Julian Calendar dating. Why?

It is not Julian Calendar dating. The Julian Calendar is a different thing entirely.

It is simply a Julian date (or day number).

The purpose of the system is to make it easy to compute an integer (whole number) difference between one calendar date and another calendar date. This has an advantage for inventory tracking systems, for example. Such manufacturing or management purposes are the reason it is a common from of date coding products.

It is not done for consumer convenience.

 

I hate this. I do not buy Julian dated beer.

 

"Only one" ? Really? I've never seen any positive comments about Julian dating - other than my own, of course.

 

It's because people figured out the Caligula dating scheme.

 

Refusal to provides consumers with easily understandable bottling dates is intentional and feeble excuses for not doing so is balderdash.

 

I don't mind Julian dates at all. I do get wierd looks when I hold up lagunitas beer trying to find the date tho

 

Every month has ~30 days. Divide the number by 30, figure out which month it's from.

It's not ideal for knowing the EXACT day of packaging, but first week of jan is more than enough info to make a purchasing decision (or for warehouse/stock people to rotate first in first out)

 

Yawn.

 

@Squire already beat me to it!

There is no excuse for breweries not providing easy to read/understand dates for their end customers.

Kudos to @JFresh21 for refusing to purchase beers that do not have an easy to understand date on them.

If we collectively were like JFresh21 then all of the breweries would be compelled to provide consumer friendly dating.

Cheers!

 

Unfortunately, in some areas dating is ignored by almost all of the customers, all of the retailers and all of the distributors. So I can't fault the breweries too much.

 

Needless to say but it is each brewery's choice here. I would hope that they would want to provide their customers (e.g., the ones who want this information) easy to read/understand packaging dates. Thank goodness for folks like @JFresh21 who respond with a non-purchase for those businesses who prefer to not be consumer friendly.

Cheers!

 

I wonder how many of us contacted breweries who don't provide acceptable dating or...no dating at all?

I know that I haven't.

 

I have, at least a few. In fact I also told them which of their beers I was interested in buying and which beer from one of their competitors I bought instead because their competitor had a date and they did not.

 

I know that there are online converters, which take the Julian Date and convert it to the typical Gregorian calendar dating. The thing that really frustrates me is when the Julian Date, or any date for that matter, is sloppily printed on, or on a section of can making it unreadable.

 

Ever get a reply?

 

Cool!

We should start a list of breweries that we know don't put any dates on their packaged beer and take it from there. As in bulk contacting those breweries. Wyoming has Black Tooth, ...

 

No. But it makes me feel better.

Also there was at least one case where the brewery did start dating their cases and bottles about a month later. Might have been already planned, but...

 

Can't help much there since I don't remember any of them. I don't pay any attention (or money) to them, so....