www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41059610
In 2012, Molson Coors reduced the ABV of Carling from 4% to 3.7%. But they continued to label it as 4%.
They did it to save money on duty, but didn't change the label, so as to avoid pub chains and supermarkets demanding a share of the savings.
This has come to light because HMRC said they should pay duty based on the 4% label.
MC says this is legal because there s a tolerance of 0.5% on the labelled strength, to allow for natural variation between batches.
I would suggest this is not natural variation. If MC gets away with this, will other brewers start deliberately labelling their products as higher strength than they actually are?
Some would say that mislabelling of gnat's urine has been going on ever since the UK was introduced to Harp and watered down Heineken in the 1960s.
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