{"id":7624,"date":"2013-04-03T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T23:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2013-04-05T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:22:43","slug":"fezziwigs-forced-to-change-name-by-boston-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2013\/04\/03\/fezziwigs-forced-to-change-name-by-boston-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fezziwig&#8217;s Forced To Change Name by Boston Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/405083_409574345728707_63223409_n.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7646\" alt=\"405083_409574345728707_63223409_n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/405083_409574345728707_63223409_n.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/405083_409574345728707_63223409_n.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/405083_409574345728707_63223409_n.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad-based brewery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fezziwigsbrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fezziwig&#8217;s Brewing Company<\/a>\u00a0posted on their Facebook page yesterday that they will soon be changing their name due to a complaint by Boston Beer Company, which produces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samueladams.com\/craft-beers\/old-fezziwig-ale\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig Ale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We here personally disagree that anyone could realistically confuse the two,&#8221; said a statement both on Facebook and on the Fezziwig&#8217;s website, &#8220;but the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees it would cost to battle out the b\/s in court means they win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fezziwig&#8217;s won&#8217;t stop producing beer, however. &#8220;What it does mean is that we have to spend a bunch of time and money rebranding that we&#8217;d have much rather spent making delicious craft beer for you all to enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fezziwig&#8217;s plans to host a &#8216;Grand Renaming Party&#8217; in May (<strong>UPDATE: Party dates are 5\/31 and 6\/1<\/strong>), \u00a0and they&#8217;ll be taking suggestions for names &#8212; ones that aren&#8217;t already in use &#8212; for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad-based brewery Fezziwig&#8217;s Brewing Company\u00a0posted on their Facebook page yesterday that they will soon be changing their name due to a complaint by Boston Beer Company, which produces Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig Ale. &#8220;We here personally disagree that anyone could realistically confuse the two,&#8221; said a statement both on Facebook and on the Fezziwig&#8217;s website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031],"class_list":{"0":"post-7624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","7":"tag-fezziwigs-brewing-company","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-1YY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}