Brewery wins case against taster turned alcoholic
A brewery has won a legal fight with a former employee after they claimed that their job had turned them into an alcoholic.
The employee, who worked at the Ambev brewery in São Paulo, Brazil from the age of 26 in 1975 was reportedly dismissed from his role as a beer taster in 1991 and has since tried to sue the business where he worked for 16 years of his career.
The beer taster told reporters that he was “downing seven pints a day on the job” equal to four litres of beer every day and claimed he was “forced” to consume almost 25,000 pints whilst working at the company.
Taking matters to court, the former employee said he was required to drink even more before public holidays and special events in a bid to meet sales requirements.
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Despite his claims, judges have rejected his plea for moral and material damages and Ambev’s lawyers have argued it was “humanly impossible” for the plaintiff to have consumed that much beer and still work, reiterating how tastings only require employees to take a “small sip” of the drink.
In a recent comment piece for db, David Jesudason highlighted how beer often gets a lot of bad press within the media and in connection to over-consumption in general when there are myriad reasons behind binge-drinking at play.
They also highlighted how he would have been aware of the effects of excessive alcohol consumption and remarked upon how he continued to work as a brewer within the industry even after being dismissed from his role at AmBev.
The hearing was the plaintiff’s second appeal after his case had already been thrown out by two lower courts. In this final instance, judges ruled in favour of the brewery following insubstantial claims linking his alcoholism with the firm.
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