Brewer To Pay Beer Taster Who Developed Addiction

A Brazilian court has ordered local brewer Ambev to pay more than US $49,400 to a beer taster who drank a liter and a half of beer each day and developed an alcohol addiction.

The employee said the company did not provide the health measures needed to keep him from developing alcoholism and that for more than a decade, he drank between 16 and 25 small glasses of beer during his eight-hour shifts at the company.

And just for good measure, he also received a bottle of beer after each shift.

The company argued the employee already was an alcoholic before becoming a beer taster.

But Judge Jose Felipe Ledur said the company still was negligent because an alcoholic should never have been made a beer taster.

The employee said, since working at the brewer, even on vacation he felt like drinking the same amount of beer he drank at work everyday.

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