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).