Is There Crying Over Spilt Beer?

Editor's Note: First posted at 1:33 p.m. Updated with additional photo.

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When the owners and employees came to work Wednesday at Jack’s Abby Brewing Company they found beer all over the floor.

A gasket failed on a full tank of their Jabby Brau, a year-round pilsner the company brews and sells.

The Framingham small brewery posted video on its Facebook page showing what they encountered when they arrived.

Co-owner Jack Hendler told WBZ-TV crews filled the tank on Wednesday with 1,500 gallons of beer, which equates to about 700 cases. The gasket gave out sometime overnight. The entire batch was lost.

“When we came in the morning, we came into a mess,” he told CBS Boston. “The good side of the whole mess is there was never a safety issue for anyone working. It was simply a waste of beer issue.”

Hendler says the beer was set to be bottled on Wednesday and shipped off to retailers. Instead, the bottling crew spent the day on clean-up duty.