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What do the numbers on the Guinness labels mean and why isn there a set of numbers on older Guinness bottle labels?

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What do the numbers on the Guinness labels mean and why isn there a set of numbers on older Guinness bottle labels?

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Take the first two numbers and add 11. This was the year the batch of beer was brewed. The remaining 3 numbers stand for the day and date. Guinness stopped the date labels some time in the 1990s. Ernest H.