Hello guys. I hope y'all are having a wonderful weekend. I have a question that I can't for the life of me answer. I've been living in Germany for the past 5 years, I speak the language very well, I'm very much integrated into German society, (even tho im European so that wasn't too hard lol) but this is the first time that I saw something like this.
I bought beers in the kiosk on the way home after a long day of work, and I noticed strange markings at the bottom of the cans, with different colors. Can anybody tell me what do they actually mean? I know they "should" mark the fact that the beer meets the traditional German quality standards, but why different colors?

Ps. I'm gonna drink those anyways, but I'm just curious what is it 😁 may y'all have a wonderful weekend 🙂

by heeimmdallr

7 comments

  1. You have to collect the whole rainbow, then you find a treasure!

  2. Maybe rhe shop owner has marked them according the expury date to remove expired ones faster. Or he did to prove a can as stolen, if someone claims having had the beer already when entering the store🤔

  3. Just guessing, but when I was working at a place doing their yearly inventory check, it was common to mark items that have already been counted and different people used different colors to be able to do a double check without being confused by using the same color twice.

  4. So apperantly these are markings the factory makes to see which manufacturing line a can was produced on. In case there is an error they don’t need to shut down the whole factory, just the one production line that was indicated.

  5. It represents the fizzyness of the drink – no shit. The emptier the „bubbler gas bottle“ for the drinking cans gets, the brighter the colorcode on the bottom. But I think many drink companies have their own color codes. I tried this with red bull because I didn’t believe it. And the black dots really had the strongest fizz to them, the bright blue, yellow and white dots were really soft fizzing drinks :‘)

    Just my humble finding, maybe someone can enlighten everyone or prove me wrong. Would appreciate.

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