Authorities have found most of the nearly 80,000 bottles of beer that were stolen from an Atlanta brewery last week, but the company says every last drop will have to be thrown away.
SweetWater Brewing Co. spokeswoman Tucker Berta Sarkisian said in a news release that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Southeastern Transportation Security Council on Wednesday returned 30 of the 40 pallets of beer that had been stolen, minus a few cases.
The other 10 pallets had already been recovered. It’s unclear where the stolen beer was found and no arrests have been made.
Sarkisian says two trailers carrying 3,272 cases of SweetWater’s Summer Variety Pack were stolen June 21. The trailers were later found empty.
Because of quality concerns, Sarkisian says the beer, worth about $90,000, will be taken to a recycling facility.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Its a little on the difficult side hiding pallets full of beer….should have left them somewhere with a “free beer” sign affixed to it.
This isn’t the whole story. They thought they’d be able to sell it–but it was such a distinctive brew, people’d notice if somebody had a few extra pallets. And one of the trailers was full of “variety” packs that hadn’t yet been “varietized.”
Still, I think it’s over-reacting to destroy it all just because it was out of controlled conditions for a few days.
Too bad with the 4th here this weekend they can send them to me and WE can dump them one at a time to be sure they are disposed of properly!!!!
I THINK IT WAS A BIG BULL SHIT STORY!!!!!! WHERE WERE THE ROBBER?
It`s a shame, that`s some really good brew, too.