Class 1 · P3.1

Date codes, and which beers die fastest

Two kinds of date, four formats, and the order in which beers give up. Age damages every beer, but a hazy IPA and an imperial stout are on completely different clocks.

about 15 min2 screens20 questions

By the end of this class you will be able to

  1. Find the date on a can, a bottle or a carton, and read all four common formats
  2. Turn a best before date into the age of the beer in front of you
  3. Say which families need drinking in weeks, which in months, and which in years
Before you start

If you take one thing from this class, take the queue on the second screen. Hazy thirty days, hoppy ninety, pale lager a few months, big and dark for years.

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