FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 24-YR. HISTORY, the Boston Beer Company, brewers of the Samuel Adams line of craft beers, has had to issue a recall of some of its product.
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In a press release Monday, the BBC announced:
April 7, 2008–The Boston Beer Company (BBC) today announced a voluntary recall of select 12 oz glass bottles of its Samuel Adams beer which may contain small grains or bits of glass. The precautionary recall comes after routine quality control inspections at the Company’s Cincinnati brewery detected defects in certain beer bottles, manufactured by a third-party glass bottle supplier that might cause small bits of glass to break off and possibly fall into the bottle. The affected bottles come from only one of the five glass plants that supply the Company with bottles. This plant supplies about 25% of BBC bottles. While the Company believes that the number of bottles from this plant that actually contain glass is significantly less than 1%, it took this measure to protect the safety of its drinkers.
The bottles in question were made by the Owens-Illinois glass works and have an identifying number embossed into the glass. The number is found along the edge of the very bottom of the bottle and has the following marking: The letter “N” followed by the number “35″ followed by the letters “OI”.
You can read the entire press release which has the full information about the recall HERE.
