Why this award-winning Colorado brewery wants people to invest in its business at a time when the beer industry is struggling

Westbound & Down Brewing’s public offering seeks to raise $1.24 million at $2.25 per share

Crowdfunding campaigns are nothing new in Colorado’s craft beer industry. Dozens of breweries have raised money on platforms like Kickstarter and GoFundMe to finance everything from startup costs to equipment purchases to emergency relief. In return for donations of $50 or $100 or $250, participants received perks from free beer and t-shirts to brewery tours and other swag.

What Lafayette-based Westbound & Down Brewing is doing with its crowdfunding campaign, though, is something different — and it will cost supporters a lot more.

In April, Westbound & Down began seeking investments through a type of public offering called “regulation crowdfunding.” The brewery wants to raise up to $1.24 million to increase beer production fourfold, expand its distribution footprint, and eventually open new brewpubs, including one in Denver. For a minimum of $735.75, anyone can buy shares in the 10-year-old company — at $2.25 each — and support its future plans.

The public offering, now live through a company called DealMaker, comes at a time when the craft beer industry is struggling...

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