Yes my foolish freeper. First you must contact an “authorized and certified” calorie crony capitalist on the list of the appropriate government agency. Then you must provide samples, your secret recipe, and a very large check. Based upon the samples, if there is no variance that requires extensive and expensive retesting, then you have your approved calorie count to be placed on your bottles. Inspectors and re-evaluations will be made periodically at your expense. If variations are discovered, you will be shut down until you can be retested. Inspection results will be given to government lawyers and product liability lawyers for separate civil fines and action to recover damages for class action suit for “product fraud”.
At least from my own experience it is a rare thing for me to look at a nutrition label.
For me at least a nutrition label of on a bottle of beer would just piss me off. I really like the art that goes in to a craft brew beer bottle. A nutrition label would just spoil the effect of the art. It is bad enough that they have to put that warning on the bottle about pregnant woman shouldn’t drink. Might as well put a pair of Groucho Marx novelty nose glasses on the Mona Lisa.
The longer I live the more I hate what big government is doing to our country.
One has to also consider how that cost is distributed amongst the products. A small batch brewery with multiple beer types, the cost will be excessive.
This is another law whose repercussions were not considered. Why not have one calorie label for each general beer type (lager, ale, stout, etc.) and state: "Actual calorie count is estimated based on alcohol content"
Yes, yes, no label for calories is preferred, but that argument has been lost.