Rather than turning a naming dispute into a legal matter, Strange Brewing & Odyssey Beerwerks have decided to turn it into fun. This from Westword:
Tim Myers and Chris Hill are in double trouble. They've both been brewing a Scotch ale (a strong, sweet, caramel-colored beer) called Caber Toss and selling it out of their respective breweries -- Myers at Strange Brewing and Hill at Odyssey Beerwerks.
Rather than turn this trouble into a legal matter, however, the two brewers have decided to handle the issue the old-fashioned way: with a knock-down, drag-out duel.
"He obviously thinks his is better, and I think mine is way better," Myers says. So they're going to let the public decide, by tapping the beer at two different venues, Black Sky Brewery and Colorado Plus, and asking drinkers to vote for their favorite.
The stakes aren't very high -- the loser has to wear a T-shirt with the other brewery's logo -- and neither brewery is planning to package its Caber Toss, anyway. But Myers and Hill thought the battle would serve to highlight how in the increasingly litigious world of craft-beer naming rights, breweries can collaborate...rather than sue one another.
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