Gompyo Beer threw away 1,500 tons of healthy beer due to conflict

Conflicts between trademark holders and beer producers continue over products that were once very popular as craft beers.

In the end, over 1,000 tons of beer was thrown away.

At one beer manufacturing plant, 1,500 tons of beer is discarded into a wastewater treatment plant.

The stored liquor made for the ‘Gompyo Wheat Beer’ product was not put in cans and was discarded.

‘Gompyo Wheat Beer’, which led the craft beer craze by selling nearly 60 million cans since its launch in 2020, was owned by Daehan Flour and manufactured by Seven Broy.

However, after the three-year trademark contract ended, a dispute began over the beer making recipe.

Beer manufacturer Seven Broy claims that Daehan Flour passed its self-developed beer recipe to another beer company with which it signed a new contract.

It took half a year from development to manufacturing, but a new product with similar ingredients was released 43 days after the contract ended.

Daehan Flour Mills refuted that it was speculation that they were making a recipe based solely on the ingredient analysis table they received, and that they had never provided it.

There is also an ongoing battle between the two companies over the popular beer can design.

Seven Broy announced that it plans to report Daehan Flour Mills to the Korean Intellectual Property Office for violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, and it appears that the right and wrong will be resolved at the Korean Intellectual Property Office.