Reply To: This Beer Predicament

It’s only a safek if you don’t know where the store gets its beer, and I believe you could technically inquire (as impractical as that may be).

Midwest: The point is not that we’re complaining about having to go without beer. The reason we’re “excited” about it is that A) not enough people seem to be aware of this and many frum yidden might be consuming treif, B) it sounds like in previous years it was super assur without even a bad mechira to rely on bedieved; so, what does that mean if you drank beer last year before this came out? What if you cooked with beer?

If there were people who knew about this for years, why weren’t they releasing announcements? Having something that’s for sure assur isn’t worth mentioning, but once some people controversially claim it’s mutar it suddenly gets ink?