Did anyone else notice that the 2013 BA Speedways have a "bottled on" 2013 on the bottle but the label says 2012? Good work AleSmith. Keeping up with paying attention to details once again.
It's a Barrel AGED beer. Just because it was bottled in 2013 doesn't mean that is when it was brewed. It says right on the bottles that it is aged up to one year in bourbon barrels.
They probably just had a lot of bottles from a single print run. The bottled on date makes it no big deal. Really, I'm a little embarrassed that someone in this community actually had the stones to whine about it publicly.
No worries. All unhappy campers may send their ruined BA Speedway Mislabeled stouts my direction. BM please and I'll return your note asap. Thank you !
The bottled on date rubs off quite easily if the beer sweats. A friend is about to open a 2013 but the 2013 date is now gone and it seems to be indistinguishable from the last batch.
I see one of three options at this point 1. Shut up and enjoy it 2. Protest ever buying another bottle from Alesmith and trade the bottle away at cost, pick another brewery to buy from until you find an error and post a complaint on a public forum. 3. Get trapped in a tornado and end up in a world you are not familiar with. See weird flying monkeys and little people while on a mission to find the wizard of Alesmith. Find him, find out he is human, click some ruby bedazzled beer bottles together. Click them three times while saying "There is no place like (insert any brewery except for Alesmith). End up waking up from your dream trying to make sense of what just happened.
It's not the OP's observation that bothers me, it's his tone. You think poo pooing Alesmith is working for you, eh? BA Speedway is and has always been a benchmark of barrel aged stouts. We're lucky to have this beer when it's available and your attempt to take them to task is ridiculous. What have you fucking contributed besides taking up space, tourist? Not one to snark, usually, but I've had a few and reading this riled me up. Cheers!
yeah I agree, the OP is being a whiny little bitch, who is drawing attention to barely anything. why not enjoy the extremely high quality of the beer inside the bottle rather then the minute detail that isn't even that important anyway. GFY.
If only there were some way to permanently mark them with oil-based writing implements. Or perhaps if someone made a sticky note of paper with an adhesive back. That would be real convenient. (this ranks pretty low in "beer nerd problems", which ranks pretty damn low in real-world problems already.)
