Format is MM/DD/YY followed by the batch number. From the brewer: We date code the case boxes with the month and week of bottling and the batch number.Lakewood:Uses abottlingdate on their beers. They have akegged ondate on their kegs which is pulled under 90 days. Galena:Will use apackagingdate. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. t turns out there's some pretty old beer out there. Clown Shoes:Uses abottlingdate. From the brewer: Higher gravity special stuff usually something like "Spring 2009" or something. Yazoo:Bottlingdate on the label.Yellowstone Valley:Uses abottlingdate. Format is DD/MM/YY. In 1996, the giant brewer began putting plain-English born on dates on bottles and cans of Budweiser. Format is MM/DD/YY. A widget is a hollow, spherical piece of plastic with a small hole that resembles a ping pong ball. Half Acre:Uses apackagingdate on theircases. I wouldnt encourage that as a practice, but if its skunked, you could probably return it anyhow. ), But one store we visited carried Sam Adams bottles beyond the expiration date. Bitter Root:Uses apackagingdate. From the brewer: We currently don't do a date on the bottle, but we do a date on the outside of the case. Brewer's Art:Uses abest bydate. A beer typically lasts six to nine months after it has been labeled as expired. We use Julian dates. Manzanita:Uses abottlingdate on the case only. Christian Moerlein:Uses abottlingdate. Summit:Uses an''Enjoy by''date. From the brewer: There is an ink jetted date on each bottle just above the top of the label. Best before date is on the 10z. Translates into June 11th, 2005. A few of their high ABV beers have abottlingdate that is clearly marked. They plan on bottling soon and will probably carry over the dating. From the brewer: It is date stamped for 90 days after bottling on both cases and bottles. Red Rock:Uses abottlingdate on their beers.Reuben's Brews:Uses aborn onorbottlingdate. Stamped on cases only. From the brewer: If you can check the code stamped on the case, it is the Julian date and the last digit is the year ["0" for 2010]. Santa Cruz Mountain:Uses abottlingdate. The 10 denotes the year of production, and the three numbers after mean that the beer was brewed on the 84thday of the year, or today, March 25th. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. date. Kegs also have the same shelf life and are labelled as such.SanTan:Uses acanningdate. Omission:Uses abottlingdate. If you have trouble printing the larger version of the chart, let me know. Laser etched on the bottle. Short's:Uses acrafted ondate. Also cases are stamped with the date before they are palletized. Big Boss:Uses abottled ondate. 09 is the year, 187 is the 187th day of the year and 9930 is a batch code. It's a sticker on each six-pack. Currently, its non-alcoholic beers already have an expiration period of 12 months. Some of the batch info is on the website but you can always email the brewer for specifics. It's a different version of the Julian date code. The first five numbersprinted are the Julian date. From the brewer: On the bottom of each 6 pack there is an expiration date. Five numbers should appear on the top line. date. Bottles: Only the cases are stamped, on the top. The suspect suds reared their not-so-foamy heads at a wide variety of stores. The first 3 numbers are the day of the year, and the last digit is the last number of the year. Great Divide:Uses abottlingdate. It turns out theres some pretty old beer out there. Atlantic Brewing (Maine):Best beforedate stamped on top of end panel of each case. Wild River (OR):Uses abest beforedate. Alaskan:Uses abest beforecode. Ex. Each case is stamped with a "beers are good for at least one year from date stamped" stamp on each case. Bottlings for these are released within a week of each other. date. Excerpted from evansale.com/skunked_beer.html. Bell's:Uses abottlingdate. Corona uses a four-character bottling code. From the brewer: The date is clearly presented on the front of the bottle for every batch. It is a Julian date that will read, for example, 9121. that is the 121st day of 2009 or May 1. For more info, gohere. "We believe in competing on the basis of the taste of our beer, not its age," says Fritz Maytag, owner of Anchor Brewing in San Francisco. Sierra Nevada, on the other hand, recommends drinking it within 90 days of bottling. For example, if the first 4 numbers on the bottom of the can are 1481, this means the beer was born on the 148th day of 2011. From the brewer: We try to get it