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Welcome, everyone, to the DC Beer Show. We are @DCBeer

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across social media. Mike Stein, What's in your stein

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this lovely evening? Well, tonight in my Drink Proud

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Arlington, The Brew Shop Willy Becker, I have

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Fonio Rising Pale Ale brewed

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with ancient West African super grain, Fonio.

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Very exciting. Have to mention Garrett Oliver, of course, one of

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the founding members of the Michael James Jackson Foundation,

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which we're super excited to,

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be able to work with. We'll talk about that a little

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bit later in the show. Brandy, what are you

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enjoying? What I had

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previously enjoyed right before we logged on And

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I honestly probably shouldn't have consumed this so fast, but it

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was nearly impossible not to. It is

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a fantastic beer. Beautiful,

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simple, robust. You know what I'm talking about?

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The robust porter from Port City. Holy

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moly. It is you know, for a

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porter, you wouldn't think that you would drink it that fast, but I I

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would, bet money on me any day. I I have

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to Port City. I have faith in you, Brandy. And as Jacob

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Scoopsburg always says, two seasons in DC, Port

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City Brewing Company optimal wit season, and Port City Brewing Company porter

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season. Today waiting for now. Beautiful. I see

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that pineapple and PCBC logo on your beanie brandy.

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Represents. For our friends out there in podcast land,

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you should know that in DC, we had both Port City Whitt and Port City

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Porter weather today, hitting 59 in the District Of Columbia. And

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then getting down chilly, we're gonna get some snow, but no accumulation. We'll

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see what happens today, Friday. And as we move through

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the weekend, what's happening this weekend, friends?

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Thank you, weatherman Mike Stein.

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We need a green backdrop. That's right. Yeah. Mike in front of it,

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pointing at the breweries and the beer. Yeah. We can do the green screen.

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It's not gonna be, like, really all that nice tomorrow.

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But inside metrobar's enclosed and heated

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patio, you will see us. You will see

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black owned breweries, black owned beer brands. You'll

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see Charles and Courtney from the Black Brew Movement, and we're gonna be

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pouring a whole bunch of black owned beer. It'll be for a

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good cause. It'll be a good time. And if you like

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IPAs, you're in luck, which brings me to what's in

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my stein tonight in my tulip from

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Wheatland Spring to honor the return of pandas

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to DC. Just went on, display. You can go heckle them

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like I do, because they're not as cool as red pandas, and they

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suck up all the oxygen from the other charismatic

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fauna. I've got, Air and Space, the

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modern West Coast IPA from City State, one of my

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favorite IPAs in the city. Just real nice

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classic, crisp, clean West Coast IPA. It's got a

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little bit of bitterness to it. It tastes as it should.

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So, Greg, Meth, good work. Shout out to mister Goonasingh,

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better known as Meth, who made wonderful IPA

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at Atlas, and now he's making great IPA at City State.

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Honestly, it's it always surprises me how toasty

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and warm it is in that little metro bar

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encasements, that we get to be in on these

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chilly winter days because we do the 12 beers of Christmas.

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And I love the Cheers and Beers Black Brewers Tasting

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event. And then there was a line out the door last year,

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so it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a good time.

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And of course, it happens during Black History Month.

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We have a lot of stuff going on this month, actually, that I'm

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looking forward to because I'll be heading to Denizen's on the

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twenty second for the Winter Cask Classic.

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I'll see you there, Brandy. I will see you there. Mike Stein, will I

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see you there? My plan is to get my ass to

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the Cask Classic. Nice.

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It's always a slam packed event, and I'm I'm jazzed about

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it. But, our beer share this month is at Blue

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Jacket at the very end, the very last Sunday

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of the month. So we're going to round out

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February in the nicest way that we can possibly think

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of doing. I know there's a lot of chaos and unpleasantness

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in the world and US right now, but we're we're gonna

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give you beer. Right proper,

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Shaw has actually a deal for you in terms of

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the chaos and unpleasantness. They,

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earlier this week, launched a program where you can

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pay it forward and buy a beer for a

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laid off or perhaps put on some sort of

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administrative leave federal worker.

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You can do it via their Toast. That's their point of service

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ordering system, but I think a a pretty, pretty cool thing to do.

