Picked up a six pack of BP Pale Ale tonight. Granted, this is the first time I've had this beer, but it tastes very off and there is dust on the bottle. The code shows PA568, anyone know if this is a freshness code of some sort?
The PA568 refers to the batch number, directly underneath that should be a date code. The bottling date is six months before that date.
Just picked up 3 22's of Sculpin and THANK GOD, they finally have very legible yellow ink on the neck indicating the best buy date. No more stalking the case boxes they came from, HELL YEAH!!!
strange there are no dates below the batch number on these bottles, shady bottle shop! The good news is that I reached out to someone at the company and got a very quick reply and apparently they are sending me some new bottles! Cheers Ballast Point and good on you for refreshing customer service.
They now best by date. So if you got a code, you're nearing the 3+ month mark. From now on with Ballast point, DO NOT PURCHASE without seeing a best by date which is 110 day from bottling as someone above mentioned.
North Carolina just got a shipment of Sculpin in last week, I purchased a case and can not find any dates or codes. Did someone just dump old beer on us?
rather than start a new thread.... It seems that the different beers would have a different window.Sea Monster seems to have a longer window as opposed to any type of IPAs.However some Dorado just appeared at my local Bevmo with a BB 2/26/14.So I kinda guessed it was probably 1 month old.But how can this one have a 1 year shelf life ?!?! BTW I had 1 of the bombers I bought.Very good.
http://beeradvocate.com/community/t...-beer-that-doesnt-have-a-bottling-date.77716/ There is a link in that thread listing the different breweries and explaining if and how they list freshness dates
