C&D vs. Brewer's Art

After looking at the can I can see where they probably brought it on themselves. I'm not saying I think it's particularly right, but in todays over-lawyered world, not at all surprised.

 

Pretty obvious which "Ozzy" Brewer's Art is referencing. Not surprising they were sued.

 

ozzy would not approve

 

I've always wondered about this one. What were they thinking?

 

really? I think Ozzy [or whoever has power-of-attorney to manage his assets] would approve of almost anything as long as he got a cut of the profits.

 

I'm just suprised it took this long.

 

Ozzy probably doesn't even know that brewer's art exists.

 

I'm not sure that Ozzy even knows if Ozzy still exists... but the lawyers know all.....

 

Well, for one thing, they probably figured getting his attention, a C&D, and some media coverage would generate publicity and get the brewery's name out there. I'd never heard of them until this post, so....

 

Lol i was thinking the same.

if Descartes was right, then ozzy was gone a long time ago.

 

Philosophical humor... love it. I think I'm going to name one of my next brews 'Potionem Ergo Sum'

 

Wish I lived closer to this place. Food is a bit on the frou-frou side and you might need a snack when you get home but have never had a bad meal here and the beer is great. As noted, bottles and cans contracted out to Sly Fox but, I believe, anything served on-site is brewed on-site.

 

I wondered why there was a handful of Brewer's Art beer cans laying around the Sly Fox brewery. Thanks for the info.

 

I see it a bit differently. Over the years, I'm sure they must have been able to sell a good amount of beer based on the packaging/name alone... the same way that Robinson's Trooper beer has been showing up all over the place. The difference being that Robinson made Trooper with Bruce Dickinson. The OP's link shows a picture of the Ozzy cans, but the beer also comes in large bottles - and on the bottle label the font used looks very much like the font used on Ozzy's albums. In the end, it was probably a good business move, but not a very ethical one. Having said all that, I have happily spent money on some Brewer's Art beers over the last year.

 

I find this odd. This is one of my favorite brews from these guys (with great ambience inside).

I contacted them years ago about the beer and the name (this is before they canned it) asking about it and they said it was yes in hommage of sorts to him, but why this strikes me as odd is that if I remember that old email correctly he actually had the beer and tried it.

So this all strikes me as kind of odd. There is no doubt some legal issues with his branding, it does look pretty distinct just wondering why they are bringing this up so late.

 

Hopefully they won't discontinue the beer completely, It was surprisingly good the time I had it.

 

Just thought I'd mention that btw, this is a delicious Belgian Strong Pale, one of my favorites.

If I'm remembering right, they wanted to name the beer similar to some belgians such as Duvel (which mean devil) and Lucifer, so with Ozzies satanic association, they decided to name the beer Ozzy.