I'm looking at the underside of an IPA right now and it says "BREWED ON 1/26/19"... it's a can FROM THE FUTURE?!? This is a first for me... does this happen often? Has it happened to you? I'm 95% certain the year described is 2019, not 2018. And its BREWED ON, not ENJOY BY etc.
It’s rare to see a wrong date on a can since most date codes for cans are adjusted digitally. It’s more common if the date is on a label in which case it is frequently a stamp and the dates can be hard to read for the operator, occasionally resulting in a typo that goes unnoticed. To me, it sounds like an accidental best by date if it says it was filled that day.
See, now this can has a longer shelf life, was not even made yet so it cannot go bad. LOL BBD is my guess also, just a typo. Cheers
I have definitely seen some 2018 dated cans that look like 2019 but it is certainly possible the brewery just made a mistake. I'd probably e-mail and ask them
Ipas fall off 6 months before fermentation so you'd best just dump that. Unless of course it's a DIPA and then it's become a barleywine.
A cool cohort of cartographers and geophysicists are working on an International Beer Date Line in the remote Pacific Ocean. Roughly similar to The International Date Line. Maybe this is related, but for just one day ahead...For release in Sydney.. Maybe that 9 looks a lot like an 8. Some of Lagunitas' Julian dating has odd looking numbers that are confusing.
Step away from the beer quickly...WORMHOLE!!!!!! Bet it was supposed to by best by, and they forgot to change from the previous run where they were use canned on. Could be a mobile multi-brewery canning line.
If it's from a dot-matrix printer, my experience is that those printed characters are frequently distorted, presumably because of the movement of the can while printing occurs. So yes, I've seen dates that are suspicious because of the distortion. What is the beer? Maybe someone else who has that beer will corroborate and post here.
2018? 2019? Hell 1918! Bottoms up my friend! Probably a distort on the printer. Would be way cool if was a distort in the actual can body.
