...but also plain in other ways...(mentioned by another poster)

I think Hardywood Park is off to a great start with their labels. Nice look and feel to them.
In fact, I think all of their packaging and marketing material is excellent.

I really like Bruery's labels...GI and FW come close. But only some (read: sours) boost my pulse...

Dont like FFF labels, but their beers are phenomenal.

Most Tacky by Far: Big Beaver Brewing. If you havent seen it, look it up and check out all of their beer names and labels. Absolutley terrible

The new Ommegang Labels are fantastic, much better than the originals IMO.

The only thing I've had from them is Pliny so I can't say too much about their labels, but the use of the Comic Sans-ish font around the Pliny label made me cringe a bit. I think it might be because I spend too much time on teh intertubes.