Beer Doesn’t Make the 4 Food Groups

The federal government has ordered Yakima Brewing & Malting Co. to remove nutrition labels from its products, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms spokeswoman said.

Yakima Brewing recently had added information about vitamin, mineral and other nutrition elements to the packaging of its Grant’s Scottish Ale.

ATF uses a 1950s-era regulation that prohibits any statement “that the use of any malt beverage has curative or therapeutic effects.”

The firm will have to remove references that each 12-ounce bottle provides 4% of the U.S. recommended daily allowance of protein, 4.6% of Vitamin B-2, 14.6% of niacin, 62.5% of folacin and 170% of Vitamin B-12.