Any particular markings anyone knows of on the bottle that helps determine the year of an Ale Smith Speedway? I traded for one recently stated to be a 2009. I have no reason to doubt the trader, but the only thing I can tell as an indicator is "2009" written on the front in silver paint marker. Any help confirming would be great. Thanks.
While ^ is a great site, I don't see anything specifically speaking to Speedway as I've never seen anything on the neck of the bottle.
A bit more digging indicates Bottle dating seems to fairly recent for Alesmith. http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/is-this-a-date-on-my-speedway-stout.142615/ In which case the site won't help with the OP's current question and he'll just have to go on trust.