Tagged: beer

July 20, 2014 @ 6:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

There have been more than a few crowdfunding campaigns to help finance a brewery.  One of the largest equity crowdfunding campaigns ever was the Equity for Punks campaign that came from BrewDog in Scotland.  Well now the United States may have their very own iconic… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 4:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cleveland, Ohio resident Renee DeLuca has launched a crowdfunding campaign on CrowdBrewed to resurrect the New Albion Brewing Company’s iconic American ale. The project is seeking to raise $75,000 to contract-brew the original recipe. The campaign’s website reads, “The very first American Ale, New Albion… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 4:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Madison-based brewer is ready to make history! MobCraft Inc, known for polling and producing popular beer recipes, is now working through CraftFund for an equity crowdfunding campaign. CraftFund LLC was certified as Wisconsin’s very first equity crowdfunding platform under the new exemption that allows businesses… Read More

April 17, 2014 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding has just been announced in the land of the Kiwi’s, but already companies are gearing up to use the innovative methodology of capital formation. Malborough based Renaissance Brewing has recently announced they are prepping to launch a campaign to raise capital with Auckland… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sori Brewing, a Finish – Estonian startup craft brewery, is going the equity crowdfunding path to finance their small company.  Following the lead of pioneer trailblazer BrewDogs – who famously could not find money to expand their business,  the young company raised over €100,000 their first… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Michigan Invests Locally Exemption, or MILE for short, has its first potential benefactor. Tecumseh Brewing Co. will seek cash from the crowd in exchange for a revenue share in a bid to launch operations in Tecumseh, Michigan. The two cofounders, Tim Schmidt and Kyle… Read More

March 10, 2014 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding in 36 Hours, BeerBods Raises £150,000 Mostly From Customers. BeerBods is an online beer club and subscription service, based in Worcestershire, United Kingdom. They have now claimed the title of the fastest pitch to fund on Crowdcube equity crowdfunding platform. 101 investors put in… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

BeerBods, a company that delivers 12 beers to subscribers every 12 weeks, quickly raised their £100,000 crowdfunding goal in just one day and then continued over-funding hitting £150,000 in the next twelve hours. Launched in 2012, BeerBod’s original intent was to offer 15% equity in… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:04 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Like furbies and turtles toys before them, our #EquityForPunks shares sold out the week before Christmas. To all our new punks – welcome! — BrewDog (@brewdog) December 21, 2013 Our own JD Alois wasn’t kidding when he said last call. Less than 48 hours later… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

BrewDog’s investment crowdfunding campaign “Equity for Punks” is nearing a close. BrewDog has issues a last call for investors as they are down to the last 2% of shares available for this funding round. The Scottish craft brewery raised their funding amount in November to… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog is in the midst of an extremely aggressive period of growth now that the Scottish brewery has managed to raise millions of euros via equity crowdfunding raises. The latest expansion project for the brewery is a BrewDog bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo,… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog may have started a trend among Scottish breweries. Arran Brewery is now planning an equity crowdfunding raise to launch sometime this month. Arran Brewery wants to turn to the crowd to raise capital in order to fund a push that would include a hotel,… Read More

November 7, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Scottish beer craftsmen at Brewdog Brewery are currently in the midst of a £4 million equity crowdfunding campaign, offering 3.6% equity in exchange for funding from the crowd. The brewery recently announced that they have raised £3.7 million of that and the campaign is on it’s… Read More

November 6, 2013 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

First Ever “Equity” Crowdfunding Campaign for USA Brewery CrowdBrewed has announced their first equity offering for a brewery – Emerald City Beer Company (ECB) located in Seattle, Washington.   Founded in 2010, ECB is fanatical about creating a Seattle style lager.  Founder / Brewmaster Rick… Read More

October 24, 2013 @ 12:44 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve been reporting on BrewDog brewery ever since the Scottish brewery startup launched a hybrid equity/rewards crowdfunding effort in June of this year. That effort, entitled “Equity for Punks,” netted BrewDog over £1 million in capital in 24 hours. If you’re a clever canine and… Read More

October 13, 2013 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

With more than two weeks left in their crowdfunding campaign on KickstAfter, the team at PicoBrew have a solid success.  With the initial goal set at $150,000 they have more than doubled that amount.   The product has been over 3 years in development for… Read More

September 25, 2013 @ 6:49 am By JD Alois  |  

CraftFund is a niche equity crowdfunding platform focused exclusively on the craft beer and food industries. Breweries and food companies may now being building their profile pages on the CraftFund crowdfunding platform.  As CraftFund continues in their holding patter while the SEC continues to delay… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Johnathan Wakefield has been making unique craft beers since 2007.  Now he wants to take his passion to the next level and he has launched a crowdfunding campaign to achieve that dream. The J Wakefield Brewing campaign is crowdfunding on CrowdBrewed, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to beer…. Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

In just over two months Scottish brewery BrewDog has raised £3 Million on Goal of £4 Million.  Crowdfunding Round Closes in January. Craft brewery BrewDog started in 2007 with just 2 employees and a dream.  The firm was driven by two young fearless entrepreneurs determined… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Below is a brief video from Fleur Emery from Green & Pleasant, brewers of all-natural, craft-brewed lager and lemon shandy.  Fleur shares here experience with crowdfunding on Crowdcube.  Earlier this year the campaign raised over £122,000 in equity on the investment crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding campaign raised… Read More