What happens when you have two separate breweries that have brewed the same beer. Just been drinking a Calapooia Paddle Me IPA....it is exactly the same as the Paddle Me IPA put out by the late Siletz Brewery years ago..same IBU same alc% same taste as far as i am concerned. Now Calapooia bought Siletz years ago with the hope of releasing some of the old recipes. I think this is one. Should the old Siletz Paddle Me ratings be forwarded to the new one?
Probably a better question for the "Help" or other general forums. When there have been collaboration beers where the same recipe is brewed by both breweries at their respective locations, they are listed as separate beers.
I would say it is a new beer. Brewing on different equipment will make a difference in the final product. Also pretty likely that they are using a different yeast strain (unless Calapooia coincidentally use the same strain as Siletz for their house yeast, or even less likely brought in a new yeast just to brew one beer). I'm trying to think of a similar circumstance but am drawing a bit of a blank. I do know this though- when Tod Mott left Portsmouth Brewing he famously took the recipe, but not the naming rights, to Kate the Great with him. When he finally decides to brew the beer again albeit under a different name at his new Tributary Brewing it will certainly be considered a new beer (and an insta-whale).
Thomas Hardy is a similar case, although somewhat peculiarly, the database lists O'Hanlon as the brewery for both pre-1999 and post-2003. My only explanation there is that Eldridge Pope stopped operations before BA existed and they didn't want to add a listing for a closed brewery.
Yes, good call. Similarly Samichlaus has two separate listings- one for the old Swiss Hurlimann version and one for the newer Austrian Schloss Eggenberg version.
