Important info on bottles?

Depends on the beer

 

I only care about the date. Any other info I can find elsewhere. Not saying I don't enjoy a little story on the bottle or can it just doesn't matter much to me.

 

Ipa I want a bottled on date. Other beers not quite as important

 

Bottled on date is first and foremost. ABV a close 2nd. And occasionally IBU will influence a purchase. The rest I can either find out/is unnecessary to me/already know.

 

The date is all I look for on the bottle. Everything else I either already know, don't care about or can be read after the purchase while I'm drinking.

 

You left out abv. Bottled on date and abv. Naming a style would be nice because what if I don't want to buy a mystery beer?

 

I hate nothing more than labels that have all kinds of random stuff on them, but they don't tell what style(s) it is.

 

Abv is required
Agreed... Not putting the style is confusing

 

I enjoy it when the brewery takes time to make the label interesting. A little story and how they recommend it served is great

 

I'd say the date and style should be on every single beer. The rest is optional, but enjoyed.

 

The brand name is pretty important. That's the first thing I look for. Don't want to buy Bud Light by mistake.

 

I'd like every beer to have a bottled on date. Just tell me when it was bottled, I can decide for myself what the best-by date is.

I'd also like to see nutrition information and ingredients listed. In general, I think people benefit from knowing what specifically is in the things they are consuming and how many calories those things are.

My second desire would be a bit more complicated. The first shouldn't be that difficult.

 

Does the beer's "background" include style? Drives me nuts when you get a bottle of "Joe's Radical Brewski" or whatever and have to scan all over the place to figure out what kind of beer it is.

I put nutrition facts, but ABV is really what I meant. Some styles have a pretty wide range, it's nice to know.

 

Also, I can't stand the "stories behind the beers." Some of them are indeed great (a recipe that started it all, an honorary brew for someone's dad, a story behind a community that overcame, etc.), but let's face it, many of them are a paragraph of the most cliched and exaggerated horse shit imaginable. For the IPAs it's a never ending string of nonsense metaphors to show its dankness. "This beer is like stuffing a pine tree up your cats ass, letting it ferment, taking that cats' urine and running it through a randal with grapefruits that grew out of that original pine tree you stuffed up the cats ass." And if one more asshole uses the word epic, I'm gonna lose it. Enough already.

 

ISO?

 

Bottled on date is most important, but I wish every beer would do what Firestone does with proprietor's vintage series. ABV, IBU, SRM, OG, FG, and time in the barrel if it's a barrel aged beer.

 

Not on the Federal level (and many states follow the TTB regulation as far as allowing but not mandating that the ABV is noted on the label):

 

Bottled on Date followed by ABV, I'm in the same camp as many here. Oftentimes those are the only deciding factors that go into which beer I buy/drink.