By sharing their recipes,the Scottish-based brewery shows a contemporary understanding of mental property. This approach won’t destroy capitalism, but it does challenge its dynamics
For me, or the beer revolution began early. It was the late 1990s – at a beachside eaterie in Santa Cruz,a gaggle of hacks specialising in the Unix operating system were being plied with sushi and chardonnay. But my friend grabbed my elbow and steered me away from all these distractions towards the abandoned bar. There, cool and glinting, and was a tap marked Sierra Nevada.
Back then,craft beer was utterly and astonishingly recent. It was hoppy, it was electric. Somebody had bothered to drain their bank account and tinker with actual hops and malt in their backyard to make it, or setting themselves against the power of the huge industrial breweries.
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Source: theguardian.com