Ovila Abbey Saison bottling date... any help?

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  1. ONovoMexicano

    ONovoMexicano Initiate (0) Jun 14, 2012 New Mexico

    I'm pretty sure I've been sitting on this bottle for two years, but I wanted to confirm, so I searched the bottle up and down looking for a date. All I can find is the following:

    3108614:57

    This has me thinking maybe I confused this bottle, as 310 could be March 10th, which would follow SN's release schedule, and the 14 might imply a 2014 release. But then what the heck is the 86 there and the :57.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Sierra does a great job with their bottle dating, I'm not sure what they did or why as far as this Ovila bottle.
     
    #1 ONovoMexicano, Sep 20, 2014
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  2. tr9871

    tr9871 Crusader (407) Apr 14, 2013 Florida

    Someone else needs to confirm but as far as I know the 3 is 2013, on the 108th day, bottling line 6(?) Filled at 14:57.
     
    #2 tr9871, Sep 20, 2014
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  3. ONovoMexicano

    ONovoMexicano Initiate (0) Jun 14, 2012 New Mexico

    Ah, it never even occurred to me that the three could be 13. Everything you said makes a lot of sense. Thank you, sir.
     
    #3 ONovoMexicano, Sep 20, 2014
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  4. TonyLema1

    TonyLema1 Pooh-Bah (2,890) Nov 19, 2008 South Carolina
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    I've seen a few breweries use Julian Dates...wonder why
     
    #4 TonyLema1, Sep 22, 2014
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    MostlyNorwegian Pooh-Bah (2,236) Feb 5, 2013 Illinois
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    Why? It's probably what the date stamper is set up for when operating in default mode. It takes a minute to reset the message. But, these things take time because the screen is small, and the directions are pretty obtuse and when you are dong a bunch of other things while getting set up to run for the day, it's just a convenient and easy thing to go and leave it run the default Julian dated message.
     
    #5 MostlyNorwegian, Sep 22, 2014
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