New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS

[ercousin]

Putting an APA over a year old on the shelf now is a major fail and I won't be supporting this release until we get a fresher date code.

[AugustusRex]

Hopefully someone from the importing agency or the brewery can clear this up. I picked up a six-pack today with the same 25/03/15 code mentioned earlier in the thread. That date is on the back label of every bottle, and (at least with the bottles I picked up) someone has gone out of their way to strike out each one with black marker - poorly, at that, because I can still read the numbers through it. Also, the same code is stamped on the glass of the bottle itself, so that's a Double Fail.

I'd prefer to think that they just had a lot of extra labels that they didn't want to waste, and the dates stamped onto the 4x6-pack cases (rather than the info on the bottles) are accurate. But marking over expiry dates makes me inherently suspicious.

https://twitter.com/vonterrabev/status/ ... 6257378306

The best before date is August 22 2015, on Sierra Nevada's website it says that the pale ale expires 150 days after bottling. 25/03/15 is the bottling date

"Since our Pale Ale is full flavored, with lots of hops and malted barley, it should last up to 150 days when stored under optimal conditions"
Source:http://www.sierranevada.com/faq

[ercousin]

Hopefully someone from the importing agency or the brewery can clear this up. I picked up a six-pack today with the same 25/03/15 code mentioned earlier in the thread. That date is on the back label of every bottle, and (at least with the bottles I picked up) someone has gone out of their way to strike out each one with black marker - poorly, at that, because I can still read the numbers through it. Also, the same code is stamped on the glass of the bottle itself, so that's a Double Fail.

I'd prefer to think that they just had a lot of extra labels that they didn't want to waste, and the dates stamped onto the 4x6-pack cases (rather than the info on the bottles) are accurate. But marking over expiry dates makes me inherently suspicious.

https://twitter.com/vonterrabev/status/ ... 6257378306

The best before date is August 22 2015, on Sierra Nevada's website it says that the pale ale expires 150 days after bottling. 25/03/15 is the bottling date

"Since our Pale Ale is full flavored, with lots of hops and malted barley, it should last up to 150 days when stored under optimal conditions"
Source:http://www.sierranevada.com/faq

The PDF posted earlier in the thread specifically says export bottles get BB dates, one year from packaged on date. http://www.cdn.sierranevada.com/sites/d ... S_2014.pdf

Curiously the bottles that people have bought had the exact same BB date as the image on page 13 of the pdf. I suspect this is a labeling mishap for the bottle date, let's assume the case is correct.

Either way, this SNPA was either produced on March 25 2014 (1 year + 1.5 months old), or August 22, 2014 (8.5 months old). In either case this stock is unacceptably old to be paying $15/6 pack.

[beerguykw]

Is it possible then, for someone who bought the beer, to post pics of the dates they got?

[spinrsx]

new

ROYAL CITY BREWING SMOKED HONEY ALE
LCBO 424119 | 500 mL bottle
Price: $ 3.95

[spinrsx]

regarding the SN thing..



either way, I wouldn't call it 'super fresh'

[cratez]

Either way, this SNPA was either produced on March 25 2014 (1 year + 1.5 months old), or August 22, 2014 (8.5 months old). In either case this stock is unacceptably old to be paying $15/6 pack.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

I finished my 12 of Goose and it all was like Cratez's Saturday bottle, good stuff...

I was referring to a draft pint that I had at a golf course on Saturday. I have yet to drink a bottle that tastes good (especially compared to the draft). Odds are high that both the draft and bottled versions are brewed at the Montreal Labatt plant, but for some odd reason the draft drinks infinitely better than the bottles and almost tastes like a different beer entirely. That being said, my bottles were the older of the two date codes you mentioned; maybe the newer ones taste better.

[spinrsx]

sad to see this one go


La Trappe Triple Ale LCBO# 86934 | 750 mL bottle
$7.50
Product Discontinued

[AugustusRex]

Hopefully someone from the importing agency or the brewery can clear this up. I picked up a six-pack today with the same 25/03/15 code mentioned earlier in the thread. That date is on the back label of every bottle, and (at least with the bottles I picked up) someone has gone out of their way to strike out each one with black marker - poorly, at that, because I can still read the numbers through it. Also, the same code is stamped on the glass of the bottle itself, so that's a Double Fail.

I'd prefer to think that they just had a lot of extra labels that they didn't want to waste, and the dates stamped onto the 4x6-pack cases (rather than the info on the bottles) are accurate. But marking over expiry dates makes me inherently suspicious.

https://twitter.com/vonterrabev/status/ ... 6257378306

The best before date is August 22 2015, on Sierra Nevada's website it says that the pale ale expires 150 days after bottling. 25/03/15 is the bottling date

"Since our Pale Ale is full flavored, with lots of hops and malted barley, it should last up to 150 days when stored under optimal conditions"
Source:http://www.sierranevada.com/faq

The PDF posted earlier in the thread specifically says export bottles get BB dates, one year from packaged on date. http://www.cdn.sierranevada.com/sites/d ... S_2014.pdf

Curiously the bottles that people have bought had the exact same BB date as the image on page 13 of the pdf. I suspect this is a labeling mishap for the bottle date, let's assume the case is correct.

Either way, this SNPA was either produced on March 25 2014 (1 year + 1.5 months old), or August 22, 2014 (8.5 months old). In either case this stock is unacceptably old to be paying $15/6 pack.

I find it strange that the pdf you posted says the best before date is one year after bottling, and the faq section of Sierra Nevada's website says the pale ale has a shelf life of 150 days...

[Craig]

LCBO ‏@LCBO 1h1 hour ago
Some bottles of @SierraNevada wrongly have a March expiration - this was the date of bottling. The beer is good to drink. Sorry about this!

[darmokandjalad]

LCBO ‏@LCBO 1h1 hour ago
Some bottles of @SierraNevada wrongly have a March expiration - this was the date of bottling. The beer is good to drink. Sorry about this!

This makes sense. The two bottles of SNPA I had last night definitely didn't taste 8-12 months old (and I've had my share of old-ass pale ales over the years).

[spinrsx]

new

EEPHUS OATMEAL ALE
Canada | Left Field Brewery Inc.
LCBO 416818 | 473 mL | $ 2.85

[rfrf]

http://vonterra.com/blog/

[spinrsx]

"The beer is incredibly fresh, as it was bottled March 25th, 2015"

substitute the word 'incredibly' with 'fairly'

I also like this tweet from the lcbo:

"if it was expired it wouldn't be on our shelves"

Stale beer at the lcbo?! No sir!

http://vonterra.com/blog/

[jp_jkl]

"The beer is incredibly fresh, as it was bottled March 25th, 2015"

substitute the word 'incredibly' with 'fairly'

I also like this tweet from the lcbo:

"if it was expired it wouldn't be on our shelves"

Stale beer at the lcbo?! No sir!

http://vonterra.com/blog/

Considering I often see six week old (or later) Smash Bomb, Mad Tom or Rhyme and Reason on LCBO shelves, the SN Pale Ale being here at six weeks is pretty good.

I was in Michigan last month and all the SN Hop Hunter was brewed in mid-Feb. I couldn't find any Two Hearted that was less than 4 months old either. I was pretty disappointed, especially after I've found very fresh Two Hearted at Premier several times.