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Is there a regulation board or group that looks at new brews to see if any cloning has taken place? Is it possible to copyright, so to speak, your own brew to stop others pinching a good recipe and rebranding it as there own? I know it would be foolish for a start to do so. Do brewers tip each other off if the suspect anything going on?
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It would be difficult to prove I reckon

&amp;quot;Joeby&amp;quot;:1m7pjd3a wrote: Is there a regulation board or group that looks at new brews to see if any cloning has taken place?[/quote:1m7pjd3a]I doubt companies would be so protective of their recipes and methods if there was. And I very much doubt the Porterhouse would still be in business neither: trademark infringement was the only thing Guinness were able to threaten them with over WeiserBuddy and Probably Lager.

&amp;quot;Joeby&amp;quot;:1m7pjd3a wrote: Is it possible to copyright, so to speak, your own brew to stop others pinching a good recipe and rebranding it as there own?[/quote:1m7pjd3a]Not legally. Just don't tell anyone what's in it or how you made it.

If you ripped off the recipe presumably you could just claim the yeast is different.Thats 25% of the recipe if I'm not mistaken from the big ads on the telly(or 20% if your a bud).

I don't think you can actually copyright a recipe.

If you brew it its your recipe

Give five brews the same recipe and they will different beers.