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Walmart Is Being Sued for Selling Fake 'Craft Beer'

Not only does Walmart seem to hide the fact those four beers are actually a store brand, but Trouble Brewing doesn’t even exist.

If you're cruising the beer aisle of your local Walmart, you can pick up a Pack of Trouble, a brightly colored cardboard box containing a dozen of its own Trouble Brewing-label beers. But Wal-Mart's real pack of trouble arrived last Friday, in the form of a class action lawsuit filed by an Ohio man over the gargantuan retailer's claims that Trouble Brewing is a craft beer. The lawsuit, which was filed by goddamn American hero Matthew Adam, says that Walmart used "fraudulent, deceptive and unfair" practices to sell the four beers produced under the Trouble Brewing name (Cat's Away IPA, After Party Pale Ale, Round Midnight Belgian White and Red Flag Amber." It says that nothing about the beer qualifies as a craft beer as defined by the Brewers Association—or even as defined by Merriam-Webster, the Cambridge Dictionary, or the Oxford English Dictionary. (We're not kidding: these attorneys went full Encyclopedia Brown with their definitions). Adam's lawsuit is heavy on details pulled from a story published in January by  The Washington Post. In the news outlet's own investigation into Trouble, it said that the beer was "a collaboration" between the retail Goliath and Rochester, New York-based Trouble Brewing. But the  Post discovered that not only does Walmart seem to hide the fact those four beers are actually a store brand, but Trouble Brewing doesn't even  exist. Read more on MUNCHIES

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