Top Ten Reasons For Coors Light Recall
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Written By: Nate
MillerCoors recently recalled cans of cold Coors Light after the company determined the batch, brewed at the MillerCoors Georgia brewery was “subpar.” A conspiracy theorist at heart, I have spent countless hours contemplating the actual reason for the recall. Feel free to add any as you see fit!
10. Neanderthal like Coors Light consumers were caught launching cans of the “Silver Bullet” at obsessed fans of the movie Twilight, fearing them to be actual vampires. The company feared lawsuits. Fortunately, no goths were hurt in the incidents.
9. Clever marketing. Any press is good press. Brittany Spears shaved her head, John and Kate Plus Eight parade their divorce across The Learning Channel, Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photo of the Pope, and MillerCoors “recalled” beer.
8. Someone forgot to urinate in the this particular batch. Dang!
7. A disgruntled employee replaced the “r” in “Coors” with an “n” on all of one particular shipment of cans. Fearing racial discrimination lawsuits, the company had no choice but to bite the bullet and dump profit.
6. A pipe routing mistake actually filled the cans with Miller Light. The megolomaniacal company did not want their loyal brainwashed consumers to get too big for their britches after indulging in the fancy triple hopped delight mistakenly pumped into their cans.
5. A rogue brew master saw the light. He was converted by a humble evangelistic beer blog. One sip of that forbidden craft fruit and he had to forsake his Big-Brew collar. To make penance for the past 25 years of false beer doctrine, the once faithful Coors Light Doctor of the Faith sacrificed his pension and gave a false executive order to recall a heretical beer that could pervert the palates of hundreds of gas station beer shoppers nation wide. A hero. A martry. A saint.
4. Someone higher up in the chain of command at MillerCoors suffers from Histrionic Personality Disorder, otherwise known as “whoa is me” syndrome in which the inflicted can only find peace when chaos, pain, and sympathy engulf there life. The “good” news that MillerCoors sales were up despite an economy gasping for air was just too much for this wacko to handle. In order to accommodate his/her inner drama queen the recall was created, a twitter was sent, sympathy flooded in, and inner peace was restored to this individual.
3. A chemical flaw in the “cold activated can” pioneered by the brewing giant actually sported a red mountain when refrigerated. Confused and thirsty low-brow consumers began flooding the company with complaints after many burst cans and messy microwave ovens.
2.The recall was legitimate. A MillerCoors executive purchased a sixer of the tainted malt beverage, and discovered the batch had a foreign ingredient: Flavor. He called the brewery immediately. The order was sent. “You’re all fired!” he raged, “This beer does not taste like water, you idiots!”
1. Otherworldly visitors who have sacrificed muscle mass, reproductive organs, and taste buds for more brain mass and computing power, traversed the galaxies and abducted the 16 wheeler containing the so called “recalled batch of beer” in order to perform cruel tests upon human lab rats aboard their mother ship. Under pressure from the CIA, MillerCoors concocted the story in return for years of beverage contracts at future inaugural balls and parties.
DISCLAIMER: This is satire. If you frequently indulge in Coors Light and find yourself offended, please substitute any other beer variety at your discretion at each place “Coors Light” appears in this article.





















June 4th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Damn, I was going to say something along the lines of 3.
June 4th, 2009 at 9:46 am
3 or 7? I put them in reverse order.
It actually took me a while to compile this list…I had writer’s block.
June 4th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
The one I heard ( which is actually plausible) was that they accidentally put Keystone Light into Coors Light cans. All joking aside, it’s good to see a company put their customers first and pull a product that wasn’t right.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Howard, that is a good point.
When I used to tend bar, I had regular customers who only drank one variety of american light beer. If you tried to pull one over on them, like give them a bud light in stead of a coors light, they would know and send the beer back.
I respect the recall. I wish I could have sampled a tainted can to see what the error was.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I don’t watch enough television, I guess, because I just became aware of this Cold-Activated Can thing tonight. It has to be the stupidest, most misguided marketing gimmick ever. (Actually, there must be worse ones, but I really can’t think of one.) Recall or not (and yes, recalling a flawed product is the right thing to do, but is it possible that this is the first product recalled, ever, because of a flaw IN ITS LABEL?), this idea will not last. It’ll last slightly longer than Starbucks’ “sipping chocolate” (that is, super-super-super-super-super-strong hot chocolate) did.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
…Oh, bummer: on a closer reading of this, I see that the mountains-turning-red-instead-of-blue thing didn’t actually… happen. I’m very disappointed; there would have been poetic justice in that. So the recall was actually a recall on account of the quality of the ACTUAL PRODUCT. So, sounds like maybe Coors ought to be focusing more on the quality of their product than on labels that turn blue if they’re “certifiably cold” or whatever their asinine phrasing is.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:14 am
They should be focusing on quality. However, they start out with inferior products and make an inferior beer. Might as well do something flash to take people’s mind of the fact that they are drinking crap. It’s a bit like watching a nurse distract an infant with something while the doctor puts the needle in. Only these are beer babies watching a flashy can instead of what’s happening.
August 30th, 2009 at 12:39 am
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