A man employed as a beer taster at a Brazilian brewery has won a lawsuit claiming that the company didn't do enough to prevent him from becoming an alcoholic, the BBC reported May 6.

A judge ordered the Ambev brewery to pay the employee $49,000. The worker, who as part of his job drank about 1.5 liters of beer daily, said the firm didn't provide him with proper health care services.

Ambev claimed that the man was already an alcoholic before taking the job, and an initial ruling favored the company. But then the judge decided the firm was still negligent, saying that if the worker was an alcoholic he never should have been employed as a beer taster.