Recall for beer from a major German brewery - breakdown poses a risk for customers

A large German brewery warns about one of its products. The beer in question is incorrectly labeled - and could thus have fatal consequences.

• The Karlsberg Brewery has to start a recall for its own product.
• A beer has a glaring flaw on the bottle label.
• If the customer relies on it, there are dire consequences.

Homburg - Many people like to refresh themselves with a cold beer in summer. If you still have to drive your car or another vehicle home safely, you can also use the alcohol-free version of the barley juice.

Alcohol-free beers are usually clearly labeled as such. The customer always wants to be able to rely on the labeling of the food they buy, even if products repeatedly come into contact with dangerous substances that are not noted on the packaging. However, Karlsberg Brauerei GmbH now has to recall a non-alcoholic wheat beer from its range because the company made a blatant labeling error.

Karlsberg recall: wheat beer labeled as alcohol-free does contain alcohol

According to the brewery, a beer was labeled as non-alcoholic even though the bottles contain alcoholic beer. "The bottles were mistakenly provided with a neck loop, which identifies the alcohol-containing product as alcohol-free, " says a message from the Karlsberg brewery.

Affected by the recall is the product “Light natural wheat, alcohol-containing” from the “Karlsberg” brand . The beer was filled in 0.5 l returnable bottles. Every consumer can tell from the so-called lot label whether he has caught a wrongly labeled beer .

Circled in red: the wrongly labeled beer bottles. The blue circle shows the lot number.

© Karlsberg Brewery GmbH

This is locatedon the back of the bottle on the label at the bottom. If the Loskennzeichnungen between "4:21 L16K7-2300" and "04.21L17K7-0200" areand also have the best before date (BBD) 04.2021 , the beers are affected.

According to the company, three federal states are affected by the serious mistake, which could have dire consequences for drivers or people suffering from alcohol . Accordingly, the goods were “placed on the market” in the northern part of Baden-Württemberg as well as in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland .

# RECALL | #WARNING | # CAUTION DRIVERS: Unintentional alcohol consumption by #KARLSBERG #Weizenbier with neck label ´alcohol-free´ https://t.co/ZgSKMFWYIk

Karlsberg recall: beer bottles can be exchanged free of charge

Any beer enthusiast who has bought such a bottle can now have it replaced. According to Karlsberg Brauerei GmbH, the bottles can either be exchanged for correctly labeled goods or the purchase price can be reimbursed by the dealer. This normally works even if the customer can no longer show the proof of purchase.

In addition, the brewery set up a telephone hotline for consumer questions. Concerned customers should be answered on the phone number 06821 - 9144228. Written consumer inquiries can also be sent to the e-mail address info@karlsberg.de. (kh)

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