Beer taster compensated for alcoholic tendencies

Before you apply for a position as an official beer taster, make sure the companies health plan will cover the possibility of developing alcoholic tendencies. Look what happened to a Brazilian beer company whose official beer taster turned alcoholic.

A Brazilian court has ordered local brewer Ambev to pay 100,000 reals (US$49,400; euro36,400) to an alcoholic beer taster who drank about a liter and a half (3.2 pints) of beer each day.

The unidentified employee alleged that the company did not provide the health measures needed to keep him from developing alcoholism, a labor court in the Rio Grande do Sul state said in a statement Friday.

The employee said in his lawsuit that for more than a decade, he drank between 16 and 25 small glasses of beer during his eight-hour shifts at the company

I would imagine beer tasters would simply taste. Taste testing does not necessarily require that the entire beer be consumed right? But then again, why waste beer?