Babybatch
Well-Known Member
Maybe this sounds like a silly question but I was just wondering what the brew etiquette is regarding naming your brews.
It would seem that this is entirely relative and subjective so in your opinion:
Is following a recipe and bottling or kegging enough to give a beer your own name? Or does it require that you make some change to the recipe or technique? Does your opinion stand with kits?
Inquiring brewple want to know.
I think that if I follow the recipe of someone else to the "T" it would be an act of homage to keep their name. On the other-hand if a change is made it is a "different beer" so out will come the creative name of my choosing. I recognize that this is a slippery slope since one could argue that every beer would be different in some way even if you followed a recipe to the "T". Still I stand by giving a nod to the source. Granted they could have renamed it themselves.
It seems like people stand by the naming conventions of kits since this makes it easier for others to find them but there is something in me that wants to rename some of them.
What are you thoughts?
It would seem that this is entirely relative and subjective so in your opinion:
Is following a recipe and bottling or kegging enough to give a beer your own name? Or does it require that you make some change to the recipe or technique? Does your opinion stand with kits?
Inquiring brewple want to know.
I think that if I follow the recipe of someone else to the "T" it would be an act of homage to keep their name. On the other-hand if a change is made it is a "different beer" so out will come the creative name of my choosing. I recognize that this is a slippery slope since one could argue that every beer would be different in some way even if you followed a recipe to the "T". Still I stand by giving a nod to the source. Granted they could have renamed it themselves.
It seems like people stand by the naming conventions of kits since this makes it easier for others to find them but there is something in me that wants to rename some of them.
What are you thoughts?