You still have to pay for it because it costs money to make. But it’s completely open-source beer so you can recreate it yourself if you don’t want to buy it pre-made, or you want to modify the recipe.

I have no idea how to make beer otherwise I’d have a crack at this shitpost myself…

  • Ellia Plissken
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    311 months ago

    I just read about some bakery burning down, and some locals getting together to donate some of their ancient sourdough starter.

  • @[email protected]
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    911 months ago

    Bizarrely, for a very self positioned premium beer company, they made a very cool sharing of their recipes for home brewers, DIY DOG

    • WFH
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      211 months ago

      Came here to post that.

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

      A lot of the craft breweries have published their recipes for years. I’ve done beers from Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas, Tree House and Rogue. There’s a few of the recipes in “Homebrewers Recipe Guide” by Higgins, Kilgore & Hertlein, and some that I’ve just picked up on the brewery websites like the one you link.

  • lurch (he/him)
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    211 months ago

    I think that’s already a thing. I remember reading about that a few years ago, but probably hard to find after the home brewing and craft beer hype.

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    2211 months ago

    Isn’t this already true? Beer is essentially just water, barley, malt, and hops. We’ve been making it for thousands of years.

    • palordrolap
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      911 months ago

      So I put 100g of barleycorns, 100g of malt extract, 100g of hops and 100ml of water into a pint glass and it’s really hard to stir. When does it turn into beer?

      • @[email protected]
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        711 months ago

        Yeah there 100% is and probably always has been. The yeast strain, the varieties and processing of the barley and hops, the water source, the process etc all make for wildly different products. So a make that has a distinctive and popular beer will absolutely guard the recipe. This was true at least back through the medieval period, and there are some Belgian beers that still have proprietary recipes that are hundreds of years old

  • southsamurai
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    911 months ago

    Sorry, but you can not have my proprietary beard yeast, so you can’t have the same beer I make (I don’t make beer. I do make bread, but have never cultured my beard yeast)

  • TimeSquirrel
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    9311 months ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Beer, is in fact, GNU/Beer, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Beer. Beer is not an alcoholic drink unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU hops, rye, and fermentation process comprising a full libation as defined by POSIX.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    1511 months ago

    Beer is fairly well solved enough by now that, if you have a good nose and a brew calculator site, you can guess your way to 80% accuracy for any given beer at a first try, and by the time I’ve iterated much further than that, I’ve arrived at something more interesting anyway.

    If you’re a company that sells beer, your business model is more based on people’s lack of interest in that creative work than it is around protecting any “secret recipe”.