Revolution brewing bottle dates?

bottle date should be somewhere on the label. looks like an old stamp type of dater.

 

Usually printed vertically on the right hand side of the label, IIRC. it can be VERY faint. I wouldn't think you'd be able to rub it off as it's ink on paper. but where there is a will, there is a way.

 

Rev's bottle dating needs much improvement imo. The date is first three letters of month followed by day & last two digits of year (e.g., Jul 17 14). Was just now looking at some bottles of Straight Jacket and I could not even read this year's bottle date (was located on the label under the barrel). It is there but incredibly faint. Last year's bottle was not much better (on the right side of the label) but I could read the '14' at least. The box from 2012 actually had the year printed on the box but I'm sure that feature was discontinued for cost savings reasons. The bottle date from that year was much better however. The ink is clearly legible. Also, I bought a bottle of Citra-Hero last week and I could not find any date at all. Their can dates are great, their bottle dates not so much unfortunately.

 

I couldn't find any date on the Citra Hero I bought yesterday. Granted freshness wouldn't be an issue with the bombered "Hero" series, but definitely could cause problems for Double Fist.

 

I wonder if you can't see the bottle date on the Hero series because the date is in black ink and the label is mostly black so you just can't read it

 

I thought they only bottle dated the hoppy stuff.

 

Welp, I did a thorough inspection of my Citra Hero last night and did not see a date anywhere.

 

Update. Got a couple Crystal Hero bombers last night. Nov 3 2015 is clearly dated on the label!