video-jetted on the neck label of each bottle, but some of them get by us on packaging day. Will have abottled ondate on very low production bottles. Gordon Biersch:Clearly shows thebottlingdate.Grand Canyon:Uses abombed on(bottling)date on their bombers.Grand Teton:Uses abottlingdate. For instance, 005910 0617 would be Feb 28, 2010 produced at 6:17am. date. function sanitize_gpt_value2(gptValue) It's on the carton only. Some makers, like Asahi, say their beer tastes just fine for up to a year. Example: 15009 would be the 150th day of 2009. Well, the code indicates the beer was made Oct. 12, 2005. There are now more bottles of beer on the store wall than ever more than 2,000 domestic brands alone making it harder for both stores and consumers to steer clear of the stale stuff. One is a date in the lower left side: 0909 1009 1109 1209 (month/year). Recommended shelf life 120 days from that date. It's a Julian code. The new labels have no freshness info. The letters and numbers after that indicate a brewery and packaging line. MetaFilter is a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. Currently we remove a line from the hash marks on the left side of the bottle. Highland:Uses abottled ondate. It is good for 6 months after the bottling date. Example: 0839 would mean it was bottled on the 83rd day of 2009 (Mar. Spreading confusion over the Internet's pipes since 1994. date. A production code is imprinted on the majority of beers sold in North America. How To Read An Expiration Date Code | MAGODA Printed around the neck or shoulder of the bottle. Format is MM/DD/YY. There is no expiration date but our beers are not pasteurized and have a shelf life of about six months, longer if refrigerated. Miller codes contain two lines. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". }); The changes will be applied to 21 of its products made in or after March 2020. Steel Toe:Uses abottlingdate on their boxes. There are plenty of other threads for good-natured banter between us German bier fans . Consider this your official guide to when foods actually expire. The label reads BEST BEFORE: J F M A M J J A S O N D 12 13 14 so there would be 1 notch under a month and another under a year.Bellevue:Uses abottlingdate. There is a 9 digit number on the lower-right part of the label, or the bottom of the can: the format is YYMMDDXXX, where the packaging date is MM/DD/YY. 1. "I will look for a date code 100 percent of the time . The first six numbers of the second row are mm/dd/yy. Take Sapporo, a Japanese beer we purchased in Los Angeles, which was imprinted with K1205FL on the bottom. Fish Brewing (WA):Uses aspawned on (bottling)date. The delicious Widmer Brothers Hefeweizen that I'm currently enjoying was bottled on "DEC2705". It's a Julian date code. From the brewer: On the 12 pack I have a date it was packed and a best by date. Format is MMDDYY. Format is a random letter or two followed by the date of the month, the month spelled out and the year. Atwater Block:Uses aproductiondate. The packaging date is on the bottom of each can and on the side of each six pack. var reg = new RegExp('\\W+', "g"); Example 09001 would be Jan. 1, 2009. Some of the batch info is on the website but you can always email the brewer for specifics. Captured By Porches:Uses abottlingdate. Santa Cruz Aleworks:Uses abottlingdate. hodyoaten, from my occasional homebrew experiences and semi-frequent buying-beer-at-the-store experiences, I think there's multiple factors involved in beer spoilage. Russian River:For the Blind Pig & Pliny the Elder, there is abottled ondate. Our beer is dated at six months. From the brewer:Every bottle has a label notch on the left hand side showing month and year of bottling. But if youre looking for the expiration date on a bottle of beer, forget about it for many brewers, that information is a closely guarded secret. Of course, this is just the brewery's guarantee. Pelican:Uses abottlingdate. So, drinking outdated beer isnt unsafe in any way. Beer usually lasts six to nine months after the expiry date on the label has passed. Month and year are notched on the left side of the front label. Hopworks Urban Brewery:Uses abottlingdate. Month and year are notched on the bottom of the front label. Beer, unlike food, does not deteriorate. If you look on the side (usually right) it will have a little notch for what month it was bottled in. RedHook:Clearly shows thebottlingdate. Eel River:Uses apackaged ondate. Format is MM/DD/YYYY. The first three numbers are the day of the