FREE BEER

Henrik Moltke reports that the FREE BEER made in Sapporo is really good.
More info here:
www.icommonssummit.org/summit_blog/2008/05/did-you-say-free-beer.html

Sapporo deputy mayor with FREE BEER

Brewmaster Philipp is making 100 liters of fine FREE BEER 3.0. It going to be brewed on march 1st in Berlin to be ready for the re:publica conference in april.

link:
www.re-publica.de

more pictures can be found here:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/kcu/album/54573
and further more a German newspaper wrote an online article: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/computer/artikel/627/161185/

Copyshop Knoxville and Everything Mushrooms has now bottled FREE BEER version 3.3 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Images here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16038409@N02/

Sábado, 15/12  das 14 às 17h

Com:
Cilene Saorin - mestre-cervejeira, beer sommelier e Presidente da Associação Brasileira de Profissionais em Cerveja e Malte, e Arnaldo Ribeiro - biólogo mestre-cervejeiro Arnaldo Ribeiro.

Conteúdo -  História da cerveja, matérias primas, procedimentos, tipos de cerveja, degustação, cerveja & comida.

Inscreva-se com Elisa no telefone 11 3257 2033.

Galeria Vermelho
Rua Minas Gerais, 350 - 01244010 - São Paulo - 11 3257 2033

www.galeriavermelho.com.br

iCommons, the organisation that rolls out Creative Commons licenses worldwide, is auctioning off “paraphernalia from some of the world’s leading Internet figures”. We donated our last remaining bottle of FREE BEER 1.0. Go get it!

Last remaining FREE BEER version 1.0 by Superflex
Bid on eBay
FREE BEER is free in the truest sense of the word: it was created by applying modern free software/open source methods to a traditional real-world product: beer. Brewed to a Creative Commons licensed recipe by students at the Copenhagen IT University and artist collective Superflex, this is the last bottle of the first batch of version 1.0 Free Beer. In the words of the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil: “It’s not just free beer, it’s good beer!”

More items here

Germânia is producing FREE BEER (version 3.4) and have now published a FREE BEER website with recipe, concept and graphic material for free use.

Link to website: www.choppgermania.com.br

16h - Conversation with SUPERFLEX, Lisette Lagnado and Ronaldo Lemos

18h - The Free Beer Intellectual Property Pub Quiz

Free Beer is an ‘open brand’ - all material associated with Free Beer, including the logo and recipe, is released under a Creative Commons licence, and can be used or modified by anybody.
The FB-IP-PQ is a set of classic pub quiz questions about music, food, pirates and the unjustifiable encroachment of intellectual property law on all areas of life for the benefit of corporate capital.

1 point for each correct answer unless otherwise stated.

Representatives from the homebrewers association Acerva makes FREE BEER 3.4.
We are looking forward to taste it!!

Link to their websites:
www.acervacarioca.com.br
www.acervapaulista.com.br

A new version of FREE BEER that will be displayed at the gallery Vermelho relies on a partnership with “Cervejaria Germânia”, which, besides producing the beverage adjusting the recipe to the Brazilian palate, will also distribute the product.

The association between Germânia and FREE BEER meets one of the prime objectives of the project, since it builds an open business, which, starting from a real product, questions the copyright system, in relation to intellectual property.

The FREE BEER will also be featured in the exhibition by a series of machines – “Counter-game strategies”. In a game format, the machines, whose rules will be displayed next to them, simulate the fashion of the social economic system, with its production and distribution, competitiveness, collaboration, earnings and profit. These machines will be spread around the gallery and visitors will be able to handle them freely.

OPENING:: November 27th at 20h
PERIOD:: from November 28th to December 22nd, 2007.
CHAT WITH THE ARTISTS and RONAL LEMOS, and FREE BEER PUB QUIZ:: December 1st, from 4 to 8 p.m.
WORKSHOP “THE WOLRD OF BEER” WITH CILENE SAORIN and ARNALDO RIBEIRO:: December 15th from 2 to 5 p.m.
OPENING HOURS:: from Tuesday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
FREE ADMITTANCE

Galeria vermelho
Rua minas gerais, 350 – 01244010 – são paulo – 11 3257 2033
www.galeriavermelho.com.br

Cervejaria Germânia:
www.choppgermania.com.br

FREE BEER 3.3 is brewing this very moment in Copyshop, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Version 3.3 is brewed using the version 3.0 recipe, but with added mushroom!
FREE BEER 3.3 is made in collaboration with Everything Mushrooms, local Knoxville home brewers and mushroom aficionados.
Visit their website
Get the recipe

Exhibition at Van Abbemuseum includes Free Beer:

Forms of Resistance.
Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present.
From 22 September 2007 through to 6 January 2008. The exhibition Forms of Resistance reflects on art and life and departs from four historical moments: the French Commune in 1871, the Russian Revolution of 1917, May 1968 and our world after the Berlin Wall came down (1989).
Based on these benchmarks it includes works by Manet, Courbet, Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Malevich, Brigada Ramona Parra, Atelier Populaire, Tucuman Arde, Sherk, Haacke, Johannesson, General Idea, Leonard, Piper, Ressler and Superflex amongst others.

more info:
http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/engels/tentoonstellingen/vormen-van-verzet_e.htm
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication.

The brewery Le Baiser de la princesse in Lausanne Switzerland has started to produce Free Beer.

Read more about their version of FREE BEER here:
http://home.gna.org/le-baiser

Version 3.2 (codename: St Austell)

This summer a collaboration between SUPERFLEX and Cornwall’s St Austell Brewery will produce FREE BEER (version 3.2), launching at Tate St Ives, as part of the exhibition “social systems” organised by ProjectBase and taking place across the county.
The new Cornish FREE BEER will be brewed with Cornish spring water from the Brewery’s private well and created with premium Maris Otter barley, grown locally in Cornish fields.
Tate St Ives, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate modern will have the new beer available for sale until September and will launch FREE BEER with a challenge to the ‘grey matter’ when ProjectBase hosts the FREE BEER Cornish International All-Comers Pub Quiz Challenge on Sunday 8 July at 7.30pm at Tate St Ives.
The beer will also be for sale in pubs, restaurants and hotels across Devon and Cornwall and at the St Austell Brewery Visitor Centre and online at www.staustellbreweryshop.co.uk

Photo: Ian Kingsnorth
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Shortfilm made from the opening at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco. Free Beer 3.0 was a part of the exhibition “Radical software” curated by Will Bradley. This video was made by Patrick Wilkinson.