What’s the year on this?

SmirkAtTheMerc · Jun 4, 2020

Hi, can any of you identify the year of this bottle. I don’t know much about them... Is there even a year on these types of bottles?
I know this bottle is “Mike’s Hard Lemonade.” It’s at least from the year 1999, and it still has all the lemonade in it!

I found it by my house in the woods, due to this virus I’ve been going around my property.

Bayoutalker · Jun 4, 2020

I'd say a year old or so at best as the cap hasn't rusted through. They rust out pretty quick.

Cliff

SmirkAtTheMerc · Jun 4, 2020

Bayoutalker said:
I'd say a year old or so at best as the cap hasn't rusted through. They rust out pretty quick.

Cliff

It’s at least 7 years old. Nobody at my house dropped it, or drank any.

Bagelbites · Jun 4, 2020

From the stippling on the bottom of the bottle, it's between 2009-2011, when they used that mold. Judging by the distance between the grooves of the cap, we can safely say that it was bottled at the Kansas facility, which only brewed Mike's Hard Lemonade from Jan to May (due to contamination issues at main facility) in 2010. Also, based on the mineralization that has occurred in the fluid itself, it's been exposed to lots of gamma light, which is most prevalent in Virginia in June. So, with precise accuracy, that bottle was dropped there in June of 2010, probably by a guy named Reggie.

Dave_e · Jun 4, 2020

Bagelbites said:
From the stippling on the bottom of the bottle, it's between 2009-2011, when they used that mold. Judging by the distance between the grooves of the cap, we can safely say that it was bottled at the Kansas facility, which only brewed Mike's Hard Lemonade from Jan to May (due to contamination issues at main facility) in 2010. Also, based on the mineralization that has occurred in the fluid itself, it's been exposed to lots of gamma light, which is most prevalent in Virginia in June. So, with precise accuracy, that bottle was dropped there in June of 2010, probably by a guy named Reggie.

Oh
My
Lord

:laughing: