Beer recall....(now it's going TOO FAR!!)

Thank you for visiting our Web site, which we have created to help us communicate about the current voluntary recall affecting some of our bottled products.

During a routine bottle inspection at one of our breweries, we detected possible defects in a small percentage of bottles resulting in the random presence of bits of glass, most the size of grains of sand, but some small slivers in some bottles as well. Based on this sample, we quickly began testing bottles of Samuel Adams at all of our breweries and identified that the problem appeared to be isolated to a single glass plant of the five that supply us.

We assembled a panel of food safety, medical and packaging experts including a medical doctor who have thoroughly evaluated the samples. People who bite or swallow a fragment could possibly be injured. While the possibility of injury to an individual consumer is very low and the Company has had no reports of any injury, we do know that the risk is not zero, so we are voluntarily recalling all products in bottles from this specific glass plant that we believe could possibly be affected. While we believe that the number of bottles that actually contain glass is significantly less than 1% of the bottles we are recalling, we are taking this measure to protect the safety of our drinkers.

Bottles made in other glass plants that supply us have not shown defects. The potentially affected bottles are easily identified by a raised letter and number visible on the bottom edge of the bottle. Affected bottles are embossed with the digits "N35" followed by the letters "OI". Please see the photo below. Bottles with this coding should not be drunk.

Because of our bottle coding systems, consumers can check their bottles to see if the product they purchased is part of the recall. If they are, we provide additional information here on what you should do next.

We will be using this Web site moving forward to communicate with you. Quality and assuring the safety of our drinkers is paramount to us. Thank you for your understanding and continued loyalty to Samuel Adams.

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