How many have noticed a reduction in the amount of beer in a standard beer bottle? The bottles are the same size, but the breweries - some of them at least - are filling the bottles with less beer and charging the same price.
The standard American beer bottle holds 12 fluid ounces, and that's the way it's been for probably 50 years. I recently discovered that my regular brewer (Sam Adams) and probably others are now filling the bottles with 11.2 fluid ounces. I noticed that the bottles had less beer because I always pour the contents into one of my regular steins. I thought, "Wait a minute, this can't be right!" I looked at the label on the bottle, and there it is in small print "11.2 fl. oz."
Anyone who drinks beer straight from the bottle will probably NEVER NOTICE THIS, but I did. Only because I pour my beer into a glass, and I know how high it's supposed to fill.
.8 ounce means they cheated me out of 9.27% - but they charged me the same price they always do.
If Sam Adams - a major national brewery - is doing this and getting away with it, they'll all be doing it soon enough.
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