New Trail now with canning dates?

Yes, let's hope this is a systemic change.

Cheers!

 

Took the alchemist just as long it feels

 

Drinking a Bonfire purchased last week, and it's not dated. But hope springs eternal. NT makes really good beer. Their refusal to date-stamp has been off-putting.

 

Bonfire was released before Back Cast, so there’s hope.

 

Yes, they have started dating their products and I noticed it on the stovepipe cans. It's a recent change so if you pick something up without a date you know that it is older.

 

Do you remember the dates on the stovepipes? Just picked up a couple and there are no date stamps on them. Assuming they are from this year, maybe a month or 2 old, since my local Sheetz goes through them quickly. When they’ve left the box out in the cooler, which is stamped, it’s always been a month to 6 weeks old.

 

Actually now that you are making me go into my memory banks it may have been a single can with the date and not one of the stovepipes. The next time I am at the stores I will check a few.

 

Double Replenish was released a week ago and does NOT have canning date.

 

Cue the sad trombone

 

I checked the stovepipes and none had canning dates. I will check again one day down the road to see if they start dating these too.

 

I bought a tropical double heels stovepipe last night that had a super small canning date of 3/6/2023 on it.

Pretty ridiculous that they can't be consistent with something like can dating.

 

And that date is on the bottom of the can?

Cheers!

 

How was it and how does it compare to DBH? I have yet to try the tropical version.

I have the same question, as I looked a few over recently and found nada.

 

I too have been looking and I have yet to see a date on the bottom of a New Trail can.

On a related note I had a 5-10 minute conversation with a New Trail employee at a beer festival in Philly last year. One of the discussion topics was about their lack of dating on the cans. I stated to the guy that I personally refuse to buy their products since they refuse to date their cans. He remarked with something like "well, we do sell a lot of beer to people" to which I replied they would sell their beers to me if they ever decided to date their cans (and I could find them fresh).

I guess that for New Trail the decision as to whether they implement can dating is influenced by: if people are willing to buy our beers why pay the cost to implement can dating? Perhaps they will reach a point where they change their mind if enough consumers decide to do as I do: no date = no purchase?

Cheers!

 

It's one of the many reasons why I think beer should have to play by the same rules as other beverages and include Food Labels, dates, etc.

 

Have you seen Crisp in six-packs at any of your local beer retailers?

Cheers!