Stolen beer to be thrown away
Friday, July 1, 2016
ATLANTA -- Authorities have found most of the nearly 80,000 bottles of beer that were stolen from an Atlanta brewery June 21, but the company says every last drop will have to be thrown away because of quality concerns. SweetWater Brewing Co. spokeswoman Tucker Berta Sarkisian said in a news release the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Southeastern Transportation Security Council on Wednesday returned 30 of the 40 pallets of beer that had been stolen, minus a few cases.
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