80,000 bottles of beer stolen

Almost 80,000 bottles of Atlanta-brewed beer were stolen in a hops heist early Tuesday moing at the SweetWater Brewing Company in Atlanta.

Company officials said that more than 3000 cases of the beer had been loaded into two trailers ready to be moved out in the moing when two thieves pulled up hooked up the trailers and swiped the beer.

Several hours later the trailers were found empty at separate locations. A while after that, about one quarter of the beer was found in Conley, just south of Atlanta. The search is on for the rest of the brew and the thieves that took it. The company has said that they will destroy the beer if it’s found because it has been handled or stored improperly.

”We’re going to destroy it because we’re not comfortable with it being sold under the name SweetWater, said representative Steve Farace.