Cigar City addresses Rum Barrel-aged Big Sound issues
This was posted on December 1st but better late than never…
This was absolutely not an attempt to sell a beer we didn’t think was good. We liked the beer we sold. I have been sending it to personal friends as recently as last week. I want people to be impressed with what we make. Not pissed. I didn’t purposely release a dud. It’s much harder to deal with the repercussions of selling a beer that isn’t perfect than it is to just not sell that beer. Having people feel duped doesn’t gain us anything; it only hurts. In fact if you want to be cynical you could assume that if I knew the beer had (or would have) gone tart I missed a golden opportunity to sell an intentionally tart beer. We didn’t “know” there was an issue before we released the beer. That is the truth.
via Cigar City’s Blog.
Breweries: Cigar City Brewing
I contacted joey directly about this a little while ago and he was more than generous offering to replace the bottles i had with either more beer or a refund. I don’t know many if any other breweries that would do this. For the record, i chose to take neither, because i believe in the quality of both joey’s beer and the amount of passion he has in the quality of his product