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MGD is beer, says judge
READING, Pa. -- A judge who dismissed charges against a man accused of buying a case of beer for a 17-year-old, saying prosecutors failed to prove Miller Genuine Draft was an alcoholic beverage, was mistaken, state Superior Court ruled. *** Berks County Judge Jeffrey K. Sprecher [had originally] dismissed the charge, saying the prosecution failed to provide the state Liquor Control Board's list of beers to prove the beverage was beer. "It's equally plausible that the defendant purchased a nonalcoholic beverage with a flavor similar to beer,'' he had ruled.
I can't resist comparing this to the tag-line of the Michelob commercials: "Beer or Michelob?" which always suggested that this particular flavor of pisswater was not fit to be called beer.
As I am wont to tell my beer-drinking friends: if it doesn't change color as your kidneys are processing it, it wasn't beer.