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Open Source Craft Brewery

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Re: Open Source Craft Brewery

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One the of co-founders here (George). I totally agree with you here. One of the challenges we have is just the pure amount of information a real business has and the realities of getting that information shared. We piloted most of the beers on a custom built 15 gallon system and in the future many new beers maybe be "designed" on the bigger 15bbl system. The 15 gallon system is bigger than most homebrewers use and go…

I'd be very interested in hearing about how you secured funding for the brewhouse and the logistics that go into running a brewery startup much more so than hearing about recipe design. It seems like the overhead to get a brewery started is incredibly high and I'd love to hear blog posts of how they were overcome much like many of the internet startups do here on HN.

The Brew Strong podcast had a series of episodes on the process of opening a brewery, including regulatory, financing, etc.

http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/Brew-Strong/Page-4

Re: Open Source Craft Brewery

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I was hoping it was going to be a fully open sourced start up. Be able to see the books, invoices/purchase orders, etc etc. But the beer recipes would be a great start!

Hey llamataboot, we have a bunch of things on our list to share and I promise its more than just beer recipes. A lot of it we have to work through since our business is so regulated and deals with a lot of 3rd party partners. I do appreciate you even mentioning the type of things you are interested in. I'll make sure to keep track of your feedback and see what we can do in the future to open some of those items up as…

Mostly I'm just glad we have another brewer in the TC! Will be great to see where you all go with the transparency idea though!
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