False Alarm!
Today everything is different. After going around to every retail account, I can’t find this beer June 11th beer anywhere. What I did find was some March beer at one of the stores that we got a complaint from. It was probably the culprit, we’ve had problems with March beer before, but I though it was all long gone by now. All the beer we brought back at the brewery is ok, and after re-checking my shelf life samples, they are ok too!
I feel stupid! I think my tastes buds were off yesterday, and I was suspicious of that bad filtration and putting out slightly cloudy beer in the first place. However, Chris and I have now come to the conclusion that I was wrong, and it was old beer on the shelf that was the culprit!
And oh, there was some old beer on the shelf’s in Iowa City! Hivee First Avenue, where our beer is on the warm shelf in the middle store, had January beer. That is six months old! Please help me convince these people that we deserve a cold slot, or maybe a top slot on the warm shelf.
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