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Bud Light brewer accuses competitor of obtaining beer's secret recipe in new lawsuit
KCCI ^ | Oct 18, 2019 | Charles Riley

Posted on 10/19/2019 9:26:55 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Anheuser-Busch InBev has accused rival brewer Miller Coors of obtaining the secret recipes for Bud Light and Michelob Ultra, the latest shot in a long-running legal dispute.

The world's largest brewer claimed Thursday in U.S. court documents that Miller Coors, a subsidiary of Molson Coors, has obtained the "precise recipes" for some of its most popular beers, which it considers trade secrets.

The battle between the brewers started when Anheuser-Busch InBev suggested in advertisements during this year's Super Bowl that corn syrup was being used to make Miller Lite and Coors Lite.

Miller Coors responded in March with a lawsuit that described the ads as "false and misleading."

In May, a judge ordered Anheuser-Busch InBev to stop using certain language related to corn syrup in its advertising and allowed Miller Coors to proceed with its action.

Last month, the court told Anheuser-Busch InBev to stop using the phrase "no corn syrup" on its packaging.

The new legal filing, which is heavily redacted, claims that an employee of the Budweiser brewer sent information including the recipes for Bud Light and Michelob Ultra to an employee of Miller Coors around the time of the Super Bowl.

(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: beer; chat; water
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Secret recipe special ingredient? Could it be that stadium urinals are directly piped to the mash kettles as sparge water? Bud Light and Mic Ultra? I am not saying this is how that "special taste" it is accomplished, but taste it yourself... it is at least possible.
1 posted on 10/19/2019 9:26:55 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Why would anyone want to steal that?


2 posted on 10/19/2019 9:29:01 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Hard to imagine someone stealing the recipe for undrinkable swill.


3 posted on 10/19/2019 9:30:29 AM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Why would you *WANT* the recipe to Bud Light?


4 posted on 10/19/2019 9:32:28 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: null and void

True that I remember I was in a bar once and this British lady was there she took a drink of one of our “lite” beers (it might have been Bud) and exclaimed in a full Cockney accent “you call this bird piss beer!?”.


5 posted on 10/19/2019 9:36:45 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

What? Water?


6 posted on 10/19/2019 9:39:14 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Your typical horse produces gallons of Bud Light every day.


7 posted on 10/19/2019 9:41:16 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Kriggerel

I can think of one reason - so that you don’t accidentally make anything remotely like that horrific substance.


8 posted on 10/19/2019 9:41:52 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
pizzwater.....
9 posted on 10/19/2019 9:45:38 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Drinking lite beer is like having sex in a canoe - its f*cking close to water.


10 posted on 10/19/2019 10:04:44 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

It could have been the horses who leaked the secret.


11 posted on 10/19/2019 10:06:39 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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HaHa, I see what you did there ;-)


12 posted on 10/19/2019 10:09:46 AM PDT by crosdaddy
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The secret is they have used the same bud of hops for over 50 years.

If they tried to sell that as beer in Germany, it'd be jail time big time!

13 posted on 10/19/2019 10:13:38 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I already knew it. Two cups of hydrogen plus one cup of oxygen. Multiply per batch size.


14 posted on 10/19/2019 10:15:08 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: null and void

Yeah, I was thinking that they’d probably have a hard time giving that away.


15 posted on 10/19/2019 10:15:44 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Rebelbase

Remember Billy Carter, Jimmy’s drunken brother? Someone in GA offered a crappy brew to tourists and named it “Billy Beer”. A local farmer, after tasting Billy Beer sent a sample to the State Ag lab to be analyzed. The subsequent report read, “Farmer Jones:We regret to inform you that your mule has diabetes”.


16 posted on 10/19/2019 10:18:53 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Magnatron

I kept hashing over what the big secret could be. I was sitting here thinking about the taste. I then went and cleaned the cat box and it came to me.

The secret ingredient isn’t an ingredient. It is filtration. After brewing it is filtered through used cat litter.


17 posted on 10/19/2019 10:19:36 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

LOL. Love the responses. Once I was at I believe the Waco, Texas airport waiting 2 hours for a flight. I sat down at the bar to drink a beer, and they had Budweiser, Pearl a brand I didn’t like. And another beer that I did not like. So I said I’ll just give me a Budweiser. And the guy next to me, total stranger said I’ll get that. I looked at him, surprised and said well thank you very much. So we began to talk and it turned out but he was the regional manager for Budweiser. And I said how come you guys don’t get into Brewing some nice dark beer, or something stronger than Budweiser? And he said let me tell you that all the dark beer we could ever make from now until the end of time would not make as much money as increasing Budweiser sales by one third of 1%.


18 posted on 10/19/2019 10:26:11 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Step 1: Water the horse

Step 2: Wait 2 hours

Step 3: Place large pail under rear portion of horse

Step 4: Bottle and label


19 posted on 10/19/2019 10:28:12 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

They must have kidnapped the horse.


20 posted on 10/19/2019 10:39:43 AM PDT by IronJack
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