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06.01.2009 2:30 pm

Batch of Coors Light pulled after taste tests reveal badness. Oops!

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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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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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.

— b
4:02 pm June 1st, 2009

Hmm… badness is a pretty vague description. It’s hard to know what would constitute for a bad beer taste. Meaning, did it taste too strongly of one ingredient over the other? Would be interesting to know exactly what subpar-ness means. If this had happened at AB InBev, I’d be inclined to think maybe one of the clydesdales got loose and found himself near the production line…

— Rebekah
4:09 pm June 1st, 2009

What’s next? Substandard Milwaukee’s Best?

— Chicken Cooper
4:12 pm June 1st, 2009

I thought I just saw a TV spot saying Coors light is only brewed in Golden, Co?

— TopGun
6:03 pm June 1st, 2009

that is Coors Original, also known as the Banquet beer, that is only brewed in Golden…tasty beer give it a shot

— MCtime
7:28 pm June 1st, 2009

I believe Coors Light is brewed at several breweries, including one in Virginia. That was a source of some controversy a few years ago, because the beer had been made with Rocky Mountain water for so long.

— Jeremiah McWilliams
7:39 pm June 1st, 2009

It doesn’t really matter where the water comes from. That controversy was surely started by a rival company…. *cough* cough* AB…..

A brewer can add and filter out ‘ingredients’ to match the mineral and PH content of water anywhere. I don’t know if Coors does this or not, I’d be surprised if they didn’t, but I know for a fact that when O’Fallon contracted out their bottle brewing to Stevens Point, that Stevens Point did just that, so that the water they use to make the beer up there is essentially the same water used here.

— b
10:40 pm June 1st, 2009

well at least they still have quality controll. at AB most of those people were let go. they had the guts to say “this batch was not good.” wonder if AB would have made it common knowledge if they found a bad batch.

— huh
11:22 pm June 1st, 2009

since miller and coors combined their u.s. operations they make their products in each other’s plants to cut down on shipping costs. the coors and coors light we get in the mid-west is now made in the great mountains of milwaukee wisconsin. all the claims of rocky mountain taste are all a bunch of empty slogans. they still get most people to believe that their blue moon beer is made in small batches at a craft brewery even though it’s made in the same places as coors and lite.

— mjd
11:27 am June 2nd, 2009

Made with Rocky Mountain Spring Water…ha ha! About time the press gets off AB’s butt. Where is channel 5 today!!

— One More
12:02 pm June 2nd, 2009

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