{"id":312489,"date":"2026-03-04T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312489\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:44:08","slug":"2500-cases-of-steinlager-low-carb-beer-recalled-after-alcohol-free-mislabelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312489\/","title":{"rendered":"2500 cases of Steinlager low-carb beer recalled after alcohol-free mislabelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Steinlager Alcohol Free is only ever sold in green bottles, not clear bottles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am very mindful that this recall will be concerning for a range of consumers who have medical, cultural, or lifestyle reasons why they select non-alcoholic beverages,\u201d said New Zealand Food Safety deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPeople avoiding alcohol should not consume this product. They can return it to the place of purchase for a refund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Thousands of 24-packs of the ultra-low-carb beer have been recalled because they were mistakenly labelled alcohol free. Photo \/ MPI\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Thousands of 24-packs of the ultra-low-carb beer have been recalled because they were mistakenly labelled alcohol free. Photo \/ MPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">The affected products are sold at retailers and hospitality businesses nationwide. They have been removed from store shelves and have not been exported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Lion said consumers can contact them directly on 0800 835 554 and will be reimbursed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cConsumer safety is our highest priority and we want to sincerely apologise to customers and consumers for any distress or concern caused,\u201c a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will be conducting a full investigation to identify how this error occurred and will be putting steps and processes in place to ensure it does not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steinlager Alcohol Free is only ever sold in green bottles, not clear bottles. \u201cI am very mindful that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[104554,74,108376,38576,30084,682,68692,2512,42,153054,31181,169942,169943,43,1118,23840,169941,40,38,41,39,3608],"class_list":{"0":"post-312489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-104554","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-alcoholfree","11":"tag-batch","12":"tag-beer","13":"tag-being","14":"tag-bottles","15":"tag-cases","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-incorrectly","18":"tag-labelled","19":"tag-lowcarb","20":"tag-mislabelling","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-of","23":"tag-recalled","24":"tag-steinlager","25":"tag-top-news","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topnews","28":"tag-topstories","29":"tag-were"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}