Chinese Fish Switcheroo: Beer Switcheroo

I thought this recent post on Richard Brubaker’s All Roads Lead to China was timely given my last post on the fish-switching.  Rich’s story is short and sweet:

This evening while hosting a dinner party, one of my guests noticed
something funny about his beer (a Corona).  simply put, he said “this
isn’t beer”.

After a few people took their skeptical sips, we hauled out the rest
of the bottles in the refrigerator to make the side by side comparison.

Which, as you will notice, showed us that we had in fact a bad batch of beer on our hands.

1) The color of the real (bottle on left) vs. the fake  (bottles on right) show distinct color differences
2) Look at the different levels on the fake ones
3) Bottle caps on real bottle curve in where the bottle cap ridges point out

so, for those of you tipping back a bottle of Corona, be careful.  I
cannot say that there was melamin in the beer, but lord only knows what
was really in that bottle.

You can’t pop a bottle open in a store for a QC swig, but fortunately, you can walk through a factory and QC your goods prior to shipping them.  Simple enough…