Comments on: Not ideal http://mondaynightbrewing.com/2008/04/07/not-ideal/ Sat, 12 May 2012 15:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: chris http://mondaynightbrewing.com/2008/04/07/not-ideal/comment-page-1/#comment-4045 chris Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:27:26 +0000 http://mondaynightbrewery.com/2008/04/07/not-ideal/#comment-4045 And this should be sage advice that you should always pour your beer into a glass, like those sexy glasses the MNB gang offers! If nothing else but so that you can actually "smell" the beer you are drinking so that you can actually "taste" it. If it smells like horse piss, it probably is! And this should be sage advice that you should always pour your beer into a glass, like those sexy glasses the MNB gang offers! If nothing else but so that you can actually “smell” the beer you are drinking so that you can actually “taste” it.

If it smells like horse piss, it probably is!

]]> By: chris http://mondaynightbrewing.com/2008/04/07/not-ideal/comment-page-1/#comment-4044 chris Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:23:05 +0000 http://mondaynightbrewery.com/2008/04/07/not-ideal/#comment-4044 Sweetwater had the same problem with a batch of bottles one time but were able to catch the problem before the beer shipped out of the brewery. The bottle openings were thin in places on a handful of bottles which caused the capping machine to damage them. The affected cases were replaced by the bottle manufacturer and problems like this were avoided. I'm really surprised that an operation like Sam Adams doesn't have better quality control processes. Unfortunately, the recall decision was likely based on the cost of recalling the beer and taking a temporary share value hit being less than the cost of potential lawsuits from people choking to death on broken glass or having the ever-so-fun intestinal fissures, especially in a society where many juries "stick it" to those dirty insurance companies for something that was an honest mistake. Boston Beer made the right decision. Sweetwater had the same problem with a batch of bottles one time but were able to catch the problem before the beer shipped out of the brewery. The bottle openings were thin in places on a handful of bottles which caused the capping machine to damage them. The affected cases were replaced by the bottle manufacturer and problems like this were avoided.

I’m really surprised that an operation like Sam Adams doesn’t have better quality control processes. Unfortunately, the recall decision was likely based on the cost of recalling the beer and taking a temporary share value hit being less than the cost of potential lawsuits from people choking to death on broken glass or having the ever-so-fun intestinal fissures, especially in a society where many juries “stick it” to those dirty insurance companies for something that was an honest mistake. Boston Beer made the right decision.

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