Recent Commissions

14x36in

14x18in

We're coming back very soon with several new pieces. In the meantime, guess what is in our glass. Happy holidays!

Oil on canvas
Commission

This commission is a bit of a call-back to the first beer painting we did and it is just as chock-full of great beers, with many different styles being represented.

Oil on canvas
Commission

This commissioned beer painting was particularly interesting to do, as each beer was specifically chosen to represent something special to the owners of the painting (beyond their love of the beers). It was great to finally get a Ten Fidy in the sea of bottle paintings, especially with two of best imperial stouts on the market.

Hello!
We are still hard at work on paintings that pay tribute to craft beer, but right now our workload is solely comprised of commissions. We will post new paintings as they are finished, but it may be a little while before we get to any non-commissioned work. If you would like to commission something or make any suggestions - please email us! If you want something by Christmas, let us know and there may be enough time to make it happen!

In the meantime, here are some behind-the-scenes photos and - for those of you who are wondering who it is behind these paintings - a local article about us.

KBS commission

Oil on canvas
25x28in
Commission

Russian River crowns and hops

Oil on canvas
14x36in
SOLD!

Unibroue cork and cage

Oil on canvas
11.5x18.75in
SOLD

Bell's Expedition Stout

25x22in
Oil on canvas
Commission

This painting of Bell's Expedition Stout came out looking really architectural. It was a lot of fun to paint and it may very well be our favorite painting to date.

Rochefort 8 crown

Oil on canvas
14x18in

Trappist Rochefort 8, an incredible beer we find superior to Westvleteren 8, St. Bernardus Prior 8, and Rochefort 10, which are all really great beers in their own right.





Up next: some commissions, a unique Unibroue still-life, and maybe something a bit interesting with a Russian River crown.

Gulden Draak crown

14x18in

Oil on canvas

One of my all-time favorite beers - Brouwerij Van Steenberge's Gulden Draak. This beer comes in a unique bottle coated pure white. The Gulden Draak crown is an equally iconic black and gold, featuring the namesake of the beer, which is based on the golden dragon at the top of the belfry in the Belgian city of Ghent.



Up next: a Rochefort 8 crown.

Thomas Hardy on Art

Art is the secret of how to produce by a false thing the effect of a true.

- Thomas Hardy, 1891

Westvleteren 8 & 12 crowns

14x36x1.5in
Oil on canvas
SOLD

This painting celebrates Trappist Westvlereten 8 and 12 from the St. Sixtus abbey in Westvleteren in the West Flanders region of Belgium. This bold, atmospheric oil painting is 3-feet-wide - a substantial centerpiece for any basement bar, mancave, or beer cellar.

Have a Westvleteren collection in your cellar? It's a shame that without this painting, photographs of your collection will only yield murky fields of plain brown bottles. Oh you say you have your bottles in the Westvleteren-branded crates? Well, Mr. (or Ms.) Fancypants, do you really think that this painting won't look awesome above your crates?

The Beers of Three Floyds Brewery

28x21x1.75in
Commission

With some of the most wildly graphical labels in the industry, it is quite the adventure to paint Three Floyds bottles. With this painting, we worked with a bit of optical blurring as the bottles recede into the background.

Painting in context

This photo illustrates how much larger-than-life some of our paintings are - of course the crown paintings are even more proportionally larger. Many people (myself included) keep empty bottles of their favorite beers on display, but as empty bottles take up a lot of space and are essentially vessels for dust, these paintings may be a welcome alternative for some.

Coming soon: A composition of four Westvleteren crowns and a Gulden Draak crown.

Pliny the Elder

Commission

Lagunitas & Sierra Nevada

Commission
16x21x1.5

Commission

While we were already huge fans of Pliny and Palo Santo prior to doing this painting, we had not tried a Hop Rod Rye yet. We have since changed that - what a great beer.

Brookston Beer Bulletin

The great, prolific beer site Brookston Beer Bulletin did a feature on our art this week. Check it out for some insight into our process and stick around for a really wonderful site with up-to-date beer news, beer art, and great articles.

