Five Brothers Date Code Interpretation?

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js216

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Jan 23, 2022
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I have just received a new pouch of Five Brothers, and under the barcode it says: LEWL2GCEvHREIXDSdE, and underneath, 22101719.

If this was a Mac Baren tin, this would mean 6/20/2010, but I doubt smokingpipes.com sent me a decade old burley.

So: when was this pouch manufactured?
 

jvnshr

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I have just received a new pouch of Five Brothers, and under the barcode it says: LEWL2GCEvHREIXDSdE, and underneath, 22101719.

If this was a Mac Baren tin, this would mean 6/20/2010, but I doubt smokingpipes.com sent me a decade old burley.

So: when was this pouch manufactured?

Five Brothers is manufactured by STG so first 2 digits correspond to the manufacturing year.