.MillerCoors has sued AnheuserBusch, saying its rival wants to 'frighten' people away from Miller Lite and Coors Light by claiming those beers have corn syrup. More on the suit: Here's more on how corn syrup is used in beer.
MILWAUKEE — A fight between beer giants escalated Thursday after MillerCoors filed a lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch that accused its rival of trying to “frighten” consumers into switching to Bud Light with “misleading” Super Bowl ads.
Chicago-based MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch have the biggest U.S. market share at 24.8 percent and 41.6 percent, respectively, but they’ve been losing business in recent years to smaller independent brewers, imports, and wine and spirits, according to the Brewers Association.from the National Corn Growers Association, which thanked MillerCoors for its support. In its lawsuit, MillerCoors said it’s “not ashamed of its use of corn syrup as a fermentation aid.”during fermentation.
“MillerCoors’ lawsuit is baseless and will not deter Bud Light from providing consumers with the transparency they demand,” said Gemma Hart, the vice president of communications at Anheuser-Busch. “We stand behind the Bud Light transparency campaign and have no plans to change the advertising.” “Anheuser-Busch is fearmongering over a common beer ingredient it uses in many of its own beers, as a fermentation aid that is not even present in the final product. This deliberate deception is bad for the entire beer category,” Marty Maloney, a MillerCoors spokesman, said in a statement.
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