This sounds interesting but...

[mac_1103]

Local brewery having a contest. Winning recipe will be brewed by them and released at the brew pub. But there's a catch:

"Introducing The Homebrew Open—a one-of-a-kind homebrewing competition where ingredients are drafted, fantasy football–style. The winning recipe will be brewed on Selvedge Brewing’s 10-barrel system."

Might have to get pretty creative if the draft doesn't go your way...

 

[Dgallo]

I like that idea better than one of the breweries by me does. They have a competition for one style and then the winning brewer gets invited to “help” them brew it and then release it. Feels like a way to just steal a homebrewers recipe for a style they want to have on draft. Just feels disingenuous the way they present it as then they keep releasing the beer without any credit to the homebrewer in the rereleases

 

[Steveruch]

Local brewery having a contest. Winning recipe will be brewed by them and released at the brew pub. But there's a catch:

"Introducing The Homebrew Open—a one-of-a-kind homebrewing competition where ingredients are drafted, fantasy football–style. The winning recipe will be brewed on Selvedge Brewing’s 10-barrel system."

Might have to get pretty creative if the draft doesn't go your way...

We did a recipe draft earlier this year in my local homebrew club: MASH homebrew Fort Wayne. I got assigned group 5 which was the only one that I already had everything in stock.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Definitely sounds interesting and a good challenge. Our local brewery did a wort challenge where they supplied the same wort to each competitor and we all made whatever we wanted, it was fun. Interesting enough the beer that won was a guy that brewed something they don't have on their tap list, a fruited sour..

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

recipe draft

At a home brew club: I'm in.

At a local brewery: no. no. no. @mac_1103

local brewery did a wort challenge

If it's local and the wort is 'interesting' and I have spare time, I'm in. I'll brew what I like, hopefully like what I brewed and (ideally) finish no higher than 3rd place.

 

[JohnDBrewer]

A local brewery by me did a fantasy draft a few years ago for homebrewers. It was a good time. The other local breweries we really interested in it and they were going to do the same thing with other breweries only. Winner would have their beer featured at all the other brewies, which sounded much more interesting. However, noone ever got it off the ground and it never happened. Only did the fantasy draft once, too.

 

[Broothru]

I like that idea better than one of the breweries by me does. They have a competition for one style and then the winning brewer gets invited to “help” them brew it and then release it. Feels like a way to just steal a homebrewers recipe for a style they want to have on draft. Just feels disingenuous the way they present it as then they keep releasing the beer without any credit to the homebrewer in the rereleases

I’ve won a local comp three times and got the opportunity to brew my ‘winners’ with a well respected small, regional brewery. A few years ago my winning beer was a Czech Pilsner. We brewed it together, and it was highlighted (with credits to me) and served at their facility.

Coincidentally, a few months later they brewed a 25th Anniversary beer. It was a Czech Pilsner. A more recent winner of mine was a Munich Helles, which we brewed together. Guess what beer they had on tap when the head brewer and I had an “after the brew” session in the taproom?

Do I feel a hint of being betrayed or cheated? No, not really. Sometimes replication is the truest form of flattery. I’ll take the win and consider it a compliment. Or maybe it’s just a happy coincidence that they thought their clientele liked those styles.

Either way, I don’t care. Nor do I need any royalties. The ‘win’ and opportunity to brew in a professional setting was its own reward.

 

[Dgallo]

I’ve won a local comp three times and got the opportunity to brew my ‘winners’ with a well respected small, regional brewery. A few years ago my winning beer was a Czech Pilsner. We brewed it together, and it was highlighted (with credits to me) and served at their facility.

Coincidentally, a few months later they brewed a 25th Anniversary beer. It was a Czech Pilsner. A more recent winner of mine was a Munich Helles, which we brewed together. Guess what beer they had on tap when the head brewer and I had an “after the brew” session in the taproom?

Do I feel a hint of being betrayed or cheated? No, not really. Sometimes replication is the truest form of flattery. I’ll take the win and consider it a compliment. Or maybe it’s just a happy coincidence that they thought their clientele liked those styles.

Either way, I don’t care. Nor do I need any royalties. The ‘win’ and opportunity to brew in a professional setting was its own reward.

I totally get that people have different views about it. I personally don’t like the non recognition. My most local brewery that I brewed with a few times and collabed with is really good about it. They put my logo on the can and called it a collab. They don’t brew that specific beer anymore but he has a hazy series that uses my grainbill and he openly tells people it’s the grainbill from our collab. I appreciate this because it makes me feel respected

 

[Dland]

At a friend of mine urging, I entered a contest like that a few years ago, in fact, the only beer contest I ever entered. Carefully bottled up several pints of two different beers and my friend took them out to western MA to the brewery, where he sometimes worked. The winner was going to get to go to the brewery and watch & "help" while their recipe got brewed.

I won 1st and 2nd place, for a Classic American and Vienna pils respectively. They backed out because both my brews were lagers, and they said they could not tie up their brite tank that long for a proper lagering. It also seemed to make them uneasy that the CAP had some rye malt in it. My friend said they ended up brewing the 3rd place beer, a local kid's cloudy IPA, which was pretty much what they mostly brewed anyway. Oh well.

 

[JohnDBrewer]

I personally don’t like the non recognition.

Several breweries and a restaurant around me have similar comps. I've never heard of one not giving credit.

 

[Dgallo]

Several breweries and a restaurant around me have similar comps. I've never heard of one not giving credit.

If you go up to my original response you’ll see I’m mentioning a specific brewery by me. I’m saying they give credit that first brew. Then they continue to rebrew the recipe and stop giving credit. There was also more to it that the comp is for 1 beer style, seemed like they want a new recipe but didn’t want to do the r&d for them selves, so they just took a home brewers recipe from their comp

 

[Broothru]

If you go up to my original response you’ll see I’m mentioning a specific brewery by me. I’m saying they give credit that first brew. Then they continue to rebrew the recipe and stop giving credit. There was also more to it that the comp is for 1 beer style, seemed like they want a new recipe but didn’t want to do the r&d for them selves, so they just took a home brewers recipe from their comp

Yeah, I agree, that’s pretty lame.