I wonder who put those neck tags on some of the bottles...
In a rare moment of sanity, Greene King have started using unglazed lables, (with a traditional design) for their Light Ale bottles.
The result does not look ersatz, tacky or contrived - just a sound everyday label, that looks the part.
I'm easy about VP producers using glazed or unglazed lables - each to his own - but the paint splash is becoming a bit silly..
I don't know of any producer who takes care to make sure the bottles are laid the correct way up when they put them into wooden cases - so they presumably consider that it does not make a jot of difference which way round they are cellared.
For the last 30 years, bottle makers have put a locating indent on the back of bottles (in the glass), to enable (I believe) the labelling plant to get the back label exactly opposite the front one.
They were not always used in the early days, so some bottlings of the 77's and 80's have the locating indent on the front, side, or wherever!
But in modern bottlings the position is consistantly at the back - so if the paint splash really did achieve anything...
..it is now redundant!
Tom
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