Reply To: This Beer Predicament

Like in every other post he’s made, he’s refusing to do the research so that he can keep insisting that it’s only a safek whether or not the beer came from a Jew.

Back to the original point:
I think now that what happened was the Jewish 5 Towns Times posted the good article about this situation that happened to be by Yair Hoffman. Because Rabbi Hoffman is the near-exclusive author of all halachah articles for YWN, they had nobody to whom to go to write this piece (since he already wrote one for a competitor). YWN had to end up settling for a recorded shiur which will inherently get fewer clicks and be taken less seriously.

As for why we didn’t hear anything of this in previous years, I have no theories for that. I do think that in coming years, they’ll do a better job of announcing what to do. Perhaps we’ll be able to go by the expiration dates on the beer or some such thing to avoid the chometz beer.