FREE BEER

FREE BEER BBQ
Please join us at 1301PE for the LA release of SUPERFLEX’s FREE BEER (version 4.1)
Wednesday 18. August 5-8pm, 6150 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles.

FREE BEER is based on classic ale brewing traditions. The recipe and branding elements of FREE BEER are published under a Creative Commons (Attribution - ShareAlike 2.5) license, which means that anyone can use the recipe to brew their own FREE BEER or create a derivative of the recipe. Anyone is free to earn money from FREE BEER, but they must publish the recipe under the same license and credit our work. All design and branding elements are available to beer brewers, and can be modified to suit, provided changes are published under the same license (”Attribution and ShareAlike”).

FREE BEER is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense of free beer. The project, originally conceived by Copenhagen-based artist collective Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT University, applies modern free software/open source methods to a traditional real-world product - namely the alcoholic beverage loved and enjoyed globally, and commonly known as beer.

FREE BEER is a collection of texts written by speakers at FSCONS 2008 and based on their respective talks. FREE BEER is based on classic communication technology, but with added hypertext protocols for a natural energy boost.

The authors of FREE BEER are Rasmus Fleischer, Jeremiah Foster, Stefan Larsson, Mike Linksvayer, Smári McCarthy, Henrik Moltke, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen, Denis Jaromil Rojo, Johan Söderberg, Victor Stone and Ville Sundell.

The entire book, including this website, is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence, version 2.5. This licence gives everyone the right to share, modify and even make money from the book, as long as it happens under the same licence.

Of course, FREE BEER is also a beer. You can find out more about the beer in the interview on page 57.

FREE BEER has been edited by Stian Rødven Eide. Thanks to Donald Williams for proofreading and Patrik Willard for the LaTeX wizardry.

Download the book here:
http://freebeer.fscons.org/

Free Beer version 4.0 brewed by Skands bottled in 25cl bottles. The labels has 6 color variations.

FREE BEER ( Codename: ARTSPACE) has been launched in Auckland, New Zealand.
For their exhibition at ARTSPACE NZ., SUPERFLEX is presenting FREE BEER (Code name: ARTSPACE) brewed by the Steam Brewing Company. Local artist & homebrewer Simon Cuming has also brewed a batch of unique FREE BEER in the gallery beginning the process on opening night and serving the result on the closing party 22 November.
ARTSPACE will seek to explore the potential of FREE BEER (Code name ARTSPACE) as an economic model for funding artistic production within the framework of the gallery.

FREE BEER (Code name: ARTSPACE) Available for private and commercial purchase:
$2 per bottle, $40 case of 24, Cash only
Please enquire at ARTSPACE office for more information.

FREE BEER events:
THE FREE BEER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PUB QUIZ, At: Tuesday 18 November at D.O.C, 352 Karangahape Rd, A chance to win a Brewcraft start-up kit and other FREE BEER related prizes!
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Closing Party: Saturday 22 November, 3pm

ARTSPACE
Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton
PO Box 68418, Newton, Auckland, 1145 New Zealand
phone +64 9 3034965 fax +64 9 3661842
artspace@artspace.org.nz
http://www.artspace.org.nz

HOURS Tuesday - Friday 10-6 / Saturday 11-4

Extra Taiwan øl info:

“It was a pleasure to be invited by SUPERFLEX and Taipei Fine Arts Museum to produce FREE BEER TAIWAN version. I personally strongly support the concept of Creative Commons and am more then happy to participate in this project. It’s difficult to brew beer in Taiwan; the ingredients are difficult to get and regulation are rather strict. Therefore, to those friends who are willing to start making beer; please be alert not to break the law.”
- Mr.Wen, Owner of North Taiwan Brewing company

In collaboration with 2008 Taipei Biennial, FREE BEER TAIWAN will be exhibited and distributed during the exhibition periods. You can find at the following stores at http://www.wretch.cc/blog/usadvd/3001561

FREE BEER 3.3 brewed using the version 3.0 recipe, but with added mushroom!
FREE BEER 3.3 is made in collaboration with Everything Mushrooms, local Knoxville home brewers and mushroom aficionados. Visit their website: everythingmushrooms.com -

The mushroom beer was brewed at the opening of COPYSHOP Knoxville, Tennessee.. Visit their website:
http://copy-shop.org/knoxville

In knoxville Free beer version 3.3 was made together with the people from Everything Mushroom.

As a part of the Taipei Binnial a FREE BEER has been released. The beer is available in different bars around Taipei.

http://www.taipeibiennial.org

FREE BEER TAIWAN has been produced in collaboration with North Taiwan Brewery and is available in selected bars in Taipei. The recipe is FREE BEER version 3.2 (codename: “St Austell”)

Lawrence Lessig:
“Just returning from the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan. The Free Beer project made a showing, with a locally brewed version. But this ad caught my eye: “Free Beer” for “500 yen.”

We’re now at the stage where (at least some) the RMS conception of “free” is clear enough so that even “free beer” is “free as in free speech” such that a price running with the free beer seems (again, to a select set no doubt) perfectly natural.”

http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/how_much_rms_has_won.html

Photo: Mecredis

Henrik Moltke reports that the FREE BEER made in Sapporo is really good.
More info here:
www.icommonssummit.org/summit_blog/2008/05/did-you-say-free-beer.html

Sapporo deputy mayor with FREE BEER

Brewmaster Philipp is making 100 liters of fine FREE BEER 3.0. It going to be brewed on march 1st in Berlin to be ready for the re:publica conference in april.

link:
www.re-publica.de

more pictures can be found here:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/kcu/album/54573
and further more a German newspaper wrote an online article: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/computer/artikel/627/161185/

Copyshop Knoxville and Everything Mushrooms has now bottled FREE BEER version 3.3 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Images here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16038409@N02/

Sábado, 15/12  das 14 às 17h

Com:
Cilene Saorin - mestre-cervejeira, beer sommelier e Presidente da Associação Brasileira de Profissionais em Cerveja e Malte, e Arnaldo Ribeiro - biólogo mestre-cervejeiro Arnaldo Ribeiro.

Conteúdo -  História da cerveja, matérias primas, procedimentos, tipos de cerveja, degustação, cerveja & comida.

Inscreva-se com Elisa no telefone 11 3257 2033.

Galeria Vermelho
Rua Minas Gerais, 350 - 01244010 - São Paulo - 11 3257 2033

www.galeriavermelho.com.br

iCommons, the organisation that rolls out Creative Commons licenses worldwide, is auctioning off “paraphernalia from some of the world’s leading Internet figures”. We donated our last remaining bottle of FREE BEER 1.0. Go get it!

Last remaining FREE BEER version 1.0 by Superflex
Bid on eBay
FREE BEER is free in the truest sense of the word: it was created by applying modern free software/open source methods to a traditional real-world product: beer. Brewed to a Creative Commons licensed recipe by students at the Copenhagen IT University and artist collective Superflex, this is the last bottle of the first batch of version 1.0 Free Beer. In the words of the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil: “It’s not just free beer, it’s good beer!”

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