April 6, 1933. Midnight was approaching. A crowd of perhaps 25,000 milled around the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Pestalozzi Street. Inside the lobby of the Bevo packaging plant, August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., grandson of the brewery’s patriarch, stepped up to a KMOX microphone. “April the seventh is here, and it is a real occasion for …
You have to appreciate a brand that will make public announcements before an actual customer incident is found. In this case, quality control tests caught some chards in bottles of Sam Adams and they are recalling some beer. I can’t imagine that this bottle supplier only supplies bottles to Sam Adams… whom else is on …