Fireball lawsuit

The label on Fireball sold at liquor stores says "Whisky with natural cinnamon flavor." The subject of the class action lawsuit, which was filed in Illinois, is ...

The label on Fireball sold at liquor stores says "Whisky with natural cinnamon flavor." The labels on the mini bottles are nearly indistinguishable from liquor store Fireball labels except they say "Fireball Cinnamon" with no mention of whisky because it's a malt beverage with whisky flavor. "What consumers were purchasing at non-liquor stores is not whisky at all" even though the labels on the mini bottles are almost identical, the lawsuit alleges.

“Unlike Fireball Whisky, Fireball Cinnamon products can be sold in beer, malt beverage and wine stores for our fans who want a wider variety of convenient ...

A class-action lawsuit was filed in Illinois at the beginning of the month alleging the brand was misleading consumers with a malt beverage.

"When viewed together with the Fireball distilled spirit brand name, the label misleads consumers into believing it is or contains distilled spirits." Instead they contain whiskey flavors, but labeling makes that unclear, according to the lawsuit. "They will think the product is a malt beverage with added (1) natural whisky and (2) other flavors," the lawsuit says.

A new lawsuit claims Sazerac is misleading consumers that its 99 cent "Fireball Cinnamon" product contains whisky. The product, which debuted in 2020, ...

The issue, according to the suit, is that the bottle looks nearly identical to mini bottles of Fireball that do contain whisky. Per the suit, by not including the word "flavors" after whisky, it gives the impression it contains real whisky. It says it contains "malt beverage with natural whisky & other flavors and caramel color." Its ubiquitousness prompted many to wonder how the stores were bypassing liquor laws to sell whisky — until the plaintiff discovered it wasn't whisky at all. It's a malt-beverage version called simply Fireball Cinnamon. - The suit claims the company created the "overall misleading impression" that it contains whisky.

Mini bottles of 'Fireball Cinnamon' contain malt or wine and flavoured to taste like whisky, according to Fireball's website.

[Fireball’s website](https://www.fireballwhisky.com/faqs.html), and the mini bottles are sold in gas stations and convenience stores across the U.S. Fireball writes that it introduced Fireball Cinnamon so that customers could purchase their products in a wider variety of stores, like those without liquor licences. In the lawsuit filed Jan. It’s unclear if the non-whisky Fireballs are available in Canada. 7, Marquez argues that the mini bottles of Fireball whisky are “almost identical” to the bottles of Fireball Cinnamon, and are intentionally deceptive. [Fireball](https://globalnews.ca/tag/fireball) Cinnamon Whisky are facing a [class-action lawsuit](https://globalnews.ca/tag/class-action-lawsuit) for allegedly “misleading” customers, by selling mini bottles of “Fireball Cinnamon” that don’t actually contain any whisky in them.

If you've ever been confused by miniature bottles branded as Fireball Cinnamon, the popular cinnamon-flavored drink found in gas stations and supermarkets, ...

In the suit, Marquez and her attorneys say the mini bottles, which advertise "Fireball Cinnamon," falsely give consumers the impression that the drinks are merely smaller versions of regular Fireball whisky. According to the lawsuit, the Sazerac Company has successfully marked up the price to a "premium" of $0.99 for the 50 milliliter bottles, "as a result of the false and misleading representations." The fine print on the bottles, which states that the shots are a "malt beverage with natural whisky & other flavors and caramel color," is deceptive because it includes the word "whisky," they wrote.

An Illinois woman is suing Fireball's parent company after discovering that some of the miniature bottles don't actually contain whisky.