Born on Date

I have seen some pic's of you all that have a descriptive beer list (menu) for your Keezers & Kegorators. I have a white board for mine. My main question is if you list the "Born on Date" is it the date the beer was kegged? Or the date the yeast was pitched?? Also, besides Name, Born on & ABV....what do you all list on your menus? Just curious..........

All my **** is on Google calendar which is not as convenient as a bar wench honestly.

iambeer said:

All my **** is on Google calendar which is not as convenient as a bar wench honestly.

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Same here, I use iCal to keep track of things. If it didn't send me an alert I'd never remember to take gravity readings, or bottle anything...

Also each batch is numbered so I know what's what.

I have a "kegged date" column on the spreadsheet I use to keep track of my kegs.

Still looking to see if people think the "Born on" date is when the yeast is pitched or when the beer is packaged?

Just to throw out an analogy, (with apologies to all), we don't consider a baby to be born until it is delivered. Going by this, you wouldn't consider your beer to be "born" while still in the gestational period, only when it has left the mother carboy, and placed in a bottle?

Did I really just type that?

I would consider born on when it was kegged.

KBentley57 said:

Just to throw out an analogy, (with apologies to all), we don't consider a baby to be born until it is delivered. Going by this, you wouldn't consider your beer to be "born" while still in the gestational period, only when it has left the mother carboy, and placed in a bottle?

Did I really just type that?

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You did. I always regarded wort as the fertile womb, and yeast as a load of semen splashing happily into the inviting malt-rich environment. So I'm right there with you.

iambeer said:

I always regarded wort as the fertile womb, and yeast as a load of semen splashing happily into the inviting malt-rich environment.

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Is that what you're thinking when you drink it?

KBentley57 said:

Just to throw out an analogy, (with apologies to all), we don't consider a baby to be born until it is delivered. Going by this, you wouldn't consider your beer to be "born" while still in the gestational period, only when it has left the mother carboy, and placed in a bottle?

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That makes sense..... So I shouldn't feel weird about keeping the afterbirth in my fridge when I harvest yeast.......

WhiteEagle1 said:

Still looking to see if people think the "Born on" date is when the yeast is pitched or when the beer is packaged?

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"Born on Date" is a BS marketing ploy invented by the BMC Mafia.

KBentley57 said:

Just to throw out an analogy, (with apologies to all), we don't consider a baby to be born until it is delivered. Going by this, you wouldn't consider your beer to be "born" while still in the gestational period, only when it has left the mother carboy, and placed in a bottle?

Did I really just type that?

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iambeer said:

You did. I always regarded wort as the fertile womb, and yeast as a load of semen splashing happily into the inviting malt-rich environment. So I'm right there with you.

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WhiteEagle1 said:

That makes sense..... So I shouldn't feel weird about keeping the afterbirth in my fridge when I harvest yeast.......

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And I thought I had issues...

Pick whatever reference point you prefer and stick with it. Depending on why you're keeping track of it, different references might make sense.

I tend to track the bottling date, for no other reason than it's a convenient time to mark the box. If I wanted to mark the brew date, I'd have to look that up, so I just stick a label with today's date on the box and file it away in the closet to condition. It also makes sense because that's the start of carbonation, so I need to know that date to decide when to start checking whether it's done.

I have a log entry in my brewing log that indicates when I bottled it, so I can use that to find the brew notes if I need to.

I personally use bottling date.

Also: man, this thread got weird.

WhiteEagle1 said:

That makes sense..... So I shouldn't feel weird about keeping the afterbirth in my fridge when I harvest yeast.......

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We buried and then planted a tree over the afterbirth of our first-born.

Some Native tribes believe that eating the afterbirth promotes health and good luck to the family.

Aaaannnnyyhow........

Cpt_Kirks said:

"Born on Date" is a BS marketing ploy invented by the BMC Mafia.

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...and then adopted by some.

http://stonebrew.com/freshbeer/

dunnright00 said:

...and then adopted by some.

http://stonebrew.com/freshbeer/

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This thread reminds me of a line from "The Jerk":

"Take this away and bring us some FRESH wine!"