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Big Sky brews ink-jet upgrade

To better track product freshness and quality throughout distribution and eventual sale at retail outlets, Big Sky Brewery of Missoula, MT, recently began date-coding individual bottles of its unique beers, including Moose Drool, Scape Goat, and Powder Hound ales.

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Previously, the firm had only coded the corrugated shippers that serve as secondary packaging.

“We just felt we could do a better job of monitoring our dates more aggressively if we coded the bottles,” says Bjorn Nabozney, brewery vice president. “We now show packaged-on date, the year, a tank code, and the time of day the bottle was filled.” The same information goes on the corrugated cases.

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