BrewDog Sold Fans Equity in the Company for $100 Million. That Stock Might Now Be Worthless.

BrewDog Sold Fans Equity in the Company for $100 Million. That Stock Might Now Be Worthless.

Beware, consumer-investors, the promises of companies that claim to be upending the system or casting off the shackles of the old order. You may think you’re getting in on the ground floor of a business venture that cares more about average people than some soulless corporation, only to find out that your favorite “renegade” businessman actually just dreams of … cashing in by building a soulless corporation. It’s a tale as old as time, and not o…

As BrewDog’s Rise and Fall Nears an Anticlimactic End, 'Punks' Are Left Holding the Bag

This past Saturday, Sky News reported that BrewDog had hired a bank to help it sell itself off, with the British broadcaster reporting the company’s board was hoping to set “a quickfire deadline for indicative offers” from would-be buyers. Among the many questions this bombshell brewing-industry news has triggered, one looms large for your humble Hop Take columnist. What took so long? Five years ago, a source contacted me about some ads he’d see…