sapporo beer expiration date code

Hair of the Dog:Uses either the year as avintageor abatch codethat you can find out the brewed & bottled date on their website altough they haven't updated it in a few years. 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. From the brewer: On our 12 ounce bottles we have a Best if used before date. If you have drunk liquor for more than a year, the taste will typically be duller. Only on the regular brews. Format is MM/DD/YYYY.Susquehanna:Uses abest beforedate with a 120 to 150 day window.Swamp Head:Uses abottled ondate. Date is 120 days from canning. Our 22 ounce bottles will continue to have a vintage bottling date on the bottom left side of the label that is notched. Shelf life of some beers: Hop Devil 5 months Prima Pils 5 months, Victory Lager 5 months, Hop Wallop 1 year (this beer is bottle conditioned), Headwaters Pale Ale 5 months, Summer Love 5 months, Golden Monkey 3 years, Storm King 5 years, Old Horizontal 5 years. The letters and numbers after that indicate a brewery and packaging line.Grey Sail:Uses acanningdate. Arcadia:Uses abottled ondate. Beer may be refrigerated for up to two years after it has passed its expiry date. Real Ale (TX):Uses abest consumed bydate. Sierra Nevada:Uses apackagingdate. The first six numbers of the second row are mm/dd/yy. O'Fallon:Uses aborn ondate. Example: 0839 would mean it was bottled on the 83rd day of 2009 (Mar. There should be small notches in the paper below the corresponding month and week when the beer was bottled. There is a bottled on date on the right side of the label. Atlas Brew Works: Beers will be available in the summer of 2013. Keegan Ales:Uses abottled ondate on the case box. Ninkasi:Uses abottlingdate. It's right next to the government warning. The first three numbers are the day of the year that the beer will be out of date. It's a Julian date stamped on the neck of the bottle. Format is MM/DD/YY. Want more consumer news? Each brewery specifies when its beers should be pulled from the shelves. Most brewers don't really want consumers to know when their beer was made. date. Printed around the neck or shoulder of the bottle. Upright:Uses apackagingdate. Ale Industries:No standard freshness info but they change the artwork for their labels seasonally giving the beers a 3 month window. The longer expiration date was made possible by improving ingredients and production methods. It's usually on the bottom right of the label. Eagle Rock:Uses abottlingdate on the cases and very soon the bottles.East End:From the brewer: 100% of our bottled beers are getting either abrewed onorpackaged ondate, with the exception of our Gratitude Barleywine which is color coded by year and all our kegs get tagged with a packaging date on the keg cap. Also stamped on the cases. Recently I got some Bass Ale, and haven't thrown the empty bottle out yet. San Luis:Uses abottlingdate. In Phoenix, though, we picked up a Dos Equis barely two weeks from the brewery. Recommended shelf life is 60-90 days. Arbor:Uses abottlingdate. Dos Equis uses a coded bottling date of day, month, year. The first digit is the last number of the year. From the brewer: We've done it a couple ways. Format is MM/DD/YY. It seems this function is disabled on their site.Justice:They are in the middle of a label change. From the brewer: We stamp the bottle (on the barcode) with our bottle date. Full Pint:Uses abest bydate. Ignore the L; just the first four numerals matter. It's on the bottom of the can. It's on the cases only. Join 8,027 readers in helping fund MetaFilter. It also says "06:45" above the date but that can't be the time; that would be taking it too far. Also, how can you decipher a Guinness date code? The first three digits represent the day of the year, last digit is the last number of the year. Rule of thumb is 3 or 4 months after bottling and the beer should be fine. El Toro:Uses abottlingdate on the top of the case. Sapporo Breweries will extend the best-before period for its beer and quasi-beer products from the existing nine months to 12 months. Tuppers' Hop Pocket:Uses abottlingdate on the cases only. Month/Day/Year'. Format is MM/DD/YY.Lavery:Uses abottled onandbest bydate. Shelf-life is 120 days. Tied House:Uses abottled/packed ondate on the bottles and cases.Tommyknocker:Uses abottled ondate. Format is MM/DD/YY.Upland:Uses abottlingdate. Blue & Gray:Uses abottled ondate on the bottles.Blue Mountain (VA):Uses abest bydate. Ex. Shelf-life is 3 months. cColumbus:Uses abottlingdate. Gritty McDuff's:Uses aBest if used beforedate. It's in a MM/DD/YY format on all bottles between the neck and the shoulder of the bottle. date. Its the same thing you see when you slice open an apple and its exposed to the air, says William Quilliam, the brewmaster at Coors Brewing, which marks its bottles with a clear expiration date, generally 112 days from the manufacture date. Some are the month day year. The Anchor Steam brewer, which uses cryptic three-character codes like 5NV, says consumers can look for the key on the Web. I'm sure the "expiration date" is carefully calculated to be well inside the time it takes to sell the beer. Before craft beer aficionado Matthew Starr buys a new IPA or Pilsener at his favorite beer store, he picks up the can to check for a date. Format is MM/DD/YY.Dogfish Head:Shows thebottlingon the neck of the bottle. Only marked on the master cartons.Two Brothers:Uses abest beforedate. 155 = day of the year & 9 = the year itself.