"The way you act about your recipes is a little silly, IMHO. The point of this hobby (to me and many others) is to have an open community of brewers who share their recipes and experiences with one another. It's not a giant competition where we stash away what we create like the soup Nazi, hoping for financial gain from our "work." None of us own a brew pub, and if we did, we'd be disqualified for using said brew pub in creating our beer for the contest (see the rules)."
That certainly is one way to look at it, the sharing thing. But what if a buddy that you shared your reciepe with took it national, claimed credit for the development of it, wouldn't you be just a tad bit upset? Well in this case, you would be given $5000 and credit for it, but nothing more.
That certainly is one way to look at it, the sharing thing. But what if a buddy that you shared your reciepe with took it national, claimed credit for the development of it, wouldn't you be just a tad bit upset? Well in this case, you would be given $5000 and credit for it, but nothing more.