[freiheit]

As a somewhat picky consumer of hoppy beers, I really dislike beer cans in cardboard boxes for a simple reason: you can't see the canned-on date. It's not a problem with some of the smaller beer-specialty shops, but in both grocery stores and bigger bottle shops, it's not uncommon for beer to still be on the shelf well past a date where it doesn't taste as good anymore.

You can open the cardboard in the store to peek at the bottom of the can, but that sort of thing may be frowned upon.

[Faaak]

Or you can just print the date on the cardboard ?