Sweetwater Brewery Recovers Most of its Stolen Beer

Atlanta, GA -- Sweetwater Brewing said on Wednesday that most of the 78,528 bottles of beer that were stolen from the Midtown brewer have been recovered.

But every single bottle will have to be destroyed, because the company doesn't know what happened to the more than 3,000 crates after it left the brewery's dock.

Forty pallets of beer were stolen last week, according to the AJC, and had a retail value of about $90,000. Ten pallets were recovered the same day of the theft, and most of the remaining 30 were found on Wednesday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Southeastern Transportation Security Council.

No one has been arrested in the theft. The beer is being to sent to a landfill, biofuel and waste recycling facility in Cordele, in southwest Georgia.