Batch of Coors Light pulled after taste tests reveal badness. Oops!
MillerCoors has recalled a batch of Coors Light in the Southeastern U.S. after taste tests at the company’s Georgia brewery found the beer to be subpar, the Chicago Tribune is reporting here.
The Chicago based brewer, the main U.S. competitor to Anheuser-Busch InBev, last week began pulling the beer from its distribution system and from retailers. The company appears to have acted quickly and decisively - probably wise from a PR perspective.
“We sampled it and realized it wasn’t up to standards,” Pete Marino, a spokesman for MillerCoors, said in the story.
It wasn’t clear how much beer was pulled. The batch involved only Coors Light brewed at MillerCoors’ brewery in Albany, Ga. It also wasn’t clear what caused the problem.



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Jeremiah McWilliams is a native Virginian who came to the Post-Dispatch in early 2007 to cover beer and other consumer products. He previously covered manufacturing for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Va. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.
Didn’t they sample it before it shipped it to distributors? Sounds like shoddy quality control work, to me. My guess is they pulled the batch after complaints. Not after they realized it wasn’t up to standards.