Richard Fisher likes beer. He brews his own ale at home and once considered buying a brewery. But he never expected he might lose £12,000 investing in Brewdog.
For the former small business adviser from Suffolk, taking a small stake in the upstart beer company from north east Scotland seemed an opportunity too good to miss.
"Maverick, independent, to a certain extent rebellious - it was all good stuff," he said.
Richard, 58, is one of more than 200,000 investors who put money into the firm's "Equity for Punks" scheme.
Typically they spent about £500 on shares costing £20-30 each but Richard, seeing the firm's rapid expansion, invested £12,000 in the hope of a good return.
