InBev Sued For Overstating Budweiser Alcohol Content
Maker's Mark recent foray into "diluting" reality by keeping prices flat while reducing the alcohol content - a painful reminder that stealth inflation comes in the most unexpected of shapes - came and went, with the outcry limited to a select group of Bourbon lovers. However, when the realization hits that every other alcohol producer may have been engaging in the same less than ethical behavior, including America's precious Budweiser, we expect the response to be faster and furiouser. We also expect the answer to the question of how it is that food inflation is not far greater, will be made even clearer. It will, however, certainly bring new meaning to the phrase the beer glass is half full. Of course, since the lawsuit was filed by two men who "routinely purchased as many as four cases of Bud per month for the past four years" one can see why it may not be taken very seriously.
From Bloomberg:
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.
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Look like Joe Sixpack has become Joe Fivepack. This won't end well.
There are certain lines you simply don't cross. And one of them sure as fuck is beer.
The brands listed are crap beer anyway.
But it is nice to see Natty Ice Light is for real.
I guess it's time for a little PBR&R
Oh heavens ~ Next thing u know they'll tell us that some of the Clydesdales ended up in the beer...
I don't always drink beer. But when I do, it's a Steel Reserve. So do millions of other homeless bums.
Budweiser. The Viscount of Beers!
Steel Reserve? I fucked a Mexican without a condom after four 22's of that shit. I also publicly masturbated on a golf course and then blew my load on a maple tree....treesteelality! That shit has ALL alcohol, as advertised.
Dick, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy. If the two of us together, forget it.
Bill Murray - Stripes
Anyone know the current price of a pre-diluted bottle of Maker's Mark?
I'm pretty sure those will become highly sought after items.
they have since recanted their heresy and come back to the fold.
Mexican female I hope doc.
I was afraid to ask.
It's funny that people still drink Budweiser.
If you import Budvar from Czech, you can drink Budweiser and drink a reasonable beer at the same time.
Actually, you can safely buy Budweiser and still get that same reasonable beer - at least if you're in Portugal: https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=925867&Site=COE ...or elsewhere in Europe, for that matter: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2010-07-29/industries/30811010_1_budweis...
Just make sure you get the right one: in some countries they both share the same name...
+50
Well considering Budwiser and all of it's products taste like horses ass...
What's the difference between American beer and making love in a boat?
None, it's both fucking close to water...
basic consumer fraud. class action lawyers will have a field day.
No they won't. InBev will be congratulated on holding a known commodity like alcoholic dish water (bud and it's variations) in check by lowering the their costs. I doubt consumer fraud extends to making someone less drunk by something that should be sold as near beer anyways...well, the term beer is also pretty stretched on Bud. Alcool with beer flavor is a better term.
O'Dools would have been sent to the cleaners years ago otherwise.
So is this more sneaky inflation?
BTW I don't see anymore Budweiser = USA commericals anymore. Wonder why? Heh, heh.
No, this is the way politics works now.
Budwiser will kick over a couple of bucks to their stooges in the house reps in the state the case was petitioned. Some type of draft will be written and handed over to the presiding judge on the court circuit that states to drop the case.
It'll be a short case.
If anyone has noticed Kangaroo courts rule the USA now. Why would this be any different? There's been another of tiny news is the arrival of Walmart selling pirated iPads. Believe me, Ralph Nader in this environment doesn't exist anymore.
Nothing is not allowed to be wrong, broken or or false. That's the world now...maybe not Italy though, that will be a lot of fun to watch (can't wait for their first budget period.)
Clyde's Ale?
+49.
Let's remember that the horse DNA they trace does not necessarily have to be meat, ya know.
piss on you
No, the beer.
Well, they have to do something with Clydesdale piss!
Comment of the day!
They figured out how to ferment horses!
Take all the other scandals, crimes, massive theft of taxpayer dollars, the pillaging of the middle class, outright decimation of title laws relating to real estate- including one's home, decimation of basic constitutional RIGHTS, the emergence of a nepotistic KronyKomrade Oligarchy, etc. etc. etc., and forget about all of that...
...for the 2nd American Revolution will we lit by:
1) Ever increasing costs to fill up the F250, Escalade or "Lordy leased me a Mercedeeeees Benz," and
2) Dilution of alcohol content in ditch digger swill.
3) ( really #1) the attempted confiscation of firearms.
#4) Discovery of equinus dollar menuis in their McMrEd grilled onion cheddar burger.
(Naw, that won't matter since it will taste the same)
Only if soy costs more than horse.
But what of ass?
I'm white trash, and I'm in trouble!
Bud is a lousy beer.
They are screwing with the God given right of all of us Americans to cry in our beer and pee on our shoes.
"Of course, since the lawsuit was filed by two men who "routinely purchased as many as four cases of Bud per month for the past four years" one can see why it may not be taken very seriously."
4 X 24 = 96 cans. Between two people plus occasional guests, that is about one beer per day, i.e. one serving, which is recognized as not only being safe, but also has health benefits. Why is Zerohedge disparaging people for having one serving of alcohol per day?
Tyler is saying that the damages will be so small that the court will throw the case out. Trust me, the Tylers have never had any problems with Joe making use of his six pack.
It is a class action suit, started by these two plaintiffs, that anyone affected can try to join. It says right in the filing papers that it is for an amount over $5 million in damages.
"They may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR BEER!!!"
so...they try and take our pop, guns, internet, porn, beef, milk, gardens, homes, minds....by flying sweet fuck now they take alcohol out of our bottled carbonated syrup... you fascist bastards
And hopefully the other one is guns.
Did I miss something They claim its 5% but dont say what the actual percentage in the purchased beer was? How much did they get jip'd out of?
Waaazzuuuuuuup?
Stealth inflation.
If indeed the alcohol content is less as charged, it is amazing that InBev didn't put the correct percentage on their labeling. They pay tax on the alcohol content. When you're producing 100 million barrels/year, small differences like this add up big in a hurry.
...as long as gain > cost (tax), they're skimming those hundred of millions of barrels...
Thomas and Gerald Greenberg are 'Joe Sixpacks'? And they drink 4 cases of Bud a month?
Sure they do.... They may buy 4 cases a month - but they ain't drinking it
Couple of Greenbergs and their friendly lawyer,Senoff ...out there fighting for the the comon man...sure I buy it....and I am sure they are minding their drinking on the shabbat...