{"id":316,"date":"2023-10-24T03:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/a-chinese-factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers-will-gross-you-out\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T09:06:56","slug":"factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese Factory Made Fake Budweiser Beers Will Gross You Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers\/#Photo_Ng_Yi_Shu_Mashable\" title=\"Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable\">Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers\/#Workers_shown_in_the_video_putting_beer_into_used_cans_Photo_Handout\" title=\"Workers shown in the video putting beer into used cans. Photo: Handout\">Workers shown in the video putting beer into used cans. Photo: Handout<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers\/#Police_are_later_shown_inside_the_warehouse_with_crates_of_beer_stacked_in_the_background_Photo_Mashable\" title=\"Police are later shown inside the warehouse, with crates of beer stacked in the background. Photo: Mashable\">Police are later shown inside the warehouse, with crates of beer stacked in the background. Photo: Mashable<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers\/#Photo_Ng_Yi_Shu_Mashable-2\" title=\"Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable\">Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/factory-made-fake-budweiser-beers\/#Photo_Ng_Yi_Shu_Mashable-3\" title=\"Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable\">Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Ng_Yi_Shu_Mashable\"><\/span>Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>A TV station in central China has released a video showing a group of workers in a warehouse putting beer into used and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/jobs\">recycled Budweiser cans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fg7zjl5h2vmxpjoRqIrXBxeWc9K4?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"Budweiser\" width=\"500\" height=\"688\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Workers_shown_in_the_video_putting_beer_into_used_cans_Photo_Handout\"><\/span>Workers shown in the video putting beer into used cans. Photo: Handout<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It was raided by authorities in Dongguan, a city in Guangdong, south China, early this month.<\/p>\n<p>According to local reports, the factory was churning out 600,000 cartons of fake beer a month, although it hasn&#8217;t been specified how long it was operating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FoNzEx_LljpWetxpZZg2_DythfUE?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"2.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"582.1428571428571\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Police_are_later_shown_inside_the_warehouse_with_crates_of_beer_stacked_in_the_background_Photo_Mashable\"><\/span>Police are later shown inside the warehouse, with crates of beer stacked in the background. Photo: Mashable<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A Budweiser representative told us that they had <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/reported\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Weibo users cracked jokes about the video, in response:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FpvbXgisr7sb4qJRmAQghtSrP-mU?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"w3.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"56.25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Ng_Yi_Shu_Mashable-2\"><\/span>Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8220;Some ice-cold Budweiser should help you stop worrying\u00a0[about\u00a0counterfeits].&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FgKsvisp3xFjVM3fWsUjH6ddVIfX?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"2.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8220;No wonder when I drank beer for the first time at a karaoke lounge,<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>I didn&#8217;t feel a thing.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Frpj6cCPnWa2qBt5W3bvFCSMqwrq?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"3.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"51.782682512733444\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Ng_Yi_Shu_Mashable-3\"><\/span>Photo: Ng Yi Shu \/ Mashable<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8220;I definitely can&#8217;t get drunk on this beer!&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This isn&#8217;t the first time a fake Budweiser production center has been raided in China \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"webwxgetmsgimg 1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"542.8571428571429\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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. 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