Bottled date should be mandatory

Hold on officer, its right here in my glovebox

 

I don't think its an outrageous question. I've never heard of it being illegal, so I thought id ask to see where you can prove it.

 

Care to provide any sort of information to back up the statement? What is going to develop in the beer which will cause you to get sick?

It certainly would not be any sort of bacterial sickness, beer cannot support the type of bacteria that will get you sick.

 

Yea there is a bit of a flaw in the logic there. If it were illegal to sell beer past its best before date, then every beer would have a best before date. Right now you have some beers with nothing, some with a best before and some with a bottled on date. Plus who would decide what the date was? Would food inspectors and regulators know the difference between an IPA and say an imperial stout?

 

Enjoyability is an opinion not a fact (plenty of people "enjoy" crappy beer). And name an example of an old beer making someone sick. Overindulgence will make you sick, properly packaged old beer will not.

No need for government regulation here - thats a waste of my and everyone elses tax dollars. The onus is on the brewery to date their products if it means better sales for them and on the distributor to make sure the shelves are stocked correctly.

Let the individual breweries "protect" themselves here, there is no harm to the public.

 

When we generally talk about food spoilage it's due to the onset of bacterial or fungal activity, whether it be milk souring and curdling, vegetables rotting, or bread growing mold. Non-dried, non-perishables such as canned goods have been processed in such a way that it's near impossible for microbial activity to occur, and that's why they're so stable. Every professional brewer out there operates on the exact same premise.

Of course, some foods can go bad without being dangerous in any way. Stale bread or freezer-burnt meat might not be as pleasant to eat, but it won't make you sick. Beer is the same.

If you drank old beer then got sick, I'd suspect something caused it.

 

Exactly, the only way you can really get sick is from drinking too many beers. Which is why I am surprised that %ABV is not a label requirement in the US.

 

if old beer got you sick, why would we age a lot of it?

 

There actually is an inudstry definition of what constitutes a craft brewery, and Boston Beer Co. fits it. Capitalizing the word "craft" doesn't change that fact.

 

I agree! They should date all cans as well!

 

So it should be mandatory to date your bottles so that the consumer can see if the beer is expired because expired beer is gross?

What about the wide array of beer that's gross to begin with? By this line of thinking, it should be illegal to brew gross beer.

 

I give my hard earned money to the breweries (by purchasing beer) with a best by date or a born on date. I'm not paying all this money on a case for it to be stale or for the freshness to be in question. No regulations need to be made, no rules, especially no gov't involvement, nothing. The market and the beer community will "vote" with their dollars from purchasing fresh beer. Once this becomes a trend, other breweries will follow.

 

I'm the first to admit, I don't give a shit about dates. I never check them.

Just take a breath, relax, close your eyes and repeat after me:

"It's just beer"

 

If breweries just used the finest water and the finest quality malts this wouldn't be an issue. However these fascist American breweries are using an overabundance of ingredients to further dilute the purity of their beers. The reinheitsgebot knew what was up. /hamburgered

 

You clearly missed this thread. I was being sarcastic sir.

 

//would you like fries with that?

 

This is already being done. Perhaps the fancy script made it tougher to decipher:

 

Beechwood in my beer? No thank you!

 

Yeah, "It's just beer..." that's costing me $30-50 a case - so I want to know I'm buying it when it's at its best.

 

Phew, because Im almost done with page 2 and I was about to respond that I still don't see it.

next time, use the sarcasm font.