Barrel Backers

@adamrivette neat concept

@adamleidhecker Thanks Adam, great name! :)

@bentossell i think its not the internet! they have to many images or displayed beer per page! the concept is realy nice!! love it

@bentossell Thanks Ben - it's definitely an idea you can drink to! A little about us, we're a crowdfunding platform for delicious craft beers and we are currently focused on working with established brewers that are tough to find locally. The homebrewing scene is where most of the "greats" got their start but we're not in that space yet! As we exist currently, people can back campaigns for the beers they want delivered and go one step further by voting for beers they want to see featured in the future. In short, we put this together because we felt people should be able to rally around the great beers they want to experience. If a beer campaign gets enough interest, we work with partners to place orders and get the beer delivered to our campaign backers. For those that want impressive beers sent to their office or home from month-to-month, it's easy to sign up for a subscription and we take care of the rest! Thanks for the quick feedback - I completely agree with you that visualizing the breweries is an important part of the backing process -we do our best to chat with our featured brewmasters and tell some of their story on the brewery page. Still plenty of room for improvement there and we'll look into how we can highlight more of their story and kit moving forward. Also a good call on the internal review system! Coming out the gate we've defaulted to the major rating communities so people can get a sense of where the beers are landing reputation-wise and we also have some established beer reviews people can check out if they click the more info button on a beer. A lot of us are interested in tasting delicious and complex beers from around the country but there is often no way to do so without traveling to a specific brewery's region. The Barrel Backers platform is designed to get you involved and bring some of these great beers to your doorstep. Always great to have new folks joining the community and telling us which beers they want to see featured in the future. I'm digging into the load-time issue now and we're excited to be Hunted!

@jrdbacosta @bentossell Thanks João - it's image heavy for sure! I always get thirsty whenever I hit that page :) We're working on ways to speed things up with some pagination and improved design in the near future. Glad to hear that you love the concept - thanks!

@lauralynnz That's a pretty cool idea and a new way of looking at things. I like the way that sounds but I also wouldn't want to lose the path to their rich collection of reviews. They've all been around for years so there's a ton of great comments there. I wonder if there is a cool way to do both!