Almost everyone has had a beer bottle (whether opened or not) in their hand. But who has already noticed the dots at the bottom of the bottle?
Just take a standard Central European reusable beer bottle (NO! This is not an invitation to drink!). And then take a quick look at the glass above the bottom of the bottle.
What is striking? That's right, there are individual characters and dots in the glass. Here we are particularly interested in the points, because there is a really great legend about those points:
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You hear again and again that these dots on the beer bottle are braille, i.e. Braille. Braille is a font made up of dot patterns that are either pressed into a material or applied. Blind and visually impaired people use this font.
Fact check: Braille on a beer bottle?
But are these points on the hole Braille? If so, then what does it say? “This is a beer”? “Be careful, alcohol”? First, let's take a look at Braille:

Since we all diligently hold a beer bottle in our hands, we can now easily compare: No, the dots on the bottle do not show any meaningful correspondence with the patterns. From this it is easy to see that we are not dealing with Braille here.
The solution:
To find out exactly what the points mean, we contacted ten different breweries. It was clear that we wouldn't get an answer from everyone. After a while of waiting, we received an answer from the Oettinger, Gösser, Veltins and Krombacher breweries. Exciting: In fact, it takes a little more research to explain the points yourself.
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All of the breweries mentioned were able to confirm in their response that the points mentioned were a form coding from the bottle manufacturer. It is an encrypted code that also allows the producer to trace his production.
In addition, the press office of the Oettinger Brewery sent us a document from the Glass Packaging Action Forum. In it you read:
Several dots mysteriously appear, often on the opposite side of the markings described above. They are a reading code that also tells the glassworks in what form the container was made. This code can later be used to determine exactly in what form the bottle was produced.
The remaining symbols
Of course there are other small symbols to be found on the beer bottle. What this means in detail can be found in an extremely extensive work in which all the glass symbols used are listed: www.emhartglass.com .
This might also be of interest:
“Reduced” barcodes on the beer bottle
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