Pico Craft Group

Hilco Global is pleased to present a unique opportunity to acquire a portfolio of intellectual property and related assets developed by PicoBrew, an early innovator in automated brewing, connected beverage appliances, fermentation monitoring, recipe-control software, and small-batch beverage production.

The PicoBrew platform was designed to bring precision, repeatability, and software-enabled control to beverage preparation across home and professional beer making, coffee brewing, and spirits distillation. The technology integrated digitally controlled fluid handling, heating, pumping, ingredient management, brewing workflows, and connected software to support appliance-based beverage production.

• 17 active U.S. patents and patent applications
• Supporting assets including engineering and design documents, product concepts, know-how, and inventory

PicoBrew, founded in 2010, was a pioneer in beer homebrewing, creating the world’s first automatic all-grain homebrewing appliance. The company’s combination of early innovation and quality solidified it as a leader in the space and led to a peak revenue of over $9.7 million in 2017. With this foundation, Pico expanded its product offerings, eventually offering a suite of 10+ innovative products including:

For strategic buyers, the assets may offer a foundation for entry or expansion into automated beverage preparation, smart countertop appliances, connected kitchen hardware, craft brewing technology, fermentation monitoring, and adjacent beverage or extraction applications.

• Broad beverage relevance. Technology extends beyond beer into coffee, kombucha, spirits, fermentation management, extraction, and infusion.
• Multiple user segments. Potential relevance across consumer, enthusiast, craft, taproom, pilot-production, and commercial environments.
• Established product heritage. Platforms include Zymatic, Pico / Pico C, Z Series, PicoFerm and PicoStill.
• Extension and licensing potential. The portfolio may support new product development, defensive positioning, licensing, or strategic adjacency expansion.

The available portfolio includes 17 active patent records across multiple families. Core technology areas include:

Hilco Global is seeking non-binding indications of interest to acquire the assets of PicoBrew. Interested parties should reach out to Hilco Global at [email protected] to obtain a nondisclosure agreement for access to a virtual data room with additional information.