Beer imports brewed in US = money for you?

Did you know Beck's beer is brewed in St. Louis, Fosters brewed in Fort Worth or Red Stripe brewed in Latrobe PA?

A group of lawyers won a preliminary approval for a class action lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch InBev NV the makers of Becks because they gave consumers a false impression about where the beer was made, in violation of state consumer protection laws. Now customers could get a refund of $50 with receipts, not likely, but they can also get a refund of $12 without receipts. A final hearing is set for October, so sometime after that look for refund forms. These lawyers are also looking some of the other beers to see if they have a payday ($3.5m for Becks), whoops I meant case.

Link to the story

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trouble-brews-for-imported-beers-madein-america-1435188835

Kind of silly, a person can just look for the "Made In...." on the package.

Quote: AZDuffman

Kind of silly, a person can just look for the "Made In...." on the package.

It's funny how at a restaurant or bar, they'll have the "Imports" list for beers and like you said, when you check the bottle, it says "Brewed in St. Louis, MO". You get charged the price of an import, when its actually a domestic.

I think they will argue that the recipe was imported.

Pity the poor consumer who discovers that his budweiser is not delivered by gorgeous girls or by clydesdale horse drawn wagons and that Juan valdez is not 83 and can't hand pick coffee beans any longer.

Quote: NYSith

It's funny how at a restaurant or bar, they'll have the "Imports" list for beers and like you said, when you check the bottle, it says "Brewed in St. Louis, MO". You get charged the price of an import, when its actually a domestic.

Well, we have the same thing with cars. An "imported" Camry or a "domestic" made in Mexico. I care about the quality of the beer, not where it was brewed. Sam Adams used to be 90% brewed by Pittsburgh Brewing Company. Unless you were in MA or north of it, your Boston Larger came from Pittsburgh. Which for those who knew this was happening locally was a huge joke because PBC beers were just plain horrible. The only locals who would drink them were those who had the local pride thing or wanted the cheap draft at a bar. Point being it is the recipe and not where it was made or even who made it, assuming they follow the recipe.

And this was small brewery American craft is winning and AB & MC (Miller-Coors) are trying to buy small breweries or pass of garbage like Shock Top and Blue Moon as craft without their name on it.

Sadly you can always count on the stupidity of the America Consumer (and voter) to fall for it.

Quote: AZDuffman

Well, we have the same thing with cars. An "imported" Camry or a "domestic" made in Mexico. I care about the quality of the beer, not where it was brewed. Sam Adams used to be 90% brewed by Pittsburgh Brewing Company. Unless you were in MA or north of it, your Boston Larger came from Pittsburgh. Which for those who knew this was happening locally was a huge joke because PBC beers were just plain horrible. The only locals who would drink them were those who had the local pride thing or wanted the cheap draft at a bar. Point being it is the recipe and not where it was made or even who made it, assuming they follow the recipe.

Being a Milwaukee native, it was a running joke in town that since the only place in America where the 16 oz plastic bottle is manufactured for Miller Brewery is in Fort Worth, TX, that the beer you drank at Miller Park (which is just across the freeway from the Miller Brewery) was made in Texas.