White Chocolate possibly infected; Patrick Rue responds

So I was emailing The Bruery about being inadvertently double charged for my Preservation membership and I asked if I could get a refund on the White Chocolate I very recently purchased that's waiting for pick up...just credit my card and put it back in stock. I'd even take a credit, although I didn't mention that in my email. I sighted the possible infection issues. I got the following response:

I guess that's a "no".

 

Just wondering when did you get this response?

 

Who is Jessica?

 

Emailed them yesterday morning, got it last night. It was part of a previous string of emails though.

Me, I'm a hot chick.....

But actually, name is Jesse and somehow they got Jessica out of my email.

 

Just shared two bottles tonight with a few buddies, one from my order and another from my bro's (both 2013's). No gushing, same slight tartness at the front of the tongue on the bite, boozy and smooth all the way through.

No problems here.

Hope everyone else's bottles are alright.

 

I'm just curious, did you meticulously remove all of the wax before you opened your bottle?

 

In addition, the color of that label looks off to me. #nottocallanyonealiar

 

Do you not see how over saturated all the colors are? It was taken without flash, I'm guessing and it picked up on the whites/reflections and not the label color. Call him out about his dirty sink, not the label.

 

I typically do that with Bruery bottles. I have a friend who collects wax to use on his homebrew, and it's easier to remove in one piece if you take it off all at once.

 

Turns out I don't know shit about photography.

 

Yes, I did. It's easy to peel off at one time.

 

Was taken with a phone w/no flash. These were two 2013 bottles purchased off the website. I'm trying to figure out what does the color of the label have to do with anything?

 

Because my sink is the most important thing to talk about?? Last time I checked this was called BeerAvocate, not Better Homes and Garden. Go post over there if you're worried about my sink.

 

The reason for the questions was because, at least to the uncritical eye, it looked like a bottle of something besides white chocolate. The first time I saw the no wax, yellow tinted label I thought hottenroth. Looking closer, it didn't look much like the hottenroth label design, which is why I asked about the wax.

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I was sticking up for you dude. Sarcasm on the Internet is hard to pull off.

 

No, no - yours was hardly obscure. Poster was just being overly defensive.

 

Had one of these with a buddy last Sunday. I didn't notice any true signs of infection, but I was disappointed in the beer versus the 2012 vintage. The bottle went in recycling so I can offer any specific info. Glad I only picked up two this go around.

 

No problem...hung over this am and my panties were in a bunch...

 

It was a quick snap of the phone camera. I was more angry about it gushing all over the place so I threw it in the sink. The more I read about it, I don't think it was infected. I just didn't like the style and was wanting something different. On another note I haven't had Hottenroth. Is it worth giving a shot?

 

Opened another bottle during DDG and it gushed with the heavy tart taste. Guess I need to film opening the next as we already have pictures, but no video yet.