Girardin Black Label Gueuze Cork Dating

Discussion in 'Cellaring / Aging Beer' started by callmemickey, Jun 21, 2012.

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  1. callmemickey

    callmemickey Initiate (0) Aug 12, 2007 Pennsylvania

    A few people including myself have been trying to figure out the dating on Girardin Black corks.

    Recent cork codes have generally taken the form of: "Ref Cx2010". I know there are other "2010" corks such as "Fx2010", "Bx2010" (Fond Gueuze Bierpallitiers), and "Ax2010". I am not so sure that the "2010" necessarily is the bottling date since Fond Gueuze Bierpallitiers (Bx2010) was released in 2009 and I know that I have purchased some batches of Girardin Black in the year prior to the year stamped on the cork.

    To further compound things, older bottles have used a different dating system. For example I have bottles that I believe were bottled in 2008 that are stamped: "x0608". I also have a bottle that I believe to have been bottled in 2004 that is stamped: "0904" and I know there are bottles out there stamped "a06 01".

    Anyone have any insight? Have other cork dates that follow a similar or different pattern? Or have Paul Girardin's email address???

    Cheers
     
  2. callmemickey

    callmemickey Initiate (0) Aug 12, 2007 Pennsylvania

    I forgot to mention that I also have bottles that say "Ref EFx2012" on one side and "Ref Fx2012" on the other.
     
  3. Thorpe429

    Thorpe429 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,655) Aug 18, 2008 Illinois
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    Great post. Hopefully someone can chime in here, as I've often wondered this as well.
     
  4. callmemickey

    callmemickey Initiate (0) Aug 12, 2007 Pennsylvania

    To make things even more interesting, just picked up some bottles of "Ref Ax2013"
     
  5. BearsOnAcid

    BearsOnAcid Pooh-Bah (2,215) Mar 17, 2009 Massachusetts
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    What if the stamp on the cork is from the manufacturer? :mindfuck:
     
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  6. callmemickey

    callmemickey Initiate (0) Aug 12, 2007 Pennsylvania

    My mind has been blown.
     
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  7. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,772) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    To repost something in another thread...My Tilquin cork says Ref B 1011. The letter might indicate the month where A is January, B is February(the label on my Tilquin says Feb 15th) and so on.
     
  8. callmemickey

    callmemickey Initiate (0) Aug 12, 2007 Pennsylvania

    A possibility... however i have ref c x 2011 tilquin with an april date
     
  9. ChrisPro

    ChrisPro Initiate (0) Oct 16, 2009 Illinois

    March cork leftovers? Leftovers seem to be a theme when it comes to dating lambics.
     
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