Posted on 02/26/2013 8:38:54 PM PST by hoagy62
Beer drinkers in the US have filed a $5m lawsuit accusing Anheuser-Busch of watering down its beer.
The lawsuits, filed in Pennsylvania, California and other states, claim consumers have been cheated out of the alcohol content stated on beer labels.
The suit involves 10 Anheuser-Busch beers including Budweiser and Michelob.
Anheuser-Busch InBev have called the claims "completely false", and said in a statement "our beers are in full compliance with labelling laws".
The lawsuits are based on information from former employees at breweries owned by the multinational.
"Our information comes from former employees at Anheuser-Busch, who have informed us that, as a matter of corporate practice, all of their products mentioned [in the lawsuit] are watered down," lead lawyer Josh Boxer said.
The complaint claimed that "Anheuser-Busch employs some of most sophisticated process control technology in the world to precisely monitor the alcohol content at the final stages of production, and then adds additional water to produce beers with significantly lower alcohol contents than is represented on the the labels".
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Then again....is a lawsuit really going to help change things?
If you watered down Budweiser, how the hell would anyone know?
If they think Budweiser is so bad, they should have tried the Hamm’s(tm) brand back when it was about. You can easily tell why the Hamm’s advertisements always referred to “From the land of Sparkling Water” in their jingle. Hamm’s literally is coloured water -and even blindfolded you can taste the difference.
If you watered down Budweiser, how the hell would anyone know?
A: You wouldn’t, if they called it Coors.
In reality, if I buy beer, it is from a micro-brewery like Burning River or Great Lakes or an import like Molson. I don’t drink enough beer to buy the watery Mega Brews like Budweiser and Miller.
Someone drank a couple of twelve packs and didn’t get drunk enough? Distillers water down whiskey too.
“There are so many REAL beers out there...
guess its for the ‘on-one-helluva-budget’ beer drinkers.”
Spoken like a beer snob. We’re in a recession and don’t judge people on what they eat or drink. If it tastes great for other people so be it. My attitude is if you get buzzed, then it’s alright. Then again, it reminds me of my time in Singapore, Japan and Manila and the kids thought drinking Bud was cool and ‘elite” for them. Of course, I just smiled (snicker)
It’s kind of why I don’t drink it in the first place.
If you thought it was watered down why would you keep buying it and drinking it?!?!
Isn’t there a little thermometer like thing-e that tells you specific gravity and you can use that to determine alcohol content or something?
It’s Bud, what do they expect?
I seem to remember that jingle going: ‘From the land of sky blue waters’. I might be wrong about that tho, My old mellon is about gone! Anyone else remember it?
I think the highest ABV I've had probably was a Chimay while on a ski vacation in Switzerland.
Have you tried Griesedieck Beer? It’s not as bad as it tastes...if you’re really, really thirsty.
I stopped drinking Crudweiser the minute I could afford anything else (Lost Coast Brewery/Lagunitas etc). But never looked at them again when I emailed them during the recall of Gray Davis and asked why they gave $50k to save a guy that was running the state into the ground. PR chick told me it was their right to do so and that maybe I should find another choice in beverages. I sure did.
Hmmm. You could be right. Maybe it was the way we would mis-sing it at times that I am remembering instead. Granted, it was quite a few years back...
It’s called High Gravity Brewing. They have been doing it for ages.
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/High_Gravity_Brewing
I'll even throw in PBR, Schaeffer, and the reformulated Schiltz.
I dunno. Having been forced to drink nothing but Guinness at one time I have some difficulty thinking much could be worse at this point.
Ever tried “Lucky Lager”(tm)? Had an aftertaste like the green slime on the side of rivers smelled like. Didn’t taste all that well either.
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