Hi everyone, I'm sort of a brewbie, so I'm new to appraising things, but I had an interesting thing happen today: I bought a bottle of Sour Opan from Firestone Walker, and it was double-labeled... I'll post a picture below. I'm not thinking much of it, but I sent a pic to one of my more advanced beer collecting friends and he urged me not to drink it because of the extra label potentially increasing the bottle in value. Thoughts? Can an extra label raise the value of a bottle, especially one that is relatively rare? Picture below... Sour Opal is on the left.
Here's a link to the photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=496629127154625&set=gm.912721018791233&type=1&theater
At the risk of giving a serious response to a joke/troll post, no an extra label will not raise the value of a bottle. And somewhat different discussion but I wouldn't consider 500 cases rare.
Thanks! I'm still new to collecting/aging beer. Not sure if bottling/labeling impacts the value. I know it does with a lot of commodities/collectibles, but I've always thought that what's in the bottle is what's valuable... Not the bottle itself.
Any value would be in the eye of a potential purchaser, and I don't see a market for this type on anomaly. I also have a bottle with two labels (I think it's a Dogfish Head), and one with the label upside down (Arcadia). I keep mine just for the novelty of them.
We bought two 12'ers of Brown Derby years ago in which every bottle label was upside down, yet they only charged me the regular price of $2.99/12. If I still had them, I would very reluctantly have traded both cases for that FW.
I had a Victory Yakima Valley double label bottle one time. The second label was all smashed and jacked up on the back side. Truly one of a kind. Er, actually not that rare. Just some bottle inspector/packaging dude dozing off on the job.