Three Floyds Brewery Oil Painting

16x20x1.5in
SOLD

The bold brewery based in Munster, Indiana. While widely-known for their giant Russian Imperial Stout, Dark Lord, Three Floyds makes many wonderful, unique beers.

We recently had their Blackheart English IPA and we absolutely loved it.

The first beer painting

This is the first beer painting we did - for our friends at The Brew Shop here in Bend, Oregon. We have a few more commissioned paintings like this coming down the pipeline and we'd always love to do more.

Hitachino Nest Oil Painting

14x18in
Commission

Japan's Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest. Love their Espresso Stout.

Kulmbacher Brauerei EKU Oil Painting

16x20in
Commission


Solid German brewery - we really like their EKU 28 doppelbock and its sherry-like characteristics.

Deschutes Brewery Oil Painting

14x18
Commission


As we live in Bend, Oregon, Deschutes Brewery is our drinking standard. We absolutely love their beers, from the regulars like Obsidian Stout and Black Butte Porter to the big barrel-aged Reserve Series.

St. Bernardus Abt. 12 Oil Painting

14x18in
SOLD

There may be superior Belgian quadruples out there, but this is the one we keep coming back to.

Trappist Rochefort 10 Oil Painting

14x18in
SOLD

North Coast Old Rasputin Oil Painting

22x11.75in
SOLD

North Coast's Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. A world-class stout branded with one of our favorite people in history.

Oskar Blues Ten Fidy Oil Painting

18.75x11.5in
SOLD

Who says beer in a can can't be classy? This is an oil painting of Ten Fidy, the excellent imperial stout made by Oskar Blues Brewery in Colorado.

Trappist Orval Oil Painting

16x20in
SOLD

The classic, incredibly unique Orval ale, a Belgian Trappist with brettanomyces yeast.

Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Oil Painting

24x12in
NFS

One of our favorite beers, Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout. A wonderful bourbon barrel-aged stout, perhaps the best.

Three Floyds Dark Lord Imperial Stout Oil Painting

24x12in
SOLD

The great, limited release imperial stout by Three Floyds Brewery in Munster, Indiana. The oil painting is of the 2010 release with the dark green wax.

Trappist Westvleteren 12 Oil Painting

16x20in
SOLD

Trappist Westvleteren 12, the prestigious Belgian quadruple with no label. This is the beer that originally inspired us to start painting caps, as it was a necessity in this case. Luckily, it is a beautifully intricate cap.

Introduction to Our Beer Art

Of the beer paintings we've done in the last few years, these are some of our favorites. It has been a lot of fun paying tribute to many of the great beers of the world, from the utter insanity that is painting the bottles of Three Floyds, to the simple, elegant compositions like the Bell's Expedition Stout and the Rochefort 10, as well as more ambitious endeavors, such as doing a painted representation of the seven Trappist breweries and these cap-filled compositions of the great breweries of Belgium and California. We feel these paintings are a really special way for a beer fan to decorate their living room, home bar, beer cellar or mancave. Even more so for a pub or brewery owner, we feel our paintings make for an incredibly unique addition to a business. Beer may be a humble drink for the common man, but quality craft beer is inescapably artful and it only follows that art inspired by the beer should at least attempt to parallel the beer.

In the course of doing these paintings, we've tried to include brewing ingredients (chiefly hops), but the components that go into making beer are not inherently visual, at least not in the way that a beer crown, bottle, or branded glass are. As the majority of our works communicate, our favorite objects to paint are beer caps. The beer cap is such an immediately identifiable and essential object and the really great ones communicate so much about the beer and where it is made. Part of the fun in painting them comes from the massive scale shift between the actual object and the painted version.

From 2012 on, we won't be able to produce the volume of beer art that we did in 2010-2011, but we'll still do commissions and maybe the occasional non-commissioned piece. The cap-filled compositions below are great for commissions, as we can paint the caps of your favorite beers/breweries. We have be resistant to doing prints in the past, but it is something we are considering in the future, as the prices of our paintings will have to go up for any kind of sustainability. Should we do prints, they will only be from a few select original pieces.

Thank you for looking at our paintings, if you have any questions, comments, or ideas for a commission, feel free to email us at the link on the left sidebar. Cheers! Cara & Louie