Hop Notch Best By Date

I think they do 5 months out, so sometime in early June, could be 4 months though not sure. I know its not more than 6. Its pretty fresh though, we just got the same batch in this week in a bunch of stores in my area.

 

Rule of thumb for most "best by" dates is 6 months. It does vary from brewery to brewery though.

 

<------- doesn't drink six month old IPA's. way too old for me. one month or less. no exceptions.

 

One month is a little hard. I am not criticising your preferences only making a practical observation. For an ipa, 90 days. MAX.

 

Yup

 

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/uinta-wyld-bottling-date.54183/

4 months from the best by. I started the thread above and e-mailed the brewery.

 

On my to-do list for breweries that have a best by or best before list. Let me know when you find out, i'll add the info to FBO.

 

I can think of many more US breweries using "5 months" (Boston Beer, Victory, Sly Fox, Sierra Nevada), "4 months/110/120 days" (A-B, MillerCoors) or "90 days" (many Stone beers, Ithaca Flower Power) than ones using six months. And many Euro imports are typically 1 year.

Unfortunately, there really is no "rule of thumb" when it comes to brewery suggested shelf life period.

 

See my post above, and the link.

 

If it's more than 2 months old I ain't touching it. But thanks for the info!

 

2 minutes apart, thanks!