Just picked up a bottle of Funky E Star for the weekend. Had one last year and loved it, so I thought I'd start myself a little tradition. Never paid any attention to dates until recently and this one reads "8071103". Can someone decode this for me??
Not sure, but I almost bought a Mikkeller 10 and it is listed on this site as a retired beer......huh????? How in the hell is this on a shelf for that long???? OOOOOHHHHH, it's Mikkeller, the one brewer that nobody seems to understand why anyone pays the $ tag that comes along with it. Not trying to be negative, but I almost wanted to buy it to see how this is even possible.
People are still rating it well enough. I haven't seen it in a while but Texas distribution sucks. I won't buy hoppy Mikkeller beer bottles. On tap at the bar in Copenhagen is a different animal all together.
We sell a decent amount of Mikkeller stuff at my shop and I'm quite familiar with most of them. Funk E Star is a beer that can definitely age, so I wouldn't worry too much about that weird code that is on your bottle (we dont have the same code, we have best buy dates that are typically printed on the bottle cap.) If I remember correctly, he's giving that beer more or less 10 years. So, a bottle at my shop would read something like 1204202 (remember in Europe, the order is day,month,year). But with your bottles, I dont know what the hell is going on. In general though, Mikkeller gives his "hoppy beers" 2 years. So, Hoppy Easter would be bottle around now and have a date of something like 03302014. Granted, I understand why they give their beers that long of a shelf life, with a lot of it being exported, but for straight up hoppy beers (no wild yeast, or barrel-aging) then I agree it's bullshit. No one wants to drink a 2 year old IPA. However, many breweries in the states still dont date their bottles, so you wouldn't even know. In Europe, it's a law that you must have some form of date on all products, unfortunately most breweries choose a best by date and not a bottled on date...
Funky E Star should have aged well, I have about 80-90 Bret beers aging, but this one tastes awful. I cracked one in December. Good luck.
Well...it defenetely are NOT retired! Still, no idea was that bottle fresh or old, of course. But 10 is one of the better IPAs there, you should try.
I drank one aged bottle something like one month ago. I love Funky E Star, really nice beer. There could be some variation batch to batch though. So, it is good fresh, it is good when aged! PS at the same day I had his Frelser, also aged. That wasnt good anymore.
No possible to write better. I have to say, I really don't understand that complaint about his dates. As pixieskid wrote, it is two years, and yeah, of course it is too long for IPAs. But you know how old bottles are. You should remember, that many breweries in States don't date their bottles AT ALL. Mikkeller does. That Mikkeller hate is simply stupid.
I just got a bottle with a date on the side saying mindst holdbar til 07/01/16 wtf does this mean? The guy at the store said it had been there around 2 weeks. It taste good but not what I would expect of a simcoe unless it was lightly hopped. It's not malty enough to say it's dead but not flavors one would expect from simcoe hops. Anyone have an idea what the date means?
