Lost Abbey Responds To Reports of Infected 2012 Deliverance & Angels Share

This is a topic that’s been batted around again and again, however with a recent RB thread, it looks like the topic has been re-awakened.  With multiple reports of infected bottles of Lost Abbey Deliverance 2012 and Angel’s Share 2012…Lost Abbey’s Director of Production & Quality, Gwen Conley did just reply earlier  today so I thought you’d want to read her response.

Hello Everyone – Apparently you all have infected 2012 Bourbon Angel’s Share and 2012 Deliverance. I can tell you that every single one of these barrels was sampled and had micro testing on them. If a barrel comes back with a positive for either wild yeast or bacteria it is dumped down the drain. Once the barrels are filtered into the Beer Brite Tank, micro testing is done again to confirm there is no contamination of wild yeast or bacteria. After the beer is packaged, micro testing is done on a bottle from the begin, middle, and end of the run. These beers are not packaged with the same equipment as any of our sour beers, to also eliminate the possibility of contamination. I have pulled bottles from our supply and we all gladly did a sensory check this morning and neither the Angel’s Share or the Deliverance tastes infected. I will redo all of the micro testing to ensure that they are not infected. If you feel that you have an infected bottle that is unopened I do want to hear from you.
Gwen Conley
Director of Production and Quality
Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey.