[troybinso]

Anyone who thinks a printed out recipe is worth something hasn't brewed enough to know they are wrong.

[ynotbrusum]

I have found that all really good Brewers will give up all of the secrets about their beer.  They don't worry about someone stealing their secrets.  Some Brewers will even give water adjustments based on RO.

[klickitat jim]

I have found that all really good Brewers will give up all of the secrets about their beer.  They don't worry about someone stealing their secrets.  Some Brewers will even give water adjustments based on RO.

Homebrewers at least. Occasionally someone claims a special secret, but usually they don't have a sample of the amazing secret beer with them... so, who knows right?

[hopfenundmalz]

You guys are nicer then me. I make them work for recipes. Amanda received a long-winded diatribe about dark malts before I gave her the recipe a couple weeks later.  I think of it as the timeshare presentation she had to sit through for Disney World tix.   

Ha..... just like that free invitation to Branson, MI. 
So, I just got lucky when I had the privilege of tasting your beers - no diatribe, just beer

Branson MO!

[theDarkSide]

Sounds like Long Shot rules.  No big deal as far as I'm concerned since I'm not planning on going commercial with any of my recipes.

[santoch]

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.

[braufessor]

Branson MO!

OH.... Duh!  My bad. 

[reverseapachemaster]

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.