Netherlands-based Minibrew has raised $2.8 million in seed funding after completing a successful $350,000 crowdfunding campaign to bring some smarts to the home-brew process.
The Minibrew is a little keg with a big brain. When we first met the company in 2015 they offered a whiff of high tech to the brewing process, adding a monitored brew vessel and mobile app to the age-old technique of slopping a bunch of wheat, yeast, and hops together until something tasty came out. Founders Bart van de Kooij and Olivier van Oord have partnered with multiple international breweries to offer recipes for the machine and they plan on shipping the final product in Q1 2018.
The team is proud to be able to offer full control from wort to bottling.
“In terms of brewing machines that claim to deliver beer, such as ‘fully-automated home brewery’ they both forget a critical step:…