The Alaskan Amber journal was actually the first beer six-pack book I made. I loved the ship graphic (an ice cutter, I assume) and the bright red background. I cut the largest part of the six-pack, the front and back panels, trimmed them and then backed them with some gold metallic textured cardstock with a nice weight. That makes the cardboard stiff enough to bind well.
The Budweisser six-pack is a lot more familiar to most people. Bud is one of our best sellers (and this one is a slight cheat since it's from a 12-pack, not a six). I lined the trimmed cardboard with more of the heavy metallic-finish card stock, in silver.
The pages for both books are a camel-colored text weight paper folded into signatures. I bound the Alaskan Amber book with red waxed cotton thread. For the Bud journal, I used doubled thread, one strand of red and one of black.
Nifty little journals. And two more down.
Oohhh, love the Alaskan, Bud's ok, but is just a bud, now more of the specialty beers. I have a nephew who is always talking about tasting this or that beer like its wine. His most recent was a chocolate beer. This is a good series to start, as well as the movies covers love the old sci-fi with popcorn. Perhaps a popcorn box book...lol...
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