I've had two occasions recently where I ordered a name brand beer in a restaurant and was brought an open bottle with the correct label but with a different beer inside. Tonight I ordered a Sam Adams Boston Lager - an amber beer with distinctive hops - and was brought a nice brownish beer with minimal hops, no personality.
Is this sort of thing happening to anyone else?
Ham
I hope you had your aluminum foil hat on when you realized this- if they were able to read your thoughts, who knows what they would have done to you or your food.
I can't imagine the difficulty of filling used, empty bottles of beer [from the tap or another bottle? Either way, it would have to be out of sight of the public] would be worth the trouble, the cost in labor, the cost of the other beer or the possible fines involved.
I'd chalk it up to old beer (hops fade) and the color difference to the lighting and/or the glass- altho', an really old bottle of beer will be cloudy/more opaque and will make the beer looking darker.
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