bottle issue? - sierra nevada pale ale

Sierra Nevada is in the business of brewing beer, not manufacturing glass. What OP can do is give Sierra Nevada the printed info on the underside of the bottle, which should include the information that can track those bottles back to the original mold they came from. WHich if this is a literal concern over the safety of said bottles, those molds can be trashed.
As I said before. If this was truly a compromised bottle which managed to be jostled into place through a packaging hall. Get stacked upon, and also broken apart and transported to his packy safely without being compromised. I doubt there is an issue as the end consumer. Creases in the glass are sometimes part of the manufacturing of it. That's probably all that OP sees. I've worried about them, but never seen them become an actual compromise to glass integrity.

 

Are you sure it's really a crack and not just glass imperfection? I see this all the time on bottles. Beer is fine. Relax. Hate to see what you do when there is actually something wrong.

I had a case of 60 minute years ago that I cut the shit out of my fingers pulling a bottle out. Looked like another case smashed and broke into this one. Small shards were stuck all over the bottles. I contacted DFH and let them know the dates on the case. They wanted to send me swag but I just wanted to let them know. Could have pushed it but did not feel it was worth it.

Happy holiday all

Enjoy

 

They are in the business of bottling beer so it could be an issue of damage during bottling and no compromise of the glass at all. Many other breweries bottle their beer also and I don't recall hearing about as many recalls/hearing about issues like this. Is it a widespread, frequent problem? Doesn't seem to be. Enough to make me go hmm? Now, yes.

 

No. Rest assured. If you spend an hour digging through a couple rows of empties at ANY brewery. I can pretty much guarantee that you will find several examples of bottles that exhibit the sort of imperfections being discussed here.
As well. The nature of the recall which Sierra Nevada had to do was a definite imperfection in the molds they purchased from their supplier. If I recall right, it was the tops of the bottles, and not the neck.

 

I'm positive that what you describe occurred in the manufacturing of the glass itself. I've seen the sort of defect that you are talking about numerous times, and it's not a significant worry to the structural integrity. If it were. You would not be posting about them because they never would've made it to you.

 

can you post a pic I am curious to see the bottle?

 

IIRC SN and Bell’s have had recalls due to what is a called a “wire” defect at the top. A small part of the lip comes off when uncapped, and the glass part is like a small curved piece of wire. A mold defect at the glass plant causes this IIRC.

 

Yeah. I have the top piece of one such instance where the uncapping physically removed the entire piece in a clean break from the neck. I'd like to imagine it was a SN bottle because they and Anchor have the 12 oz bottles I prefer for bottling homebrew.

 

Glass is pretty fragile and sure it may not be the brewery, but it just seems odd to me to hear of all of these incidents within a year and I would think that the bottling line is worth a look at this point. I just looked and correct my recall was due to what sounds like a flaw with the bottles but hard for me to swallow [pun intended] that they would still be having the same exact issue.

 

Are you sure it is odd when a camera is at our fingertips?
Looking at the images. Nah. That's a manufacturing issue, and is most definitely not a bottling line issue. That bottle arrived that way.

 

So, who is ultimately responsible here? It is the brewery that delivers these bottled beers to the end consumers.

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@SierraTerence

 

Yep, still odd to me when I have heard this multiple times in about a year vs other breweries where I haven't heard it once. I'll agree after seeing the pics that it may be a manufacturing issue but my question now is why does this keep happening?

 

Thanks for posting pic, hard to tell exact cause, could be from stacking them or handling etc. Honestly I dont think you will get an exact answer, just post SN and let them know and I bet you will get a free 6 pack and they will check into it. Write it off as shit happens.....

 

Most buy SNPA because of it's consistency, but the OP is having all kinds of problems. Is he a TROLL from under the bridge?

 

Bring them to where you bought em, problem solved.

 

It could come down to the bottle supplier, that supplies their bottles with their dimensions. SN uses a Krones bottling line similar to many other breweries. Line rates may be different, but not that different from other large craft breweries.

 

You could do both.

Take them back to the store, but also get a picture/packaging information and contact Sierra Nevada.

Last year, I had a bottle of Stone Xocovesa that cracked into a nasty shard at the lip. I took a pic and sent it to them along with the bottling date/info. They wanted to see if this was an isolated issue or something more widespread with their bottles/bottle supplier.

They were very appreciative of the notification.