Anyone know how to date a beam bottle?

[Bourbon....Neat!]

So I was travelling and found a dusty (literally) bottle of bakers.  Just curious if it is even very old.  It has a code on the side of the bottle.  Anyone know how to interperate the code?  This bottle may not be that old but it is definitely older than what I see on the shelves now.  It has a silver ring around the neck on top of the wax.  It also has a neck tag that talks about the small batch collection.  The neck tag has a copyright date of 1996.  Not that the copyright date really helps.  

 

Like I said, just curious.  It was only $37 so it was a good price regardless.

[kevinbrink]

13 hours ago, Bourbon....Neat! said:

So I was travelling and found a dusty (literally) bottle of bakers.  Just curious if it is even very old.  It has a code on the side of the bottle.  Anyone know how to interperate the code?  This bottle may not be that old but it is definitely older than what I see on the shelves now.  It has a silver ring around the neck on top of the wax.  It also has a neck tag that talks about the small batch collection.  The neck tag has a copyright date of 1996.  Not that the copyright date really helps.  

 

Like I said, just curious.  It was only $37 so it was a good price regardless.

I don't know the codes but some good evidence to place the bottle in the 90's, I have a couple of Baker's with the Gold Ring around the wax and pretty sure the date on the Small Batch tag is early 2000's. 

[AlexM]

Dinner and a movie?

 

[Enoch]

Not sure when they changed but the older bottles (1990s?) had a different label. You could still fine them in 2009 but the new labels were out by then.

[kevinbrink]

49 minutes ago, Enoch said:

Not sure when they changed but the older bottles (1990s?) had a different label. You could still fine them in 2009 but the new labels were out by then.

I haven't seen one of those labels in ages, on the old label the middle number of the batch code was the year of distillation, on the new bottles the batch code has never changed as far as I can tell and the middle number is 90 that leads me to believe that the change happened around 1997 or 1998, four an old post from 2009 on BourbonEnthusiast.com that says the guessed the label change was 5-7 years prior to 2009 so...

[Bourbon....Neat!]

Here are a couple pics

[Bourbon....Neat!]

The bottle code is 15461310.  Tried to take a pic but it is super faint.

[Bourbon....Neat!]

7 hours ago, AlexM said:

Dinner and a movie?

 

That's too old fashioned.  Now it's Netflix and chill.

[tigerlam92]

I had drank a couple of this and they are quite good. For $37, that’ll be a great buy.

[Kpiz]

I recommend checking the bottom of the bottle for a two-digit code that may correspond to a year the bottle was made. That's probably the best bet for aging this guy.

 

Have you seen the Collectibles area of the site?

[EarthQuake]

Well I suppose you would ask it out to dinner, or perhaps to the movies, and see how it goes.

[fishnbowljoe]

1 hour ago, EarthQuake said:

Well I suppose you would ask it out to dinner, or perhaps to the movies, and see how it goes.

 

Nope. I ain't gonna go there................ 

 

 

Biba! Joe

 

[Bourbon....Neat!]

8 hours ago, Kpiz said:

 

Have you seen the Collectibles area of the site?

I never looked in there because the description says it's for "bourbon memorabilia". 

[Kpiz]

14 hours ago, Bourbon....Neat! said:

I never looked in there because the description says it's for "bourbon memorabilia". 

That's where info on all out of production/dusty bottles is housed. Lots of great stuff in there.

[Herbalthought]

i believe there are only 2 batch numbers with this label so far
Well here in europe anyway ive only seen 2 codes and i check these everytime i see them

https://www.whiskybase.com/search?_token=PP1Kz12KA2qA8Jicj9JzuMXgzqCFMMo9X0AVcBzR&q=baker's+07

maybe that helps