It’s back! Yes, we got our fermenter back. Seriously shook!! Got a message from a friend last night that it was spotted for sale in El Cajon at Empire Thrift. This morning I headed out expecting to be met with some pawn shop attitude, but the owner of Empire saw me walk in and was like “are you here about the tank?” Once he heard it was stolen (apparently the word made it to him yesterday via someone who saw our post) and he wanted it out of his shop and actually tried to contact us to give it back. He paid that thief $200 and said he was fine with losing the money because he felt bad for us losing such an expensive piece of equipment during such sucky times. So, we loaded it in the van and then I pretty much forced him to take $200 cash. He was reluctant, but I thanked him for helping out a fellow small business and let him know I was so happy it was him who had it because not everyone would be so cool. I was honestly shocked how awesome he was about it. The truly crazy thing we learned about this is that those tanks don’t have any sort of serial number or anything on them to identify them. So, the police really weren’t much help. They knew who stole it, they knew where the guy was/is “living”, but said that wasn’t enough. Crazy. Hopefully now that they have pics of him selling it they’ll issue an arrest warrant and we don’t have to see him in the neighborhood anymore. Thanks to everyone who sent us kind words and helpful tips. Without you we wouldn’t have gotten it back. Much love! Watch for multiple @blahdraftbeer releases coming soon! #sdbeer #indiebeer #blahbeer #blahdraftbeer
