New Sierra Nevada bottling date

awww man, you mean my days of calculating what day of the year number 238 is......is over? nooooooo

 

Check out the bottom of the back of the label, there should be an even easier to decipher code My Bigfoot has 12/12/2013 on the back.

 

REALLY wish all beers had their bottled on date on them.

 

Figures, I just got the hang of using the Julian Calendar bottle dating..

 

Finally, thank you!

 

So, I'm the only moron that saved a simple excel spreadsheet to his phone for looking up the julian dates?

 

Where can I DL this?

 

Here y'all go....

Stugotzo's Julian Date Calendar Converter - JPEG style

 

I always just divide the Julian date by 30 in my head.

Say it's 281. I know 9x30=270, so that means it was bottled around the 11th day of October

 

Looks like multiplication.

 

I feel stupid for not having been able to figure it out

 

This is delightful!

 

A problem with Julian dating is the inconsistent use by different breweries. Some put the number for the year before the day #, some put it after. This can cause confusion. Then there's the kind of rare situation I posted a thread about here a while ago, regarding a Julian date (3013) that could be interpreted multiple ways. Of course this can only happen 1 year every decade, but it's totally avoidable if all breweries used standardized mm/dd/yyyy.

 

Don't look quite yet. Some bottles have this code, some don't. We're in the process of changing everything over to this new look with an easy to ready date, but it's been a bit trickier than we thought. Hang tight though. Soon, we'll have it consistent and on all of our bottles. I'll let you know when the full switch-over is a go.

-Bill

 

Yea...mine still have the old code.

 

My wife and I both thank you. She drinks Torpedo and could never quite figure it out. She always calls me at work when she's in the store to ask me what the bottling date is.