bottle issue? - sierra nevada pale ale

You are mixing two distinctly different issues into one thing, and ONLY one of them can actually compromise glass integrity. That was the one which was addressed in a recall of product.
For your question about the image. You would have to take that up with the bottle manufacturer as to why mold ____ is showing more surface imperfections than mold ____. I might impress upon you that the mold itself is starting to show its age.
There's a host of descriptors, and molded glass fun facts over here https://sha.org/bottle/body.htm
The kind of detail on the bottles being discussed here specifically is far more common than you think.

 

If you want to be the one who sends a whole semi of glass back over a couple bottles that are not physically compromised. You can pull that trigger. But, first. What are the range of specs for visible glass imperfections where it veers towards becoming a danger? SIerra Nevada is not exactly a fly by night operation, so I'm pretty sure someone there has probably thought rather deeply about this at some point in their 30+ years of doing it, and with the recall they had earlier in the year. You can bet their glass supplier got a wicked talking to, and hopefully billed for lost profits.

 

A little bit of glass in your beer builds character, embrace it!!!!

 

That would be too easy and not necessitate pages of endless dialogue !

 

Not quite accurate since this allowed us to read some "molded glass fun facts" provided by @MostlyNorwegian

 

SN has always been super cool, glad they are working with you. They don't want any bottle issues and I am sure they will make things right. Again they cannot control stocking issues or shipping but if it was from their end I am sure it will get resolved.

 

What two issues am I mixing together? My theory was the bottling line, that seems to not be the case, so...? I'm not a glass expert so a little lost with this comment.

Thanks for the info, I do find this interesting. If it's common I can't say I have heard about it often.

 

This happened to me ages ago with a sixer of Sam Adams Boston Lager. One bottle had a neck that was completely gone, filled with white fuzzy mold and no beer. Guess I didn't notice, since they have the high sides on their packages. One other bottle was cracked, but still with it's contents. The other four were fine. We contacted Sam Adams, they requested some packaging info, and promptly sent a voucher, bottle opener, and a shirt.

 

Thanks for posting the pics....helps clarify the problem. Certainly a bottle manufacturing issue, although SN is still responsible...as a selling party the quality of their supply chain falls on them.

 

No, he’s not. Posted pics to prove his condition.

Don’t be a jerk and call people trolls.

Moderators do a good job of monitoring the forums.

 

i gotta admit I thought this was a troll post until he posted those photos. troll post or not -- the life of this thread says a lot about the state of the discussion board these days....

 

You buy from a retailer, you get home there's a problems with cracked bottles... You bring them back to where you bought em with the receipt. He replaces them, and your happy, then maybe he bitches to the distributor, who might bitch to SN. It's ridiculous fir you go bitch to SN, just my opinion.

 

Cracked bottles are a potential safety issue, possibly related to manufacturing and not handling. While the chain of ownership goes from consumer to retailer to distributor to brewer, the consumer ABSOLUTELY should notify the brewery directly.

 

Ronald,

I apologize for not responding sooner, I too am on vacation. I tend to check BA on a regular basis so sorry for the delay. It looks like you found the right people to contact. Brad Spittle will be your contact. As he stated we take these issues very seriously.

Cheers,
SierraTerence

 

Seriously, a comma, period or capital letter goes a long way. I'm not sure what you have against basic grammar. If you are interested in people reading what you right, you should consider starting a relationship with punctuation.

 

Write*

 

I kept looking right to try and find people reading about a relationship with punctuation. Thanks for clearing that up @BeastOfTheNortheast.

 

I keep finding myself going back to this thread out of pure morbid curiosity....to find out what could possibly be said after everything has been said about a few cracked bottles of SNPA. Can we take it any lower than a punctuation rip?? Come on BA...you can do it....