Radio Brews News

Over the past 6 months Brews News has received at least one request to promote a crowd funding scheme covering everything from a "precision tool for your perfectly crafted beers" aka a bottle opener to "a draft system that serves any beer, fresh from the tap, anywhere you want it". We also recently received a release about the "world’s first smartphone-controlled home-brewing machine". Today we received an announcement from Yeastie Boys advising that next year they will be crowd funding expansion into Europe. I have mixed feelings about the whole crowd funding thing. On one hand, it is an excellent way for new, small and non-traditional businesses to leverage the consumer demand and passion for what they are doing. On the other hand, there is an element of hype and hubris creeping in to the craft beer world that, when combined with a new, loosely regulated funding model, has the potential for disaster. With Yeastie Boys' Stu McKinlay being a great observer of the craft industry and always willing to have a fr