year the beer was bottled. It's posted on the cases boxes. Avery:Uses abottlingdate. Belfast Bay:Uses abest beforedate. From the brewer: If bought by the case, the dates are only ON the case. Months are coded as following: J = Jan, F = Feb, M = Mar, A = Apr, Y = May, U = Jun, L = Jul, G = Aug, S = Sep, O = Oct, N = Nov, D = Dec.The days 1-26 are coded A-Z while days 27-31 are coded with the last digit of the day. Ex: 20DEC12. Format is MM/DD/YYYY. Goose Island:Clearly shows thebottlingdate. Format would read:Mar 22 2010. In our example, the product should have been pulled from the shelves on Sunday, November 14, 2004.Corner:See Arbor. Also, certain beers like the Old Stock uses the MM/DD/YYYY format. We're updating the IPA, DOA, Stout and Pale to read like the Secession. The Department of Transportation (DOT) code is a special number given to tires and provides information that includes how old the tire is and where it was manufactured. Real Ale (TX):Uses abest consumed bydate. The year it was made is indicated by the first two numbers. Crabtree:Uses abottlingdate. Unless otherwise noted, domestic beers have a shelf life of approximately four months, but imported brews last a year after bottling. Format is MM/DD/YYYY. On the 12oz., month and year are notched on the side of the label.Brew Works:See Fegley's Brew Works. It's stamped on the case carton only. Shipyard:Uses abest enjoyed beforedate. To the left side would be the 1stof the month, towards the middle of the label would be around the 15thand to the right of the label would be the 30thof the month. Format is MM/DD/YY.Pike Brewing:Uses abottlingdate. Even though beer is not dangerous to drink, the taste will deteriorate over time. Reads BOTTLED ON mm/dd/yyyy. Deschutes:Shows thebest beforedateas month (but not year). Most of our seasonals do not have this due to their limited availability. (As if the system weren't complicated enough, this one, like many of these codes, has an extra twist: The month code skips over the letter "I" and uses "J" for September.) date. Oddly enough, Irish brews have clearly marked expiration dates and our local off-license sells a variety of off-peak beers in foul-smelling wicker baskets for discount prices. Oaken Barrel:Uses abottlingdate. beers we mark month and year they were bottled. Most brewers don't really want consumers to know when their beer was made. It's on the neck of the bottle in black ink. Responding to queries from FoodNavigator-Asia, the firm said the move was to reduce food waste throughout the supply chain. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Translates to: Thomas Creek Red Feb. 17, 2010. Golden Road:Uses acanned ondate.GoodLife:Uses abottlingdate. For example, if the code on a bottle or can of a Coors product reads "NOV14 111B" or "NOV1411132B", then November 14 is the day the product should be removed from a retailer's shelves. From the brewer: It is vertically etched on the left side of the back label, and is in a MMDDYY format (063013 would thus mean June 30, 2013). From the brewer: We intend to print the date on which the beer was bottled directly onto the neck of the bottle. Our beer is best within 3 months of the bottling date. Stouts aren't even good unless they've been aged for a year or so, and they're great even after 3 years. The cans have the same system printed on their bottoms. Also, the "regular strength" Brooklyn 12 oz. It's a sticker on each 4-pack. Example: 06/04/13. : JUN 19 2010. From the brewer: Our bottled beer has a date stamped on the case boxes giving the born date. google_color_bg="EBE0C8"; Black Butte & Obsidian is 200 days. Beer So if a label has three notches in the bottom left hand corner then it is the third bottling in Sept. for that style of beer. New Belgium:Clearly shows thebest beforedate. Ex. Sol Code Dates are reflected as Best Before Date: BBD MMMYYY. date. Paper City:Uses abest beforedate. date. Word cloud Tshirt was the previous entry in this blog. Weeping Radish:Uses abottled ondate. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. Shelf-life is 120 days. The packaging date is on the bottom of each can and on the side of each six pack. To the left of the label's main design. cans and bottles, bottled on date is on the 750ml. The code is printed below the label on the glass. date. It's a Julian date code stamped (usually) on the back label. Making a 5 percent low-hopped beer is far less expensive than making a 7 percent hoppy IPA, which needs a particular yeast strain and 10X the quantity of hops.