A US beer drinker has brought a lawsuit against Anheuser Busch Inbev for making him believe that Leffe brand beer was brewed by Belgian monks.

In the lawsuit, the beer consumer Henry Vazquez claimed that the beer was produced in an automated factory that also makes Stella Artois.

Vazquez, who filed the suit in the US District Court of the Southern District of Florida, claimed that due to the alleged deceptive packaging of the Leffe drink, he had to pay a premium price, reported Reuters.

“Vazquez has sought compensation as well as the company to declare that Leffe is not brewed in an abbey.”

He filed the lawsuit against Anheuser in the same court where the company had come to a settlement of over $20m with drinkers of Beck’s, which was allegedly claimed to be a German beer when it was brewed in St Louis, US.

Leffe has allegedly been advertised as a product that was first “brewed and perfected by Belgian monks” in 1240, reported the news agency.

Its packaging also carries the bell tower of an abbey.

The lawsuit also stated that the Leffe label does not mention Stella Artois, including the facility in Leuven, Belgium, where the latter drink is produced.

The facility in Leuven has an annual production capacity of 238 million gallons a year.

Vazquez has sought compensation as well as the company to declare that Leffe is not brewed in an abbey.