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Sam Adams beer has a Star K. As far as I know, it’s entirely unnecessary for them to have it (unless there are some people who hold differently). I think it is as DaasYochid says, a marketing tool. The question is a serious one in the sense that I’m not just trolling. However, it’s not a serious question to be put into practice (I already have my way of dealing with it); if it were, this thread would consist of 50 thousand posters saying “Ask your LOR!!!”.

DY: Wow I did not know that about the pork rinds story. My initial assumption on the matter, (which is perhaps still partially correct) was that there are probably lists of items from unreliable hechshers that are problem items, and others that are technically not. But, to keep people from accidentally transgressing, the practice is to just avoid all items from such hechshers. Although, it seems like most of us here agree that that doesn’t include items that wouldn’t even need supervision.