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.

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…

What’s next? Substandard Milwaukee’s Best?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Coors Light tasted subpar? You mean even more subpar than usual?
Where were the QA checks at the brewery?

(Sorry, but in my opinion, there’s usually not enough flavor in Coors Light to be able to taste it.)

Interesting comments on the water issue. I don’t think the quality of the water was ever at issue — the water used by big brewers is usually tested very intensely. And apparently, you can get the “profile” of the water to match the water across the country. At least, that’s what I’ve been told. So the source of the water may not be a huge deal, from a taste perspective.

mjd…wrong Coors Banquet will only be made in Golden.

also most of the Miller beer you get here comes from Trenton OH not Milwaukee.