{"id":44136,"date":"2015-09-17T00:31:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T23:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=44136"},"modified":"2021-05-19T05:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T04:40:44","slug":"james-brown-beer52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/james-brown-beer52\/","title":{"rendered":"James Brown: Beer52"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>James Brown, 25<br>\n<\/b><b>Company: <\/b>Beer52<br>\n<b>Web: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beer52.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.beer52.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beer52 will be a familiar name to Startups readers, having already featured twice in the <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2015\/28-beer52\/\">Startups 100 index<\/a> and winning our overall Business of the Year at the Startups Awards 2014. Impressive, but even more so considering founder and <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/young-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2014\/\">Young Entrepreneur of the Year<\/a> James Brown has achieved all of these accolades by the tender age of 25.<\/p>\n<p>An idea brewed up during a Harley-Davidson road trip from Edinburgh to Portugal, Brown wanted to share the array of delicious but little known craft beers he&rsquo;d sampled on route with the world. In 2013, after securing an initial &pound;20,000 investment, he started Beer52 with the support of fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/fraser-doherty\/\">Young Gun Fraser Doherty<\/a> &ndash; a subscription service sending customers handpicked beers from over 12,000 global microbreweries.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later and the company is said to be the UK&rsquo;s biggest craft beer club with more than 10,000 members and turnover in excess of &pound;2.5m last year. Now backed by &pound;200,000 of crowd and angel investment, Brown hopes to launch a new community based app and hit 20,000 members. With Britain&rsquo;s appetite for craft beer on the rise, a knack for sourcing &ldquo;the world&rsquo;s best beers&rdquo;, and a talented young entrepreneur at the helm, Beer52 looks set for great things. Watch this space.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]James Brown, 25 Company: Beer52 Web: www.beer52.com Beer52 will be a familiar name to Startups readers, having already featured twice in the Startups 100 index and winning our overall Business of the Year at the Startups Awards 2014. 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