Corona Extra Recall

Damn remember last time this happened year n half ago....abi was launching montejo into the US market. Now theyre launching estrella jalisco...same thing happens again. When in mejico, do as the mejicans do... payoffs

 

Wow - so what about the actual water quality that they use in the beer? Shouldn't that form grounds for a recall too?

 

Outstanding evidence of the high quality standards of Big Beer.

 

Both of these Corona recalls were due to bottles manufactured by what the reports only call "third party manufacturers" - not by the brewery-owned glass plants. In the US, "craft" Boston Beer Co. had a similar recall a few years ago from bottles manufactured by Owen-Illinois which supplies bottles to probably hundreds of "craft" brewers - just look for the OI symbol embossed around the base of your beer bottle. Could happen to just about any brewer.

 

Boston makes better beer than Corona, but is officially out of the craft category due to size. Expansion may have led to inattention to subcontractors.

 

Nailed it.

 

Hello??? Clear bottles.....no visual inspection before leaving plant???

 

"Officially"? By whom? Perhaps for you, but not for The Brewers Association:

Which "subcontractors" ? BBC brews most of it's own beer, and the recalled beer was from their Cincinnati brewery. Owen-Illinois is their bottle supplier.

 

Easier said than done - typical view of a high speed bottling line in a "macro" sized brewery (from AB St. Louis):

How many defective units could you pick out as those bottles fly by?

 

Thats easy...all of them because they're in clear bottles....

 

How is it easy with clear bottles moving at that speed? What is it that is there to be seen with the defects in question? More information needed here.

 

http://www.peco-inspx.com/solutions/package-or-product-inspection/glass-containers

 

Good beers don't come in clear bottles...IMHO

 

Seems a great high end solution that doesn't involve visual inspection but should be able to handle fairly high speeds.

 

Different topic than visual inspection of clear glass bottles on a high speed bottling line.

 

OK, CLOSE to being kicked out: http://on.mktw.net/1RAnW54. OK, inattention to SUPPLIERS.

 

The industry standard definition (even though it is much in dispute among beer geeks ) of "Craft Brewer" is that of The Brewers Association - it is not based on the Federal Excise Tax criteria for the reduced FET rate for "small brewers". (Notte's alarmist headline and claim in that article is pretty much nonsense.)

In addition, the B.A. does not count BBC's cider and FMB production - thus why the 4.1m bbl BBC is #2 on the above image behind 2.9m bbl. Yuengling. Together, those two brewers' combined beer barrelage of 5.5 million bbl. accounts for around ¼ of the B.A.'s claimed 21.7 million barrels of "craft beer".

No way the Brewers Association would ever "kick out" The Boston Beer Co. and Yuengling over their current or near future production figures.

 

Reason 9,112,342 to not drink Corona

 

I don't think there's a high volume SUPPLIER of beer bottles with a better overall record for quality control than O-I.

http://www.o-i.com/uploadedFiles/Content/Sustainability/O-I-SustainabilityREPORT_FAsingle.pdf

 

How do you tell if Carona has gone bad?