[ohfunkyeah]

One the of co-founders here (George). I totally agree with you here. One of the challenges we have is just the pure amount of information a real business has and the realities of getting that information shared. We piloted most of the beers on a custom built 15 gallon system and in the future many new beers maybe be "designed" on the bigger 15bbl system. The 15 gallon system is bigger than most homebrewers use and going bidirectional from 5 gallon to 15 bbl is a bit more complicated than just linearly scaling the recipes. I would like to add a feature to the website that lets you choose the batch size but just need to find the time to do it! Long story short we are still committed to being open source and feel free to keep us honest on that front. If there are particular things you interested in please don't hesitate to contact us directly.

[debaserab2]

I'd be very interested in hearing about how you secured funding for the brewhouse and the logistics that go into running a brewery startup much more so than hearing about recipe design.

It seems like the overhead to get a brewery started is incredibly high and I'd love to hear blog posts of how they were overcome much like many of the internet startups do here on HN.

[ryanhuff]

The Brew Strong podcast had a series of episodes on the process of opening a brewery, including regulatory, financing, etc.

http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/Brew-Strong/Page-4

[jbondeson]

Completely understand. I think simple percentages for the grain bill would go a long way to showing the character of the beer. Personally I've never understood the desire to clone a commercial brew, but it's certainly fun to riff off of established recipes or to get some inspiration for a new brew.

Next time I'm in the MN I'll have to swing by.