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Alcoholic beer taster gets US$2mn

A master brewer in Brazil is reported to have won around US$2mn from a brewery after he claimed that 20 years as a taster turned him into an alcoholic. The man apparently drank around eight litres of beer every day while working at the brewery near Rio de Janeiro.

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