Nexus offers patrons unique opportunity to invest in expansion of Blue Smokehouse

The announcement that Nexus Brewery was seeking investors in expanding its Blue Smokehouse location seemed to catch some folks by surprise in the craft beer community. There were quite a few who told us that they were afraid it was a last-ditch effort to keep the company afloat.

Last week, I sat down with owner Ken Carson to learn more about what is going on, why nobody should panic, and how people with more money than me can jump on board as investors.

“This one struck me (as) interesting in that it was a community-type deal that was just like group funding,” Carson said, referring to the large number of past Kickstarter and GoFundMe efforts by breweries. “It probably is not as prevalent as it used to be, but a few years ago it was really popular — group funding where a brewery could open up and have a project they want to do or something like that, and pe

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