The second line of digits represents brewery production information. I believe the best by date is on the beer bottle, and the bottling date is on the case. Only the regular 12oz. Most manufacturers will use their own coding system. The first two numbers in the sequence represent the year, the next three numbers represent the day of the year. Not bad. Auburn Alehouse:Uses apackagingdate. Boulevard:Uses apackaged Juliandate & abest bydate. Half Acre:Uses apackagingdate on theircases. Yuengling & Son is currently owned by Richard L. Yuengling, Jr. Uinta:Uses abottled onandbest beforedate. has 3 digits followed by a space, then one more digit. Founders:Uses abottled ondate. Most beer bottles have a date on them that isnt an expiry date, but rather a pull date, which is when merchants are told to take drinks off the shelf if they havent sold yet. On the reverse label of bottles, the date is imprinted. Sierra Nevada, on the other hand, recommends drinking it within 90 days of bottling. There should be small notches in the paper below the corresponding month and week when the beer was bottled. No store is going to always have nothing but fresh beer, he says. Distribution-company employees are taught how to translate the codes into dates. Format is DD/MM/YY. It is positioned next to the UPC bar code.The date is 150 days from bottling. google_ad_width=120; Format should be DD/MMM/YYYY. Find the text that reads "DOT" on your tires. From the brewer: The expiration date is coded on each bottle and every case of beer. Format is MM/DD/YYYY.Susquehanna:Uses abest beforedate with a 120 to 150 day window.Swamp Head:Uses abottled ondate. google_ad_height=125; Lift Bridge:Uses abottlingdate. From the brewer: We notch the best enjoyed by month and year on our bottle labels. It's on the cases only and also on the bottles themselves. As anyone whos ever popped open a skunky beer knows, brews do go bad. Urban Chestnut:Will use apackagingdate very shortly. On the cases only. From the brewer: There is an ink jetted date on each bottle just above the top of the label. Format is MM/DD/YY. Sapporo return vOut; P.S.- Ads for Bud touted the beers freshness. //-->,
