quote: Originally posted by slowrunner77 Can it be done? Undercover Alesworks is in the process of changing their name due to legal pressure from Lagunitas (Undercover Shutdown Ale)...so chances are they will be called something different (possibly Spy Craft Ales) in 2013. When that happens, whats the best way to go about changing whats already in the system and adding new beers to the same brewery after the change??

Marble City in Knoxville changed its name to Saw Works after a legal battle with a Marble Something brewery in the southwest. Saw Works is still called Marble City in our Vault. Point is that we do need to figure this out for at least two cases now. Not really helping, just piling on!

For a brewery that changes name, I wouldn't want to see an alias. I believe this has happened in the past and we wrote in the brewery description that it changed from name X to name Y on date Z. Plus any other info that would be useful in explaining what happened. It's very unlikely that someone will make a search for an old brewery name, unless they are trying to add ratings to the site that they recorded in the past.

So, theoretically, if they change their name to Spy Craft, Spy Craft gets a separate page than Undercover, with a note on one or both? So one page would, again theoretically, have an Undercover IPA, and the other a Spy Craft IPA, though they are the same beer? Or would each individual beer under the old place be aliased to the new name (ie-all Undercover IPA ratings aliased to Spy Craft IPA)?

quote: quote: Originally posted by Flashpro For a brewery that changes name, I wouldn't want to see an alias. I believe this has happened in the past and we wrote in the brewery description that it changed from name X to name Y on date Z. Plus any other info that would be useful in explaining what happened. It's very unlikely that someone will make a search for an old brewery name, unless they are trying to add ratings to the site that they recorded in the past.

quote: Originally posted by FoamDome Marble City in Knoxville changed its name to Saw Works after a legal battle with a Marble Something brewery in the southwest. Saw Works is still called Marble City in our Vault. Point is that we do need to figure this out for at least two cases now. Not really helping, just piling on!

This was done for a Canadian brewery (before I joined BeerPal). Glenora Springs Brewery --> Barley Days Brewery The name of the brewery was changed, and in the description it says "Formerly known as....": The old beer names were maintained and aliased to the new name under the new brewery name. Seems to work pretty seamlessly.

quote: Originally posted by cyrenaica The old beer names were maintained and aliased to the new name under the new brewery name. Seems to work pretty seamlessly.

quote: Originally posted by cyrenaica This was done for a Canadian brewery (before I joined BeerPal). Glenora Springs Brewery --> Barley Days Brewery The name of the brewery was changed, and in the description it says "Formerly known as....": The old beer names were maintained and aliased to the new name under the new brewery name. Seems to work pretty seamlessly.