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Stores selling WAY expired beer. - a rant (sort of long)
Posted on 5/29/12 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 5/29/12 at 4:58 pm
So I went up the liquor store up the road for some beer. I'd never bought beer there, but I knew they had a nice selection because I checked it out when I bought some Bourbon there one time. I also happened to notice that the Dale's Pale cans were VERY faded that time.
So I went up there and just made sure to check the date on whatever it was I decided to get. The SAME Dale's Pale cans are still there...not good. So I decided on some Hazed and Infused by Boulder. Check the best by date....2/08/12! Holy frick! It was the first one in the cooler, too, with several sixers behind it. I can only imagine how old they were.
I decide to walk next door to Publix and get something. As I'm leaving, the clerk asks me if he can help me find anything. I said no, but there's some really expired beer back there. He told me beer doesn't have a best by date, just a born on date, so I go get it for him and show him. He mumbles something about it being because it's an import, at which time I tell him it's not an import and thanked him for his time.
This is not a shitty liquor store, either, but it is a mom and pop kinda place.
So I went up there and just made sure to check the date on whatever it was I decided to get. The SAME Dale's Pale cans are still there...not good. So I decided on some Hazed and Infused by Boulder. Check the best by date....2/08/12! Holy frick! It was the first one in the cooler, too, with several sixers behind it. I can only imagine how old they were.
I decide to walk next door to Publix and get something. As I'm leaving, the clerk asks me if he can help me find anything. I said no, but there's some really expired beer back there. He told me beer doesn't have a best by date, just a born on date, so I go get it for him and show him. He mumbles something about it being because it's an import, at which time I tell him it's not an import and thanked him for his time.
This is not a shitty liquor store, either, but it is a mom and pop kinda place.
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Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:11 pm to busey
This is why i think this at most stores i frequent.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:15 pm to barry
I actually emailed Boulder to tell them. I'm sure they don't take kindly to that sort of thing.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:17 pm to busey
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I actually emailed Boulder to tell them. I'm sure they don't take kindly to that sort of thing
Thats why a lot of business will have a rep go to stores because its filled with idiots. They go and make sure there product is out, in the right place, and not expired.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:21 pm to barry
I had a similar problem before. I'd had a Blue Moon Winter Abbey Ale once and it was awesome. My gf gets me a mix and match 6 pack from somewhere (I'm guessing World Market or Whole Foods) for my 21st birthday including a Blue Moon Winter and I tried it and it was nasty. I checked the date and I was right, it was expired. In fact, several of the beers in there tasted expired. I'll be more careful and check the dates before I buy.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:21 pm to busey
It is probably distributed by a miller/coors/bud rep. I know they get fined if their supervisors find out of code beer.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:27 pm to kingbob
I'm surprised beer from WF would be expired. It seems they move good beer pretty well in most locations.
Funny, though. Earlier this week I bought some Terrapin Rye from a gas station down the road and the best by date was that week (they don't have dates, just weeks). I just used that as my reasoning for having to drink it all that night.
Funny, though. Earlier this week I bought some Terrapin Rye from a gas station down the road and the best by date was that week (they don't have dates, just weeks). I just used that as my reasoning for having to drink it all that night.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:27 pm to sloopy
There is a Bud distributor right down the road, so that's probably it.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 5:29 pm to barry
yep, they are definitely supposed to rotate it
Posted on 5/29/12 at 6:12 pm to busey
Thats pretty shitty, but the ones in the back were probably newer.. Thats how stores stock things usually
Posted on 5/29/12 at 6:24 pm to busey
I had a really strange expired beer story recently. Bought a local beer in a six pack from Walmart and took it out to a ball game.
Noticed when I took out the first bottle that it looked kind of sketchy. I could hardly drink any of the first beer. My buddy finished his, but said it tasted like shite too.
I threw the rest away, but kept an empty bottle and the card board packaging even though I couldn't find a sell by or born on date right away. Ended up emailing the brewery to tell them something was wrong. They told me where to look for the sell by date and the damn bottle was 2.5 years old.
Someone had used new packaging, but had cut and re-taped it after shoving 6 old beers into it.
The company sent me a new 6 pack the next day and promised to look into it. My guess is some jackass at Walmart did it.
Noticed when I took out the first bottle that it looked kind of sketchy. I could hardly drink any of the first beer. My buddy finished his, but said it tasted like shite too.
I threw the rest away, but kept an empty bottle and the card board packaging even though I couldn't find a sell by or born on date right away. Ended up emailing the brewery to tell them something was wrong. They told me where to look for the sell by date and the damn bottle was 2.5 years old.
Someone had used new packaging, but had cut and re-taped it after shoving 6 old beers into it.
The company sent me a new 6 pack the next day and promised to look into it. My guess is some jackass at Walmart did it.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 6:51 pm to notiger1997
A gas station near my house still has 2 six packs of Saint Arnold Christmas Ale for sale
Posted on 5/29/12 at 7:00 pm to busey
Is this the liquor store in the same strip as the publix? If so, they suck.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 7:01 pm to greenwave
quote:meh, not that old.
A gas station near my house still has 2 six packs of Saint Arnold Christmas Ale for sale
Posted on 5/29/12 at 7:05 pm to Golfer
Yep
Posted on 5/29/12 at 9:53 pm to busey
Just do you know, expired beer is the responsibility of wholesaler and not the store. Most stores don't even stick their own beer. Most attention is paid to the main staple of the distributor and not much to the off brands. Example AB InBev products at any bud house, miller products at any miller house and Coors products at any Coors house. If its distributed by a liquor company, you're SOL. They don't even stick their own beer. It is not the responsibility of stores to make sure their product is within code, just like its not their responsibility for coke or frito lay. Lots of big stores don't even care if theirs beer on the shelves. At least at Walmart, their opinion is if you want us to sell it, make sure it's stocked.
Posted on 5/29/12 at 10:33 pm to Dac311
thats the truth. beer and coke and all that shite is sold on consignment. the store just acts as the middle man. its the distributors job to keep it fresh and stocked properly
Posted on 5/30/12 at 8:21 am to snake23
Well, beer isn't sold on consignment. It can't be sold that way by law. It can be credited/swapped for beer that isn't expired. But it can't be sold and billed later. At least in Louisiana.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 9:27 am to busey
Watch out for the "build your own sixpack" singles. They tend to be full of expired/almost expired beer.
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