Glass particles force Sam Adams beer recall

[bicentennial_baby]

Boston Beer Co., the Boston brewer of Samuel Adams craft beers, said it is recalling an undetermined amount of beer because of defective bottles that may contain glass particles.

The company said the defective bottles came from a glass company that provides Boston Beer with about a quarter of its glass bottles. The "small grains or bits of glass" were discovered during a quality control operation at the firm's Cincinnati brewery, Boston Beer said in a statement. The problem was confirmed Friday, and was traced to bottles coming from a single manufacturing plant.

The company said it has not received complaints or reports of injury. A spokeswoman, Michelle Sullivan , estimated that the particles of glass are found in fewer than 1 percent of the bottles coming from the problem plant. Only Samuel Adams beers in 12-ounce brown glass bottles are involved in the recall. Potentially dangerous bottles are embossed around the bottom with the code N35 followed by OI .

Jim Koch , founder of Boston Beer Co., said it is the company's first recall since it began in 1984.

"We are disappointed and disturbed by this development, and we are doing everything we can to address the situation," Koch said in a statement. "Brewing great beer is not enough. Because of these bottles supplied to us from an outside vendor, we didn't live up to our drinker's expectations."

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/04/glass_particles.html


Here's the site if you have the beer, we did: http://consumerinfo.samadams.com/cidefault.htm

[tazkcmo]

1. Love Sam Adams

Seems they are on top of the situation. Also note the problem was discovered during a QC process. Sounds like a great process. Yay Beer! Yay Sam Adams!

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Yeah, I dumped the last two bottles...Better to be careful

Oddly enough, my local store is still selling the recalled bottles. Yikes!

[lazyriver]

2. Wow. I found a tiny shard of glass in a Sam Adams this weekend

but figured it was because I opened it with a pair of pliers and chipped the neck somewhere. Now I wonder.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. What kind? I think it's the Boston Lager

That's what we had, and we had the recalled bottle code. I looked at the Boston Ale bottles, they have a different code altogether.

[lazyriver]

10. Lager. That bottle and the rest of the six pack is still in

my returnables can.

[Skink]

8. That wouldn't hold up in court

:beer:

[lazyriver]

11. Nor would it have to.

I'm not the litigious type and even if I were, c'mon, I opened the beer with a pair of pliers. Serves me right for being so uncivilized with such a classy beer.

[KansDem]

4. Man! After my health problems of 2003, I switched to Sam Adams Light!

I'll have to check my bottles' code when I get home tonight!

Thanks for the links! :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

6. You're very welcome!

Hopefully it's just the Boston Lager. :pals:

[earthboundmisfit]

7. Here's an alternative you might enjoy:

Samuel L Jackson Beer
:toast:

[bicentennial_baby]

9. "A fucking shark ate me!"

:rofl: One of my all time favorite skits...

[Initech]

12. Gotta love Chappelle's Show!

:rofl:

[PatriotJack]

13. Uh-oh.

I've got nothing for dinner now. Damn.

[GoesTo11]

14. This must be a large scale problem

I just checked and have it too. That makes 4 or 5 people just on this thread. Time to short stock in Sam Adams!