Bud Light Nutrition Labels

Cool idea. I really hope something like this catches on, although I'm doubtful. I know the reason, but I've always found it crazy that there's no sort of nutrition facts on alcohol, especially given the direction the industry is going.

I could also see the catching on, at least with the health conscious. The one thing these AAL have going for them is their simplicity. Makes sense to showcase it, especially when who even know what a nutrition label would look like on a milkshake IPA or pastry stout.

 

As a proponent of transparency, I like this move and hope it catches on as well. Even if these details are just posted on a brewery's website. I would find it very useful as a consumer.

 

Being more cynical about the marketing practices of ABInBev, I'm suspicious that this is a way for them to increase the costs to smaller independent breweries who would be less able to absorb the increase to compete.
Especially if the government decides that ABInBev is leading the way and makes the labeling mandatory.

 

They don't use yeast to make Bud Light? It's not on the ingredient list.

 

And what about alcohol?

 

This has been legal on a voluntary basis for brewers since 2013.
TTB Issues Guidelines for Voluntary Serving Facts Statements

www.ttb.gov/rulings/2013-2.pdf

 

Well, what good are contents listings that are missing contents? Shouldn't be optional.

 

Honestly. A side graphic near the government warning is perfect and spoils me, as I see that on pilsner urquell.


But a prominent display on the packaging art? Yeah. That's a nice play against mgd ultra. 'Why have 95 calories that you hate when you can have 110 of something decent '


I'd love to see a big BBA stout marked as 800 calories. Craft beer for decades has loves that silent allure of healthy and better.

So beers don't even show the ABV. It's the norm on quick can releases that sell out. So I appreciate at least a bit more info than just ABV.

 

I prefer to incorrectly believe the 16 oz can of an 8% double NEIPA I am drinking has just a few more calories than a bud, so I hope this doesn't become a trend.

 

Exactly. Nutrition information should be available only on a need-to-know basis, and I don't need to know.

 

Anheuser-Busch doesn't consider yeast an ingredient in the finished beer because (like the tannin they use for chill-proofing) it is filtered out of the beer before.
I suppose that's an industry-wide standard (not sure if the FDA and TTB regulators agree?) - some claim that some of the "bad beer" batches Schlitz produced in the 1970s that helped bring the company down (they had multiple problems) was because they changed several additives they used as "foaming agents" and "chill-proofing" because of proposed ATF ingredient labeling laws at the time (which never went into affect). The new "natural" ones were designed to be removed during the finishing and filtering process but, instead, negatively interacted and caused clumps, aka "Schlitz bitz", after the beer was packaged.

Alcohol is not an "ingredient", as such, since it is created during the brewing process, not added by the brewer. In the case of Bud Light, it is listed elsewhere on the label:

 

If they want to emulate the FDA labels, they'll need to move alcohol to the contents list.

 

Not based on the already existing FDA approved labels for beers that do not meet the TTB definition of a "malt beverage" (because they don't use barley malt), like DFH's Tweason Ale and Full Sail's 100% Wheat beer.


See Classification of Brewed Products as “Beer” Under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and as “Malt Beverages” Under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act

The topic of noting the ABV (but not as an ingredient) on the voluntary Serving Facts TTB labels is covered on pages 5-6 under the heading B. Inclusion of Information About Alcohol Content in Serving Facts Statements

 

I find it interesting, that is has taken this long to get these labels. The information about all American Adjunct Lagers, has been posted online for years. I know for a fact over 10 years. It is no big mystery. I
really don't think it will increase, or decrease sales. However it is nice to see what is in your beer.. but then again we all know why you would grab a BL or a craft brew anyway.
Just my two cents

 

As a diabetic this is a great step I hope catches on in craft beer where consumers (seem to) tend to be more health conscious. There is no good reason to prevent consumers from making informed decisions about what they put into their bodies other than stoking the self-delusion mentioned earlier in this thread. I know I'd love to have some idea if a beer is ACTUAL 'BEETUS JUICE rather than making a guess based on taste after it's already opened.

 

Don't say Beetus Juice three times in a row.

 

When I was a kid we rationalized drinking excessively by saying one Bud = 1 pork chop, in other words it is good for you- ( I think it might be true calorie wise)