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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 23, 2010.
Pledge $5 or more
Your name is featured prominently on our website as a token of thanks for your pledge.
Pledge $10 or more
You receive a certificate acknowledging how incredibly awesome you are to have contributed to a startup brewery, a Mystery Brewing sticker, and your name featured prominently on our website. You also receive an invitation to frequent live video chats with me on topics including beer tasting, styles, and, of course, the future of the company.
Pledge $20 or more
Same as the $10 pledge, plus a Mystery Brewing church-key bottle opener.
Pledge $50 or more
Same as the $20 pledge, plus a Mystery Brewing t-shirt, and an invitation to a Grand Unveiling party for kickstarters soon after the release of our first beer.
Pledge $75 or more
Same as the $50 pledge, plus your own fabulous Mystery Brewing tulip glass.
Pledge $100 or more
Same as the $75 pledge with an induction into the Mystery Brewing "Irregulars" - a club of supporters of the brewery that will include the opportunity to acquire special Mystery Brewing beers made specifically for the club. Homebrewer's special: Let me know that you're a homebrewer and I'll send you a 5-gallon sized, all-grain, homebrew recipe of the first beer that we release.
Pledge $500 or more
Same as the $100 pledge, but you also receive framed posters of our label art, signed by me (and probably the label artist as well). Homebrewer's special: Let me know that you're a homebrewer and I'll send you a 5-gallon sized, all-grain, homebrew recipe of each of the beers we release for a year.
Pledge $1,000 or more
Same as the $500 pledge. In addition, I go to you, where ever you are (within a day's travel of Durham, NC by any modern means), and hold a personal beer tasting of Mystery Brewing's first beer with you and a few of your friends.
Pledge $5,000 or more
Same as the $1000 pledge. Instead of a tasting, I go to you, where ever you are (within a day's travel of Durham, NC by any modern means), and hold a personal, private beer dinner with you and a few of your friends using the first four beers that Mystery Brewing produces.
Project By
Connected as Erik Lars Myers (844 friends)
I used to be an aimless wanderer. I went to college as a Math Education major, I graduated with a B.A. in Performing Arts and have been working in the IT department ever since. Then, this one magical Christmas, my mother bought me a homebrew kit and I realized this amazing love of making beer. I like to tell people that I like making beer more than I like drinking it. It's not a lie - the creative process behind making a truly terrific and singular beer is an intoxicating (heh!) mixture of science and art.
After years of telling people that I was going to start my own brewery, I decided to start working toward it and did so by getting into the industry in the only way I knew how: blogging. In March of 2009 I started a blog called Top Fermented and began writing. Since then, I’ve also gotten involved in the North Carolina Brewers Guild, doing their website and writing for them. At the same time, I started working alongside another startup brewer in a national re-launch of the site Know Your Brewer. With all of this geekery under my belt, I spoke on a panel at the Craft Brewers Conference entitled “Storytelling 2.0: Social Media is a Conversation” giving professional breweries advice on how to use social media to reach their customer base.
Now, I’ve decided that it is time to realize my dreams of brewing professionally and have started Mystery Brewing Company. Join me! There’s beer where I’m going.
