CenturyLink Field, home to the Seattle Seahawks may have gone from sneaky to dishonest.
The venue that denied San Francisco 49ers the ability to buy tickets for the NFC Championship Game last season, now is being accused of diluting beer to its patrons.
Extramustard.si.com reported Wednesday that a on a story that KOMO-TV in Seattle did about the alcohol content of six brands of beer at CenturyLink Field.
KOMO reported that all six brands had a lower alcohol content at the stadium than their brewers advertised. Five of the six had 0.3 percent less alcohol than brewers advertise. Federal law prohibits alcohol providers from selling beer that is less than 0.3 percent below the advertised content.
Bud Light, Red Hook Brewery No Equal, Shocktop, Bass Pale Ale and Budweiser sold at the stadium all were found to be in violation of the federal law. The other beer, Stella Artois, had 0.2 percent less than advertised.
"It's money, man. Greed. Same thing as everybody else. What makes the world go around? Money," said fan James Walker.
CenturyLink officials refused to share any contract information with vendors and concessionaire Delaware North Sports Service with the news station.
According to KOMO, Anheuser-Busch, which owns five of the six beers in question, contacted the station but would not consent to a formal interview.
The company, which owns all of the beers tested except for Red Hook, also said its own test "found no irregularities."
"In this case, the collection and transport using a plastic container, the lab and testing method could all fail to protect the alcohol content, which would explain the same variance in all samples taken," the beer conglomerate said in a statement, according to ESPN's Darren Rovell.
An Anheuser-Busch representative told KOMO that the company questioned the data and testing method, issuing a written statement that the beer at CenturyLink Field is the same you can "purchase at bars, restaurants, convenience stores and other retail locations." Anheuser-Busch said told KOMO it strictly follows all federal rules and did its own test and "found no irregularities" in alcohol content.
IEH Labs in Seattle, which conducted the beer experiments, conceded that a drop in alcohol content was possible, but that alone wouldn't explain the results. The results merit further investigation, KOMO reported.
KOMO added that a discrepancy was found in San Diego at Petco Park in 2008.
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