Drink Label
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A Drink Label is a piece of paper, polymer, metal, or other material affixed to a container of a drink, usually bottle or can, on which an information about the drink is written or printed.
The Drink Labels have a few purposes including providing information on a drink's origin, producing company and brand, nutritional and alcoholic content, shelf-life and disposal, some or all of which may be governed by legislation. It will often feature the logo of the producing company and/or brand name. Methods of production and attachment to the container are many and various and may also be subject to internationally recognized standards.
Browsing the Catalog
The Colnect Drink Labels Catalog can be filtered from the Catalog drop-down menu by the following properties:
- Countries: The country where the drink is produced.
- Companies: The company, which produced the drink.
- Brands: The brand of the drink label.
- Beverages: The kind of the drink.
- Volumes: The quantity of the drink.
- Volume Units: The measurement unit of the drink.
- Years: The first year of produce, if known.
- Themes: The motif themes on the drink label. Multiple themes can be selected for one label. Only the themes from the Colnect Global Cross-Category Themes List can be used.
- Recently updated: Drink labels where at least one piece of information was changed in the last 30 calendar days. The last change applied is used to determine the change age of the label. This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 calendar days.
- Newly added: Drink labels added to the Colnect Drink Labels Catalog within the last 30 calendar days. This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 calendar days.
- Import Log: A list of all New Item Forms (NIFs) that have been imported since 2013. It shows date, the person who created the NIF, the coordinator who imported it, the number of drink labels imported, and the country of the drink labels. Please note that it is not possible to find the drink labels that were in the NIF, this information is not stored in the database.
The catalog also contains other properties to further describe the drink labels:
- Name (60 characters): The name of the drink label.
- Series: The series, if any, the drink label belongs to.
- Variant: If a drink label is marked as a variant, you can get a list of all variants of this drink label by clicking on Click to see variants.
- Catalog Name: The name of the catalog used for the catalog number. Currently only Colnect Codes (Colnect's own numbering system) is used.
- Catalog Code: The Colnect catalog code consists of 3 parts connected with hyphens: the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 country code, beverage type, and a consecutive 6-digit number. Example: DE-BEER-000087 (DE: ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 for Germany, Federal Republic BEER: Beer -: Hyphen 000087: Consecutive number).
- Location: The town or city of origin of the drink label. It must be in the country of the drink label.
- Width: The horizontal width of the drink label measured in millimeter.
- Height: The vertical height of the drink label measured in millimeter.
- Volume: The amount of drink, usually printed on the label, if not "Various" is used.
- Description: A detailed description of the drink label. This may include information on how to distinguish variants.
- Front Picture and Back Picture: The front of the drink label must be pictured, the back is only required when the back side or back label exists. Please follow the Picture Guidelines.