06.01.2009 2:30 pm
Batch of Coors Light pulled after taste tests reveal badness. Oops!
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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. 
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.