Statement provided by John Johnson, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Silver Eagle Distributors:
"Silver Eagle Distributors provides the highest level of service to ensure consumers can enjoy great tasting beer. Draught line cleaning is a key part to providing great tasting beer and is a service Silver Eagle provides to our retail customers on a regularly scheduled basis.
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"Draught lines for beer distributed by Silver Eagle are cleaned every 14 days, a standard practice in the beer industry. Line cleaning involves a thorough multi-step process that is provided by a team of trained employees dedicated to line cleaning.
"Silver Eagle is committed to protecting the integrity and flavor of the beer in all aspects of our business, to include refrigerated trucks for keg delivery, controlled environment warehouses and strict product rotation policies to ensure freshness.
"In order to adequately respond to these findings, we offered to review the methodology and the lab reports but have not received full information.
"Beer has unique properties, and accurately measuring its contents requires specific controls, equipment and expertise. A large number of variables can affect testing results including management of the sample, equipment used and how it's calibrated, and the testing method."