Beer comp "fine print"

General Homebrew Discussion
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As soon as they scale it up to pro scale, you’ll find that malt ratios change, hop utilization changes, extraction efficiency changes, etc.  For example, your carefully tweaked amount X oz of XYZ malt gets rounded to N sacks (where N is a whole number) and your hop measurements get rounded to Y lbs.  Your mash hop regimen gets changed to a FWH addition because its too expensive and it chokes their mash tun.

All it takes is just one or 2 of these changes and it really ceases to be yours and becomes their recipe anyways.  Don’t sweat it.  The long lost “von Wolfhausen family recipe” like you see in Beerfest doesn’t exist.

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OH… Duh!  My bad.

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All that language means is that you won’t have a financial interest in anything the brewery does with your recipe in the future. No enterprising lawsuits to claim a right to compensation for giving the brewery the recipe.

I would think about entering a competition where the recipe you crafted from another local brewery might be brewed by that brewery’s competitor in its own market. It could dilute the market for that brewery’s beer. At worst it could be financially harmful and at best it could sour any desire to help out homebrewers in the future.