Beer drinkers in the US have filed a $5m lawsuit1 accusing Anheuser-Busch of watering down its beer.
美国啤酒饮用者状告安海斯布希公司稀释了其生产的啤酒。
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The lawsuit claim the watering down began after Anheuser Busch\s 2008 merger with InBev
The
lawsuits3, 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
compliance4 with labelling laws".
"Our information comes from former employees at Anheuser-Busch, who have informed us that, as a matter of
corporate7 practice, all of their products mentioned [in the lawsuit] are watered down," lead lawyer Josh
Boxer8 said.
The complaint claimed that "Anheuser-Busch employs some of most sophisticated process control technology in the world to
precisely9 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".
The lawsuit
alleged10 that the practice began after the American Anheuser-Busch
merged11 with the Belgian-Brazilian InBev in 2008, to form the world's largest alcohol producer.
"Following the merger, [Anheuser-Busch] vigorously accelerated the
deceptive12 practices, sacrificing the quality products once produced by Anheuser-Busch in order to reduce costs," the lawsuit said.
Peter Kraemer,
vice13 president of
brewing14 and supply at Anheuser-Busch said in a statement, "We proudly adhere to the highest standards in brewing our beer."
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