Alpine bottling/best by date question.

If Green Flash is imparting their manic bottle dating expertise nothing would surprise me.

 

I wouldn't make that assumption although some breweries do try to get you to believe their IPAs are actually good for 6 months. Drink that zhizz now!

 

Alpine doesn't bottle date in any way that I know of --- perhaps you do have a bottle from the new GFlash arrangement. All I can say is drink it fast -- Nelson and PH degrade rapidly after a couple of weeks -- Duet seemingly in a couple of days. Amazing beer -- very short shelf life if you want that bright and fresh hop flavor/aroma.

 

I checked my bottles from ABC and there aren't any dates. Most likely you got the bottles that were brewed at GF. And yes, they're amazing beers. Just had a Captain Stout last night and it was spectacular.

 

They do not bottle date. They date their cases only. That sticker was likely from a store that sold it

 

That would be ironic if Green Flash is dating their Alpine Beers but can seem to date their own beers.

 

Green flashes bottle dating problems at this point are totally hilarious. It shows their ineptness as a company that They can't date their bottles even though they have a spot on their label for dating and as well have bottle art that looks like it was designed by the fourth place finisher at the 2nd grade art event

Their new bottle and label for their new Silva Stout beer shows some promise especially if the beer is as spectacular as it has been the last couple of years.

If not their flagship beer will be Green Flash Alpine Nelson IPA

 

Are bottles available on the EC?

 

Do wonder if we may eventually see Alpine out this way, where Green Flash has solid distribution. Wishful thinking, because I have not read anything that would indicate this nor am I aware of their production plans.

 

Green Flash is anything but "inept". You may not like their new labels, but they are having the intended effect in the market.

Kids these days.

 

I like the Green Flash labels. They let the beer speak for itself. You don't really get suckered by fancy bottle/can art.

 

Alpine usually posts on their page when certain beers are bottles, but of course that's only if you're picking up at the pub. Also, it's Alpine. Their beers fly off the shelves and finding old Nelson is nearly impossible.

 

If that effect is sitting on the shelves in San diego then you are correct. And also how does not being able to do something that almost every major brewery can do not make them inept. And it's not even like they aren't trying. Their new labels have a best by spot on the label and they can't figure it out.

 

I don't think Alpine has ever had the issue of hanging around the shelves for bottling date to be necessary.

 

Precisely. Never really an issue.

 

You might want to consider the possibility that you don't have all of the information necessary to make a judgment about their aptitude based on one aspect of their label. Or don't. Your call.

 

It's possible (maybe even probable) down the road, but right now the only place you can "reliably" get Alpine bottles is at the brewery, so I doubt they start shipping them east before spreading out in the home market.

 

Firestone Walker has the same issues with bottle dating. But it's not as cool to bash them I guess.