PicoBrew’s patents are back on the market, six years after the Seattle homebrew startup’s collapse

Seattle-based PicoBrew set out to revolutionize home beer brewing with a line of machines it initially sold on Kickstarter. (PicoBrew File Photo) The patents behind PicoBrew, the Seattle startup that once promised to do for home beer what Keurig did for coffee, are up for sale again — six years after the company collapsed into receivership and after two changes of ownership. Hilco Global, an Illinois-based firm that specializes in selling intellectual property and other assets, announced this we