A TV station in central China has released a video showing a group of workers in a warehouse putting beer into used and recycled Budweiser cans.
Photo: Ng Yi Shu / Mashable
A TV station in central China has released a video showing a group of workers in a warehouse putting beer into used and recycled Budweiser cans.
Workers shown in the video putting beer into used cans. Photo: Handout
The report shown on Hunan Economic Television shows women clearing old Budweiser cans from a cardboard box and then dumping them into a plastic container to refill them with beer. The cans are then shown being resealed with a canning machine.
It was raided by authorities in Dongguan, a city in Guangdong, south China, early this month.
According to local reports, the factory was churning out 600,000 cartons of fake beer a month, although it hasn’t been specified how long it was operating.
Police are later shown inside the warehouse, with crates of beer stacked in the background. Photo: Mashable
A Budweiser representative told us that they had reported the matter to the police, and is seeking legal action. Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owns Budweiser, has 14 breweries in China, and is the third-largest beer brand in the country.
Weibo users cracked jokes about the video, in response:
Photo: Ng Yi Shu / Mashable
“Some ice-cold Budweiser should help you stop worrying [about counterfeits].”
“No wonder when I drank beer for the first time at a karaoke lounge,
I didn’t feel a thing.”
Photo: Ng Yi Shu / Mashable
“I definitely can’t get drunk on this beer!”
This isn’t the first time a fake Budweiser production center has been raided in China — in September last year, police seized nearly 26,000 cans of fake Budweiser in Guangzhou, south China, as well as 36,000 aluminum cans, 20,000 lids and 12,000 pieces of ready-to-use packaging material.
