Vermont Trip - Lessons Learned

And this all went to shit today

 

They responded on FB today to someone who asked about dating the cans and they said straight up that they do not date the cans. These numbers must not be a born on date etc...

 

Hill isn't even doing samples now

 

yes he is.

 

Thanks Duane_Opfer. BTW, you know John Kimmich is an enormous Steelers fan right? Being from Pitt and all.

 

With a car load of Heady and HF, who needs to go out to a bar?

 

And he has said he enjoys an Iron City from time to time.

 

Susan might be my favorite hoppy HF beer, delish!! Glad you had a good trip!

 

That is definitely a batch number from Ball, who is the manufacturer of the can.

 

Then why would John explicitly say they don't date the cans?

 

I think he means that it is a Bell's batch number (i.e., date the can was made), not the date that the can was filled./

 

Well that would imply when Ball made them and have nominal correlation to when the beer entered them (if the Ball angle is true). Kimmich saying that they (Alchemist) don't date their cans is accurate.

 

Breweries buy cans in crazy bulk. I'm sure they sit on cans for a while before filling them, so it wouldn't be very easy to correlate the date.

 

I think we're on the same side of the argument here. My point was that this type of code is on any can manufactured by Ball, and it has nothing to do with when the can was filled with beer.

For example, here are pictures I just took from cans of Oskar Blues and 21st Amendment that have similar codes. Both of these beers have separate "brewed" dates stamped on the bottom of the cans by the brewery.