One of my least favorite parts of brewing is removing the labels from commercial beer bottles. Experienced home brewers like Mineral Springs Brewing understand the problem and win my top honors for being the most easy to remove (and most entertaining) bottle labels. Followed by Fat Tire Amber, my lucky beer (see Hole in One story), is easy to remove labels in one piece, with just some glue to easily remove. Rusty Red from O’so Brewing has just two glue lines, but are tough. Perhaps my favorite new beer (other than MSB Beer Wisperer Lager) of the year was the Staghorn Octoberfest from New Glarus Brewing Company, but the bottle labels are a real pain to remove.