(Placentia, CA) - You don't often hear about a brewer actually scratching a beer bottle release. But The Bruery not only did that, but they apparently poured the subpar beer "down the drain". According to their blog, they did exactly that with their Belgian Strong Pale Ale called Iniquitous. More details below...

From The Bruery blog:

Down the drain

The beer in that glass of Iniquitous looks pretty great.  Unfortunately that was poured from a keg, not a bottle.

We planned on releasing Iniquitous as our Provisions Series beer for the month of June. As can happen with bottle conditioned ales, it wasn't quite carbonated enough for our liking so we pushed it to July.  Then August.  Then September.

We had hope that this beer would magically turn a corner and go from the not-so-good bottled version to the great tasting draft version (that is force carbonated).  We tried a few tricks that brewers have to help the yeast get to work and eat up the extra sugars in the bottle.  We agitated the bottles, flipped the cases to get the yeast back into suspension, wrapped the pallets in black and put them out in the hot Orange County heat.  We honestly did anything we could think of to make this beer live up to it's potential but maintain it's integrity.