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Scottish Sun
10 hours ago
- Scottish Sun
Beer taster sues brewery where he worked for 16yrs for making him an ALCOHOLIC after ‘downing 7 pints a day on the job'
He claims he necked almost 25,000 pints whilst working at the company BREW DID THIS TO ME BREW DID THIS TO ME Beer taster sues brewery where he worked for 16yrs for making him an ALCOHOLIC after 'downing 7 pints a day on the job' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A PROFESSIONAL beer taster has sued a brewery he worked at for 16 years claiming his job turned him into an alcoholic. The taster said he was "forced" to down up to four litres of beer every day but was never warned of the heath risks. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 The taster claimed he was forced to down up to four litres of beer a day Credit: Alamy 2 Ambev brewery was accused of facilitating an employee's alcoholism Credit: Getty He started at the Ambev brewery in São Paulo, Brazil aged 26 and claims he necked almost 25,000 pints before his dismissal in 1991. Taking matters to court, he said he was required to drink even more before public holidays and special events to meet sales requirements. The court heard his alcoholism was diagnosed eight years later. He later retired on medical grounds aged 65. But judges at the Second Panel of the Superior Labor Court rejected his plea for moral and material damages. Ambev's lawyers argued it was "humanly impossible" for the plaintiff to have consumed that much beer and still work - insisting tastings only require employees to take a "small sip" of the drink. They added that, as a master brewer, he would have been aware of the effects of excessive alcohol consumption and remarked he continued to work as a brewer even after being dismissed from the company. The hearing was the plaintiff's second appeal after his case was thrown out by two lower courts. Judges ruled in favour of the brewery following insubstantial claims linking his alcoholism with the firm. The ruling comes as researchers have revealed heavy drinking more than doubles the risk of brain damage. Boozers who down eight or more alcoholic drinks every week were found to have an increased risk of brain lesions associated with memory and thinking problems in a new study. The 8 ways a pint of beer a day can help BOOST your health – from cancer to diabetes The researchers explained it causes hyaline arteriolosclerosis, which is when small blood vessels narrow and become thick and stiff - making it harder for blood to flow, damaging the brain over time. The condition appears as lesions, areas of damaged tissue in the brain. Heavy drinkers also died an average of 13 years earlier than those who never drank, according to the study published online by the journal Neurology. NHS guidelines on drinking alcohol According to the NHS, regularly drinking more than 14 units of alcohol a week risks damaging your health. To keep health risks from alcohol to a low level if you drink most weeks: men and women are advised not to drink more than 14 units a week on a regular basis spread your drinking over 3 or more days if you regularly drink as much as 14 units a week if you want to cut down, try to have several drink-free days each week If you're pregnant or think you could become pregnant, the safest approach is not to drink alcohol at all to keep risks to your baby to a minimum. You read more on the NHS website. The Brazilian research team say their findings don't prove that heavy drinking causes brain injury, but they do show an association. Study author Dr Alberto Fernando Oliveira Justo, of University of Sao Paulo Medical School, said: "Heavy alcohol consumption is a major global health concern linked to increased health problems and death. "We looked at how alcohol affects the brain as people get older. "Our research shows that heavy alcohol consumption is damaging to the brain, which can lead to memory and thinking problems." The study included 1,781 people who had an average age of 75 when they died. All had brain autopsies. Four out of 10 (40 per cent) of those who never drank had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45 per cent had vascular brain lesions while 44 per cent of the heavy drinkers had vascular brain lesions. Of the former heavy drinkers, 50 per cent had vascular brain lesions.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Pitt County partnership aims to help get businesses going
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Applications are now open for a new program at Pitt Community College called Building Resilient Entrepreneurs in Winterville or BREW. It is a collaboration between the Winterville Chamber of Commerce, Pitt Community College Small Business Center and Town of Winterville. 'How can we help businesses start?,' Executive Director for the Winterville Chamber of Commerce Rebecca Caveness said. 'A lot of what the business owner said that we're in the room is I wish we had a checklist. I wish there was a checklist. I wish there was a guidebook for like how to start.' 'We are hoping that this program will kind of mobilize some of our entrepreneurs that live, work and play in the town of Winterville to hopefully build some strong, sustainable businesses,' Economic Development Planner for the Town of Winterville Tristyn Daughtry said. The program lasts 12 weeks. 'You have to either be getting ready to start a business or you have started a business in the last 12 months,' Caveness said. 'You have to be in Pitt County and your service area has to include Winterville, North Carolina.' The program is designed to give people tools and resources to start a business. 'The goal of the program is for sustainability. So, so starting and launching a business is hard,' Daughtry said. 'We have a lot of entrepreneurs that are here in one level and they might not have the expertise or the knowledge or even sometimes just the commitment to be able to just full send and do it and so the goal is to really grow out their knowledge, equip them with the resources and knowledge to launch the business and to do it successfully and for the long term.' 'The key component that we wanted to include in this was the mentorship aspect,' Caveness said. 'So, it's all well and good to have education, to have the knowledge you're given these tools, but it can still be really intimidating if you don't have somebody who you're going to pick up the phone and call and say, 'I've hit a snag. You know, I really need some help.'' Applications for the program are now open. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
