A federal judge has dumped a consolidated class action that accused Anheuser-Busch of watering down its beer, finding that the company acts within federal regulations when it produces malt beverages with a tad lower alcohol content than it theoretically could.
U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent ruled on June 2 that plaintiffs from seven states may be indignant that the beer they buy has 0.3 percent less alcohol than the stated amount on the container, but that amount of variation—under or over—is specifically allowed by regulations enforced by the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, he wrote in In Re: Anheuser-Busch Beer Labeling, Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation. The case was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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