reverendj1
Well-Known Member
I think y'all are getting too tripped up on this. Renaming a beer and claiming it's your own recipe are two very distinct and separate things.
Besides, if I brew your recipe and it comes out tasting like monkey balls, do you really want your name in the credits?
You brewed it, it's yours.
That said, if you follow someone else's recipe exactly, it'd be nice if you repost it on the internet or give the recipe to someone else to give credit to the originator.
andy6026 said:Whenever someone hands me a Budweiser I call it crap.
Even if you didn't brew it, call it whatever you want.
Am I the only one that doesn't name my beers? I recently created my own black IPA (with the help of beer smith) and I call it my black IPA.
Sorry kids, you can't name your beer unless you are a professional brewery.
Am I the only one that doesn't name my beers? I recently created my own black IPA (with the help of beer smith) and I call it my black IPA.
I'm with you. I don't know why, but naming beers has just never really appealed to me. I had a friend ask me this past Saturday, "What do you call this?" To which I responded, "Vanilla Porter."
I don't really have anything against it, I did name my brewery, although that came from the model railroad I built my kids years ago and I put a brewery on there. I wonder if I bottled and labeled if I'd feel more inclined. I guess it's just easier to call it what it is for me.
That's the key to this whole thread! If you're going to name a beer, it better be something you're comfortable saying in front of your beer drinking buddies. If I tell my friends I brewed "Dark Lord Morgadeath's Vanilla Demon-Slayer Porter" then I'm a complete tool, regardless of how creative or original the recipe.
HuskerBrewer said:If I tell my friends I brewed "Dark Lord Morgadeath's Vanilla Demon-Slayer Porter" then I'm a complete tool, regardless of how creative or original the recipe.
JohnSand said:I think I'm with the general sentiment here. I've brewed Centennial Blonde a couple of times, both had modifications. The first used a different crystal, because I had it on hand. In the second I increased the hops. I called them "Centennial Blonde A" and Centennial Blonde B". Crazy, right? When I made Bee Cave Haus Pale, I changed some of the malts and hops, and used two different yeasts. I still called it Bee Cave Haus Pale, "N" and "05" for notty and US-05. But I was kidded on that thread: "So, the only thing you didn't change was the two row?". I guess I could call that my own recipe, really inspired by Bee Cave. I do wonder this about that though: what are the standards for submitting it to competition? Are any published? If I brew out of a book, can I submit it for competition? Should I use the name it was published under? Or is that copyright infringement? I certainly wouldn't claim a recipe as mine if it isn't. Would I just use the style name? And, how much change makes it yours for competition? Or do they care?
If you brew it, you can name it. The recipe ingredients are probably the easiest thing to nail down. There are a hundreds of other variables.
When I first started brewing I always had a quarter once of hops left or a few ounces of grain, now everything round to the nearest half once or pound, mash temperatures are still the bane of my existence and I want a get out jail free card until I get my fermentation chamber done.
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