A slap in the gut ...

[OTMPut]

I thought it would end with horse meat.

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world’s biggest brewer, was sued over claims it overstated the alcohol content in Budweiser beer.


AB InBev routinely adds extra water to its finished products to produce malt beverages with significantly less alcohol content than displayed on its labels, consumers Thomas and Gerald Greenberg said in a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Philadelphia. The company’s overstatement of the alcohol content violates Pennsylvania’s consumer protection statutes, according to the complaint.

“Consumers receive watered down beer containing less alcohol than is stated,” the Greenbergs said in the filing.


The complaint accuses Leuven, Belgium-based AB InBev of mislabeling the alcohol content in Budweiser, Bud Ice, Bud Light Platinum, Michelob, King Cobra, Busch Ice, Black Crown, Bud Light Lime, Hurricane High Gravity Lager and Michelob Ultra.


No one was immediately available to comment on the lawsuit, according to someone who answered the company’s media relations line.


The Greenbergs are seeking to represent all consumers in the state of Pennsylvania in their bid for damages exceeding $5 million and a court order requiring the company to alter its advertising campaign.


The men said they routinely purchased as many as four cases of Budweiser per month during the past four years. The labels on the beer claim the alcohol content was 5 percent by volume, according to the lawsuit.

[ollinger]

A slap in the gut....but a smaller gut.

[max]

Thank God someone is monitoring this!

Caveat emptor.

[maverick66]

someone gave me a budlight on christmas and if it hadnt been for the label I would have thought it was bottled water.

[The Meat]

It all makes sense now, 9 watered down beers and still not drunk...

[LuckyR]

If you are drinking AB products, you really don't like beer, you're drinking for a different reason, so this info could really be important.

[slowfox]

First Subway's footlongs not measuring up, now beer. Next, Raisin Bran will be scrutinized for not having 2 scoops of raisins in every box. Wait, did they do that challenge already...?

[stringertom]

Mickey D's has to print a disclaimer in all their ads for the 1/4-pounder with cheese...weight is prior to cooking.

[max]

I"m taking a yard stick with me the next time I go to Subway.

[ollinger]

s-tom
stated weights for meat at a restaurant are always pre-cooking. When I worked at McD as a kid somebody would occasionally bring back a burger because the meat patty was missing. We always would ask if they had looked under the pickle.