Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/27
By: Chung Jung-feng and Elaine Hou

Taipei, July 27 (CNA) A “smart” home cider brewer developed by a Taiwanese startup

From Kickstarter website.

has been well-received on the global project crowdfunding website Kickstarter, collecting more than US$33,000 shortly after the project was launched on the platform, according to the startup team.

Alchema, a startup that aims to make craft cider at home easy, launched the project on Kickstarter July 26 to promote its smart cider brewer, said Alchema Vice President Lin Po-fu (林柏甫).

The team’s original target was to collect US$80,000 within 45 days, but to the team’s surprise, more than US$33,000 was collected just within one day of the launch of the project, Lin said.     [FULL  STORY]