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I was just wondering how many of you have come across an infection in commercial beers?

The other day I opened a bottle of Mountain Goat Hightail, which froathed up all over the place. Initially thought some dickhead may have shaken it up. But then I tasted it and was sour. Clearly infected.

Haven't had any infected, but I had some Grand Ridge Brewery beers that were flat as a tack

Tipsy wrote:Haven't had any infected, but I had some Grand Ridge Brewery beers that were flat as a tack

Same here.

When I worked in a pub there was always the odd customer who'd hand back a stubbie (real commercial stuff like westend) and tell me it was off! Stuff's pastuerised isn't it? Poor guys!

not in comercial beer, but I have in comerical wine :p

If any full scale commercial brewery let a batch of infected beer enter the marketplace, there would be hell to pay from the national health watchdog and the media.

This was just one bottle of beer. Thinking the bottle may not have been sanitised properly.

NTRabbit wrote:If any full scale commercial brewery let a batch of infected beer enter the marketplace, there would be hell to pay from the national health watchdog and the media.

You're right, however this doesn't stop the ocasional poorly sterilised (big breweries can sterilise) bottle getting through. If you were sterilising 100s or 1000s of bottles a day you'd have the odd bad one as well.

I had a JS amber ale 6'er that was infected once. Tried 2 of them then gave them a call. quoted the barcode # and such and they organised a new 6 pack for me, no charge.
Very happy with that service. Microbreweries would inadvertantly put out the odd infected bottle or 2 as you can't really test the contents of every single bottle. Did you contact them about it?

Simular topic sort of

Me and my mates bought a 6 pack of Crown lager one time. And there I was opening the bottles and handing them out and my mate goes

"Huh?? Did you drink half my beer??"

I said "I didn't touch it - what kind of raving alcoholic do u take me for?"

Then we had a look and all the beers in the 6 pack were only half full! We later called the brewery and they said ok and mailed us a voucher for a six pack - the only thing was it was for a store a good 1/2 hour away.

Ended up ringing again and getting a new voucher for a closer store

Interesting experience

Cheers

Da_damage,

But did you get both vouchers redeemed?

Cheers,
Greg

just the one

I got a nice little pack called something like "Beers of Europe, & free glass!" which I couldn't resist. Had a beer from Germany, one from Holland, one from Austria, Belgium, ect.

Anyway, the Belgium one (I think) was called 'Campus Premium' and had a gold label with not much information on it. I cracked it open, took a sip and thought, 'if this is what Uni students drink over there, there is no way I would study in that country.' It tasted pretty bad. My friend had bought the same pack and was sampling the Czech beer, and he commented on what a nice colour it had. I poured mine into a glass and was shocked to see these wierd floaties.... Not like ordinary sediment floaties, but more like stuff floating in stagnant water floaties. I poored it pretty well (though I did empty the entire bottle) but this stuff wasn't sitting at the bottom like sediment normally doesn, it was drifting around in a scary and disturbing manner. We checked the bottle that had come in my friends pack and it had the same stuff fluffing around the bottom few inches of the bottle.

I don't know if it had gone bad, or if it was just bad, but it was bad. Like Fosters Light bad, I felt no regret about tipping it down the sink.

I've never seen a beer that has gone bad so I'm not sure if that's what this was, but I didn't feel sick, thank god.

We put the other bottle in the fridge and left it for my friends housemate

I have had the bad experience of buying a case of tooheys new and it tasted sour. Maybe old stock or left in the sun on the back of a truck too long.Not all lost as I bought another case and kept that one for my free loading mates..
They dont care what they drink if its free.

I had a longneck of Tooheys Old back in the day that was "off".. Very rare though.

I had a VB a long time ago that i was sure was infected!
have since been told that they all taste like that

Havent had any I could say were infected but certainly had some that made me very crook. Amsterdam Mariner for 19 bucks a slab about 2 years ago.

When I opened one and tasted - aghhh flat and foul.

Looked at the best before and was about a year out of date!!

I don't think I've had an infected brew, but the other day I cracked a Cooper's Pale Ale to find it was watery and fairly flat. The yeast seemed to be very easily mixed up. And it just didn't taste right. It was almost as if it had been watered down. The rest in the slab were fine.

Strange stuff indeed.

Oliver

never an infected beer, but have had infected wine, tasted extremely foul

i bought a carton of tooheys red cans once and every single one of them was flat

we still got heaps pissed, haha