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perogi
Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 850 Location: NH
Drinking: Perogi Pale, NEIPA, Nutter's Crossing Nut Brown Ale, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter Clone
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Link Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 1:48 am Post subject: Pseudo Poll - When is a recipe YOUR recipe?? |
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Howdy all,
When does a published recipe become your recipe? In other words, if you use a published recipe as a base and you make changes - how different does your recipe need to be before you can call it "yours"?
Curious what everyone's take is on this.
Thanks,
perogi.
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Fatbaldingoldgit
Joined: 28 Nov 2011 Posts: 141 Location: Horsham, West Sussex
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Link Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:33 am Post subject: |
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My own view...given that its not possible to patent or copyright a recipe is that once you have altered a recipe it becomes, de facto, your own...it's really a moral issue more than anything..and only becomes a practical one if the recipe you are copying/modifying has a really unique element to it that causes it to stand out from its peers..it's difficult to justify saying its your own recipe if you have copied and modified something so unusual that it becomes obvious its not something you have thought of yourself.
My own Old Flatulent is a derivation of a recipe i found in a published beer book...mind you there isn't much originality in either the source recipe or my own derivation..and how much variation can there be in brewing malt, hops and water anyway!
The name is original though!
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perogi
Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 850 Location: NH
Drinking: Perogi Pale, NEIPA, Nutter's Crossing Nut Brown Ale, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter Clone
Working on: Max's Maibock
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Link Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:20 am Post subject: |
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Thanks FBOG!
Anyone else have any thoughts about this subject?
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11116 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Link Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:42 am Post subject: |
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I agree with Fatbaldingoldgit - you can't copyright recipes but that doesn't meant you can't be nice and mention the source if you have one that's very close to something else.
Some of my fav's are one-offs others and I always try to mention the original source to give them credit.
I would say that it's pretty hard to have a 100% original recipe these days.
A recipe is only half the story too - it's all about the brewing process. A bunch of local brewers got together about 2 years ago and we all brewed the exact same simple APA recipe. You had to stick to the recipe, yeast, fermentation temp, etc. The one thing we didn't stipulate was water adjustments as not everyone knew how or did it. At the end we all got together to taste the results. It was quite varied which just goes to show (as a I've always known) that the process is as (if not more) important than the recipe.
Kal
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