Central Waters BBS Infected 2013 batch

How is this an appropriate response? They should be offering a refund, not telling us to drink their infected beer.

 

I e-mailed them and have gotten no response

 

Gotcha - I thought it was he was in touch with CW...

Drinking some BBBW as we speak...

 

Yeah, I have the infected batch...bought mid Feb. Noticed it right off, but it wasn't nearly as bad a PM. I have one left.

I've got BBBW around the same time...tastes great as always.

 

Still trying to sell this at mgm calhoun

 

I think the stuff I've seen there is from a non-infected batch. Per this thread, it is only the 36513 that is infected, unless I've missed reports of others being bad? I hope not, I still have some 35113...

 

The bottles at mgm are 36513

 

It's sharty that they had a bad batch...

In the likes of one bottle limits of KBS, BN, BCBS... I'll sure take my risks for this one. The ability to walk into any liquor store and find 4 packs for < $13 of a good craft BA stout, that isn't Dragons Milk (No disrespect)... I'll take my chances...

Yet, I hope this is not a trend with CW. . . Thats why this forum is awesome. I know the bad batch number, can steer clear and still find the good ones!

With the other limited releases - It seems I need to balance cellaring versus cracking one open for a special occasion... Yet, with CW, I can have a good BA stout a weekly basis! Just by volume they got more of my $$ then Bells, Founders, and Deschutes combined!

 

Infected CW product is still better than most others not infected.

 

No. The infected stuff ive had tastes like chewing on tinfoil or licking a 9v battery. Its undrinkable. truly.

When its not infected, its great though. Maybe they should just pasteurize their BA beers. I'd rather have good PM and BBS every time than have it bottle conditioned. the carb yeast doesnt really add anything to a beer like this.

 

Oh...my mistake. I would say someone should alert them but doubt that would make a lot of difference. Maybe some Mr. Yuck stickers (do they still make those?) covertly placed on the box would alert unsuspecting customers...

 

Whatever you have in your pipe... GIMME!

 

Agreed!

 

Pasteurization doesn't exclude bottle conditioning. Often a brewery will pasteurize (typically a beer fermented with wild yeast and/or barrel aged), then add priming sugar/yeast or blend fresh beer, then bottle. I'm guessing it's a matter of cost/equipment for CW.

 

Ah, that's good to know.

As for the cost...how much has it cost CW recalling multiple batches of beer every year, plus the bad press that it created around the brand? Even if its $250k or more for a pasteurizer, I bet they've lost more than that in brand loyalty and recall costs. They should have changed things the very first year PM went south.

To CW: get your god damn BA beers right. When they're not infected, they're really good, (relatively) cheap, and plentiful. we NEED them in the market when KBS, BCBC, BN ect have 1 bottle limits and are $8. (since on on my high horse, you should add more body/malt to them too. The BBS would be a lot better if it were a little thicker.)

I just want to be able to buy a case of PM and BBS and not worry if its infected. I know I didnt buy any of either after the infection reports surfaced again because I dont walk around with the bad batch#'s on a card in my pocket; thus, when I see a random 4 pack sitting on a shelf, I assume its there because the regulars know its sour! (whether it is or not) So I can report first hand their infection issues have affected my buying behavior.

 

I don't know what other beers you are drinking but they must be some real trash

 

CW infected BBS > Dark Fatha

 

This is disappointing. We need all breweries to be accountable.

 

I think the real problem is that we are buying too much CW BBS and not enough saga. This whole problem could have easily been avoided.