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Bottle dates on the ABT 12 at the lcbo
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:47 pm
by spinrsx
Bought some of the St. Bernardus ABT 12 at the lcbo.. I've been over every inch of the bottle and cannot find a date. Any else buy some of this and have a date on theirs? I assume it was brewed in 2013?
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:10 pm
by dale cannon
should be a 'best before' date in format YY MM DD on the label. Check the cork and the bottom of the bottle too.
If you find it, 'best before' date is 5 years out from bottling date.
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:29 pm
by jrenihan
The date is on the top of the cage and is difficult to read. I don't have a bottle handy, but it was definitely bottled this year, I believe in May (the BB date is 2018).
Ren
Re: Bottle dates on the ABT 12 at the lcbo
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:19 pm
by Belgian
spinrsx wrote:Bought some of the St. Bernardus ABT 12 at the lcbo.. I've been over every inch of the bottle and cannot find a date. Any else buy some of this and have a date on theirs? I assume it was brewed in 2013?
I don't believe St. Bernie are in the business of cellaring their beers.
So iI'd guesa the newly-arrived Abt 12 was shipped fresh, and you could pencil a '2013' on the label for future sake.
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:01 pm
by dale cannon
It's on the hood. 17 05 18. So bottled May 18, 2012 supposedly.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:51 am
by spinrsx
Oh I see it now, thanks. 17 05 18 would be May 2013 by my math
dale cannon wrote:It's on the hood. 17 05 18. So bottled May 18, 2012 supposedly.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:07 pm
by dale cannon
spinrsx wrote:Oh I see it now, thanks. 17 05 18 would be May 2013 by my math
dale cannon wrote:It's on the hood. 17 05 18. So bottled May 18, 2012 supposedly.
Pretty sure we're using the same math, it's just that we're interpreting the BB date differently. As I understand it, they use a YY MM DD format, which would put the BB year at 2017. They date the BB 5 years out from bottling. 2017-5=2012. But who knows, maybe it's DD MM YY. Either way, you've got time on your side with that bottle..
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:37 pm
by Wheatsheaf
I checked the code on a different bottle: it's DD MM YY.
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:37 pm
by instantkamera
Yeah mine are def DD MM YY.
This is fairly easy to tell with a few bottles. The last 2 digits are ALWAYS 18 on mine, so that would be the year (least variable portion of a datestamp is the year).
The middle 2 digits are 05 for all of mine as well. Could be day OR month.
The first 2 digits on two different bottles are: 17 and 24. This automatically makes it the Day (most variable portion of the datestamp and 2 digit numbers > 12).