I know (or at least home) most of you are all honest homebrewers. It has just come to my attention that there was a theft at Smuttynose brewery of about 31 kegs. I am sure these will find themselves at either a scrappers yard or for sale on craigslist. PLEASE WARN PEOPLE that these are stolen! I have a member of our home brew club who works at Smutty and they have been great to us, supplying yeast and info and really pushing people to homebrew.... Lets return the favor and try to help them out! The article can be found here http://portsmouth-nh.patch.com/articles/police-probe-theft-od
LAME. Hope they find them. I was just there for a tour/tasting last weekend and they were definitely a nice bunch of guys.
Hard to think a homebrewer would be using them if they're not soda kegs, which I doubt Smutty would be using. Will keep an eye and ear out though. Best of luck.
Thanks guys! Yeah I just bought a few to cut the top off and use it for a boil kettle and HLT, I paid more than I had to to make sure I got them from a legit source.
With a haul that big sounds like they will be sold for scrap. Did anyone contact metal yards about it?
This is not cool. But most craft breweries are so relaxed and low-security that I could see them being prime targets for theft. Were the empty kegs being stored outside? I have a hard time believing someone actually broke into a brewery to steal kegs.
I think it was the SCA. They got wrecked on mead and decided to raid a beer brewery for raw armor materials. Advise smutty to look for ladders made of period-equivalent materials and catapult debris.
This actually happens quite a lot. Bars and restaurants that leave empties outside have them stolen all the time.
