Free Beer

This article is about an open source beer. For other uses, see Free beer.
Free Beer
Label of Free Beer 3.2.
TypeBeer
ManufacturerIndependent
Country of origin Denmark
Introduced2004
Related productsOpenCola (drink)
Websitehttps://freebeer.org

Free Beer is a beer brand collaboration between students of IT University of Copenhagen[1] and the artist collective Superflex initiated in 2004. The recipe of the beer is published under a Creative Commons license, granting others the right to freely use and distribute it.[2][3]

Free Beer "St Austell" (version 3.2) (2007).
Superflex Workshop at the "Free Beer Factory" event at the Taipei Biennial 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan[4]
Free Beer on sale at the iSummit 2008 Sapporo in Japan sold for 500yen.[5]
Anti-copyright display with a "Free Beer version 3.2 St. Austell" mascot and a sign reading "Copyright is preventing access to knowledge" (2007)
  1. ^ "Danish students launch open source and shareware beer". COPENHAGEN CAPACITY. 2004-12-30. Archived from the original on 2005-01-04. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  2. ^ Lessig, Lawrence (2006-09-01). "Free, as in Beer". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  3. ^ Drobnick, Jim (Winter 2018). "Bottles of Art, Works of Alcohol". Gastronomica. 18 (4): 54–70. doi:10.1525/gfc.2018.18.4.54. ISSN 1529-3262. JSTOR 26586442 – via JSTOR.
  4. ^ "Program". TAIPEI BIENNIAL. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lessig2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).