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Offline boulderbrewer

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Re: Do commercial brewers want to know when you find an infected bottle?
« Reply #30 on: November 11, 2015, 02:57:18 pm »
I want to know. I even check the beer rating sites weekly to see if there are any problems that someone might mention about my beer.

The one and only time (early on) I did not taste a batch, it turned out the caramalt was not the 30-40L stuff by more like carapils and it turned a dortmunder in to a german pils. Lesson learned.

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Re: Do commercial brewers want to know when you find an infected bottle?
« Reply #31 on: November 11, 2015, 05:11:01 pm »
Got to be careful around this crew! Every batch I meant! ;)
Let me know if you need any help with quality control. I work for free.

Are you willing to pay? ;)

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Re: Do commercial brewers want to know when you find an infected bottle?
« Reply #32 on: November 12, 2015, 12:01:13 pm »
A few years ago I bought a sixpack of Sam Adams Oktoberfest that was obviously bad-it tasted like soured Budweiser.  I sent an email to them, that afternoon somebody from the brewery called me and asked for more details about thee brewery of origin, bottling date, etc. A week later I got a check for $25 and a Sam Adams glass.  OTOH I bought some infected bottles from a brewery in Arizona, I emailed them twice and never heard a word from them.
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Re: Do commercial brewers want to know when you find an infected bottle?
« Reply #33 on: November 12, 2015, 12:21:07 pm »
A few years ago I bought a sixpack of Sam Adams Oktoberfest that was obviously bad-it tasted like soured Budweiser.

I had a sixtel from that batch.  Distributor had already heard from several bars and it was replaced post haste.