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Last Updated: Sunday, 6 May 2007, 22:35 GMT 23:35 UK

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Alcoholic beer taster gets payout

The company claims the man was already an alcoholic
A Brazilian brewery has been ordered to pay $49,000 (�24,570) to an alcoholic beer taster who claims the company failed to prevent his condition.
The man, who has not been named, said the company, Ambev, did not provide him with adequate health care to stop him from developing alcoholism.

He said that for more than a decade he drank around one and a half litres of beer each day.

But Ambev says that the employee was an alcoholic before he took the job.

The employee says he drank between 16 and 25 small glasses of beer during each eight hour shift at the company, and was also given a bottle of beer at the end of each shift.

An initial ruling favoured Ambev, which claimed the man was already an alcoholic.


But Judge Jose Felipe Ledur said the company was still negligent because an alcoholic should have never been employed as a beer taster.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6631147.stm

[Yu_Bum_suk]

1.5 litres of beer / day was less than the average German drank in the early modern era. My guess is that he was exceeding his quota by quite a bit. I mean 1.5 litres isn't even three pints in a country that serves real pints.