Peak Organic IPA packaging date

I would open the box and look on the can.

Enjoy

 

Yeah, it's frustrating. I've put plenty of their product back on the shelf because I couldn't find any dates

 

They don't date their boxed beers, except on the bottom of the can. Which is why I don't buy from them anymore...

 

I was pleasantly surprised to find their beers in a local supermarket. Unfortunately there was no date on the box so I put it back on the shelf. It would seem that that a simple solution would be to follow Sixpoint's lead - have a little cutout on the bottom of the box so that you can see the date on one of the cans.

 

Well, there is a reason - the brewery doesn't care. You note:

So, that's taken care of (or, more likely, to be ignored - "Do you know how much a box coder costs?")

But I'm thinking everyone should be opening these undated 6 & 12 packs (I see them from a lot of breweries*). When you find a date you don't like, be courteous and bring it to an employee to tape up. (Sure, you may get banned from some stores.) The benefit - the rest of see a taped pack, and we just don't buy it!

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Yeah, except for breweries with lousy date code can printers*, in which case you've got only a 1 in 4 or 6 chance that a legible can is over the die-cut. (Haven't checked lately - do the other ABV breweries' boxes use the die-cut technique? You'd think they use the same box mfg...

* Like say, Carton (below) - it's been months since I found a can with an entirely legible date code. If you take some part of the code from one can and then another part from another can, sometimes you can figure it out. No one at the brewery checks the coding?

2 cans I brought home from a sixpack I bought yesterday.

 

I stopped buying Peak after two sixers with no date. There are lots more dated beers to buy than to throw money at Peak.

Alaska was silent and never responded when I posed the question about no dates anywhere on their Amber ale. Months later they started putting holes in the cardboard to see a date on one can.

 

funny you should mention that, we are actually fooling around with moving it around the canning line to find a place it doesn't get jiggled by the crew while they catch and stack and weigh and so on. always starts great then when things get cooking and people start flying around it gets bumps and blurry. next spot is high on the de-pal. hopping for better clarity, time and tries will tell.