Sam Adams recalls beer

by Bob Sassone, Posted Apr 7th 2008 @ 3:27PM

Sam Adams beer bottle Now the recall mania has hit beer lovers.

Today we told you about Malt-o-Meal cereal being recalled, and now comes word that Sam Adams is recalling beer because some bottles might have glass fragments in them. Only 12 oz bottles of Sam Adams beer in brown bottles are being recalled. The bottles are from a third party that supplies bottles to Sam Adams, and the glass was discovered during routine inspection at its Cincinnati plant. The bad bottles have an "N35" and then an "OI" stamped near the bottom (see pic).

This is one of my nightmares about drinks and food that come in glass bottles, whether it's beer or pasta sauce or mustard or whatever. I'm really surprised that something like this doesn't happen more often.

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Filed Under: Business, Health & Medical, Drink Recipes
Tags: beer, beer recall, boston beer co., sam adams, sam adams beer

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4-09-2008 @3:55PM jkdhl said... Sam Adams is better in draft anyway
And it cant be Bushes fault he never had anything to do with anything good like Sam Adams
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4-09-2008 @1:35PM Tim said... .
If I drink enough of Sam Adam's beer, I can't recall much at all.

:)
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4-09-2008 @1:46PM Nick said... Sammy Adams tastes like ass anyway!!!
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4-09-2008 @1:47PM Rob2tall said... Its an Annehauser Bush product...and who is related to that company by marriage??
Why its John McCain...poor fella..his wife is in the AB family.
Whats a little crushed glass going to hurt?? Kinda of like an old VietCong torture trick-they put bamboo shavings in your food and crushed glass in the water or goats milk to teach us a lesson in Vietnam...Maybe AB has a terrorist working on the bottling line? Put a little ground glass in a few bottles and pretty soon AB has lost millions in a recall..and then the word comes out that john McCains wife is part of the companies family...Hmm??
But in all seriousness-these things happen during bottling and transit-after all its glass..fragile stuff.
Of course if you do not drink beer your safer yet!
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4-09-2008 @2:01PM Rob2tall said...
Comment #48....yikes Nick! Are you drinking too much beer to know the rim of the bottle from another variety of rim?
Nick said...
Sammy Adams tastes like ass anyway!!!

Nick! You been licking that and know for sure that Sammy Adams-A fine beer tastes like that part of another persons anatomy?? Do you lick first-then taste the beer or have the beer first then lick that part???
Either way..you have been drinking too much if you can tell they taste the same! LOL!
What a moronic thing to say!
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4-09-2008 @1:56PM perfectgame88 said... All of you people that think Sam Adams is nasty apparently don't have taste buds...actually you all probably drink keystone don't you...
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4-09-2008 @2:30PM whitey said... MADE IN CHINA !
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4-09-2008 @3:20PM IDMTNMAN said... To they who said that Sam Adams tastes like PISS, my question is, "What Kind of Piss?". My favorite is Cougar Piss, used to wash down the freshly eaten Raw Heart, after a kill using only my hunting knife. This CP can also be used to sterilize the inevitable, significant wounds to one's body, received in affecting the kill.
I have noticed, however, that some non-pasteurized beers, when left in a warm, lighted environment (such as a dorm-room window sill) for a significant period of time, do indeed take on a rather pissy flavour due to bacterial growth. It has been my experience, though, that this taste more closely resembles the flavour of Bushy-Tailed Wood Rat spew, so prevalent in my area. Thanks for your observation. Yours, Sincerely, Idaho Mountain Man
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4-09-2008 @2:24PM Lucy lou said... ALL BEER TASTES LIKE PISS TO ME!!!! IT'S NASTY!!!!

I agree with the one who said filter it if you must drink it!! Can't be too hard....
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4-09-2008 @2:27PM ricardo said... hey john fc taylor, your idea is an old but good one. Myself instead of a t=shirt I prefer to use my girlfriends panties after a week long camping trip with no change of cloths! It adds a beautiful flavor not to mention the fantastic aroma, pure heaven, try it sometime, but with your girlfriends bloomers.
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4-09-2008 @2:31PM mike said... lol bush to blame yes, everything is everyone elses fault when you are a liberal. im not sure, but if you spell union worker backwards it spells victim
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4-09-2008 @2:35PM mike said... fench owned miller lite for the limp wristed
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4-09-2008 @2:37PM mike said... i drink sam and love it. its not for the limp wristed man
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4-09-2008 @3:21PM Karen Schaffer said... Do you suppose these faulty bottles might have been manufactured in China?
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4-09-2008 @3:25PM Dug said... Shards of glass can only help get the alcohol into my bloodstream. I fail to see the problem here.
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4-09-2008 @4:30PM mike said... sam with glass is better than most beers
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4-09-2008 @4:30PM blackwinmag said... just commenting on comment #64 Sam Adams is from the Boston Beer Company, they are not one of the more than 100 brands that is owned by Anheuser-Busch. And why in the heck would you try to bring nasty politics into such a great thing as beer, c'mon people its yummy beer, its never hurt nobody!!!
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