KBS Label Changes Year on Year

I know some of these pics are blurry, (my bad) but I didn't want to waste any more time on this. The group pic is 09-14 left to right. They are shown in this order. Large full bottle and a close up of the date of the bottle for each consecutive year.

I'm sure someone can shed more light on this but MOST brewers don't have the space to keep more than a years supply of bottles laying around. So for the most part the dates of the bottle not the contents can give us a ball park idea of the actual contents. This isn't a for sure thing but can aid in the dating of bottles. Not bottle manufacture buts the year on them but most do. Check out some of your own. I bet most of them have a year on there next to all the dots. ... . ... .. ..


09-14
09
09 close up
10
10 close up
11
11 close up
12
12 close up
13
13 close up
14
14 close up

 

I have 3 years in storage, easy enough to find the 12's. I have maybe 6 bottles with random numbers so I'm assuming they are the 14's, and I have 2 alone that have an Omega symbol kinda on the bottom, I'm assuming they're the 2 13's I had. I had 5 a combo of 12/13 added 7 new and I drank one I suppose was a 14. Would be easy for Founders to just date it instead of trying to decipher hieroglyphics.

 

I archive my bottles with a the year written very small in red sharpy on the glass. It is difficult to see unless you know what you are looking for. But BSBS sure does make it easier.

 

I write the year with a paint pen on the back of my regular stuff I'm just experimenting with. For my really nice stuff I use a manila tag so I can add batch numbers and all that jazz as well.

 

Anyone know what the black ink towards the bottle of the bottle means? An example of what I found on a marked 14 is 1421344130555 but then on some unmarked 14s that I got in a trade it says 1421348130618B and 1421348130621

 

Wtf...yall got too much time on your hands.

 

I thought the coffee wasn't nearly as pronounced on this year's label. Screw that.

 

Don't have a Founders bottle handy or know off hand whose bottles they use*, but codes in black ink near the base of the bottle are typically the bottle manufacturer's own code. Those would probably be (for example, not claiming it is the exact coding) bottles manufactured on the 213th day of 2014 with the rest of the numbers representing time of day, shift, specific bottle machine/line, other in-house info, etc.

* Most US beer bottles are made by Owen-Illinois - easily id'ed by the embossed OI as one of the series of numbers and dots around the bottom base of the bottle, but IIRC from other threads Founder's uses a different glass mfg. company. I think they might use Verallia/Saint Gobain bottles, which would have a SG around the base.