FREE BEER
We must be dreaming. First we caught word of überbrü, the überculture Collective’s effort at a nonprofit, counter-culture beer, now sadly defunct. Now, FREE BEER. Originally conceived by Copenhagen-based artist collective Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT University, this brew applies modern free software / open source methods to a traditional real-world product - namely the alcoholic beverage loved and enjoyed globally, commonly known as beer.
Still in the dark about what they mean? Here’s a good synopsis:
The recipe and the FREE BEER brand is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, which basically means that anyone can use our recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of our recipe. You are free to earn money from FREE BEER, but you have to publish the recipe under the same license (e.g. on your website or, better still, on this webpage) and credit our work. You can use all our design and branding elements, and are free to change them at will provided you publish your changes under the same license (”Attribution - ShareAlike”).
FREE BEER has earned its accolades. Besides causing a buzz (pun intended) in Wired Magazine, Slashdot, and the BBC, they’ve been served at Tate and Van Abbemuseum openings, nevermind Creative Commons’ birthday party.
If you read our bio, you’ll notice the whole thing hinges around beer. My sister once aptly described the company we keep as “beer people.” The notion of a radical beer is, as I’ve stated before, perhaps one of the best and most artful activist ideas ever hatched. Who wants to start brewing?
