This dating system is air tight.
Jokes aside, thank you for posting the decipher code. Very helpful.
Jokes aside, thank you for posting the decipher code. Very helpful.
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npod, I have a recent bag on Penzance which also has the 910C083 code. The plot thickens. Or maybe the highly trained Trappist monks who hand-write the labels with solid gold pens at Germain were a little drowsy from the otherworldy odor wafting up into their nostrils and made a mistake.
It was suggested to me that the 2019 conclusion from the code may refer to a production year rather than a calendar year. So for example, if the production year was Sept 1 2017 - Aug 31 2018, tins and bags in that period would be designated with the 8 for 2018 production year. If true, this may explain the 9, if the production year goes from 2018 into 2019. Just a thought though.
Based on Neal's photos, I guess some time between 2007-2010. I wasn't hunting Esoterica at the time, so a more precise answer will have to wait for somebody a little linger in the tooth than me.
Today's "Hap is an idiot moment" for your comic relief: due to this thread, I was looking at some Esoterica tins I own, and while inspecting some Margate from this year, I saw a code 'XXXXXXXX MAR' (I forget what the Xes were, and it's not 'Germain' to this story). I was really puzzled by the 'MAR' part though, and thought maybe it meant this tin was produced in March, and was seconds away from asking about it on here, when I realized MAR is for Margate... :|
For a pretty smart guy, I sure am dense sometimes.
For a pretty smart guy, I sure am dense sometimes.
peck, would your hypothesis hold up in a court of law? If there is a shadow of a doubt, then this system doesn't work. I am way too lazy to go looking through my Esoterica stash to verify any of this. Maybe one day I will look through my bags to see if this is a real thing or if it is just something peck thought up just to mess with everyone.
"Pre 2010, the codes are sketchy. Not as reliable. All these below are 2007-2011."
You were getting square tins before a year or two ago?
You were getting square tins before a year or two ago?
The 2019 bags are accurate as you start seeing codes for the following year in the 4th quarter of the year. I’ve got tins of Germain and eso that start with 9 from recently bought drops.
The code system stated in the first post applies all the way back to the white butera bags also. So for Npod - that white 8oz butera penzance is from 2011. Germain started using this code system with the Butera “era”. I know the next question will be, but what about 2009 and before? You see a one less number in the code, the code gets shorter but the first number is still the year. Butera codes from the late 90s only have three numbers, with the first still being the year.
The code system stated in the first post applies all the way back to the white butera bags also. So for Npod - that white 8oz butera penzance is from 2011. Germain started using this code system with the Butera “era”. I know the next question will be, but what about 2009 and before? You see a one less number in the code, the code gets shorter but the first number is still the year. Butera codes from the late 90s only have three numbers, with the first still being the year.
Square Penzmace tins started in very late 2016, with tins that start with a 7 code. Germain also started putting letters in the codes starting in 2017. No idea what the letters mean though!
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