Buy a drink?

BeerNut

Scottish Brewery BrewDog went public today. You can buy a share for £230, which doesn't get you much in the short term, other than 20% off in their online shop.

Closer to home, the Porterhouse's Dingle Distillery is courting investors at the moment. They're offering "Founding Father" investors

a Founding Fathers Cask of whiskey for €1 (not including duty and/or VAT). Ownership of such a cask confers the honour of being a Founding Father. The owner's name will be handstencilled on the cask and inscribed on a plaque in the visitor's centre. Founding Fathers are welcome to visit the distillery at any time and will be encouraged to taste their casks once a year in order to monitor development. Indeed, it is possible to be present in the distillery when your cask is being distilled.

And there is a choice of cask available including port, madeira, oloroso and bourbon. This price is based on your whiskey maturing in a 250 litre cask, a hogshead, at cask strength 63%.
Our distilleries preference is a sherry cask, but you may prefer your spirit to mature in either a bourbon, madeira, oloroso or port cask.
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As a Founding Father you will be invited to our annual party but why not distil your whiskey with our distiller.
A purchase includes a 4 star house and within that week you will brew and distil your spirit.

All for a meagre investment of €100,000. Start looking down the back of the sofa now.

dereko1969

If you're actually thinking of buying the Brewdog shares just be aware that you can't do it online unless you're in the UK, you have to do it old school by downloading the form and sending it off with a cheque or bank draft.

noby

Not exactly world changing. A bit of an anti-climax from all the hype.

BeerNut

Well, that's hype for you...

(One sort of hype, anyway. BrewDog used to have a cask bitter called Hype, and very good it was too.)