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I also think that, although it will be too

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late for this podcast, DC nine, the nightclub

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and live music venue on Ninth Street, also kind

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of corridor, is gonna do $2 drinks for

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feds. So this is not quite like a,

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government shutdown furlough situation, where Jose Andres

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is gonna come in and feed folks. But I believe

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that there there will be some deals. It's cool to see, like, the

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bar, brewery, restaurant community step up. There

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are an awful lot of federal workers, obviously, in

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the area. So you can pay it forward at Wright Proper

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Shaw, buy them a beer. They say thank you.

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I say thank you. I wanna say thank

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you to all of the fantastic women that

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showed up to last weekend's Women's Brew Culture Club.

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We headed to Mystique Brewing in Baltimore, which is

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Baltimore's newest brewery. We had the loveliest of time.

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As you all know, our dear friend Amber is, has moved to

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Baltimore, and she is now slinging beer at

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Mystique. And we we had the best time. There

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were five or six new women who showed up, like Christie,

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Corley, some of her friends. And it was it was

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so enjoyable seeing so many new folks and

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I just announced this morning on the socials

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that the women's root culture club is so

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is is expanding, and we are now

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including the Baltimore branch. So Women's Brew Culture

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Club Baltimore branch, which our dear, wonderful, amazing,

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original Women's Brew Culture Club member, Amber Paunchy,

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will be heading. So you'll see more events. So

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I'll still be doing my monthly events, here in the DMV,

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and, Amber's just going to be adding on to it and being the

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amazing person that she is. It's so exciting to

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see, Women's Brew Culture Club expansion into

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Baltimore. We love to see it, Brandy. Wanted to

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mention that in addition to the February,

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the day before the Denizens Cask Classic,

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Friday, February twenty first. My,

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beverage research firm, Lost Lagers, is actually having a Maertzen,

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Senate Maertzen tapping at Right Proper Brookland.

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So come on out Friday, February 21. Pete

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Jones, my colleague in Lost Lagers, and I are gonna talk about mersin, semersin,

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how it was historically served because in

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1933, which is what the recipe is based on, a recipe from

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1933, they would actually age the beer six months before

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tapping it and that's exactly what we did. Kept the keg cold,

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cold chain unbroken. So come see me and Pete Jones. Brie will

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be pouring our wonderful friend Brie at Right

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Proper, Brooklyn. Now, I know there's a lot

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of disappointments and chaos and sadness in the world,

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but one thing that I love is our DC beer shares.

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So if you head on over to

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patreon.com/dcbeer, you

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can join and support us. Come have a wonderful conversation with myself,

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Jake, and Brandy. I know at last month's share at Other Half, I had a

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brilliant convo about some of the best beer cities in the world. We talked

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about, you know, other countries where you can go to sample,

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beer, what the culture's like in those countries. And those kind of conversations are only

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available to Patreon supporters. We so appreciate you

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supporting here by giving us your ear now. Come see us on

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Patreon and then see us IRL at the next DC Beer Share, which

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is in at Blue Jacket in February. That's

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gonna be the busiest weekend of

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Febriere because the 21st, Lost Lagers,

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22nd, Denizens, because you know all the

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industry folks go to Denizens for the Cask Classic because it's not just Denizens

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beer, it's every it's like all the local brewers beer.

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Beer, Maryland beer. Yeah. Yeah. is gonna be there. Oh my

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gosh. Let's go. So excited. And then the beer share on the twenty third.

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So everyone, you you prepared for this for

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with dry dry January. So it's time. It's your

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time to shine. This is what you've been training for. You've you've

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the moment you've been training. Yes. You know, I don't

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I I wanted so badly to talk about my women's food

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culture or my women in craft beer panel

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that is happening on March 4 at Lost Generation.

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I have two panels in March, and I know it's not March yet, but I

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also know February is the shortest month of the year. And I don't wanna

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take away from any of our black history or

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black owned breweries, people of color and beer. I do not

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wanna take away from them. But I am over

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the moon excited because on the March

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4 panel at Lost Generation, we

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have so many amazing women on the

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panel. We have Annie McGinnis, who is actually coming all the way

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from Missouri. She is the owner co owner of Vine Street

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Brewing, who the fir Missouri's first black owned brewery,

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and she will actually be also a representative of the National

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Black Growers Association. They are sending her out here.

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I feel so honored, and everyone at DC

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Beer, we are so excited. We're talking with Courtney of the Black Brew

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Movement and maybe trying to get a collab

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beer going on while everyone is here. I'm really hoping,

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fingers crossed, I have a call with Courtney. So, Breeze Galindo,

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is coming. It's gonna be not only in a wonderful evening of

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conversation and supporting women in beer, but that evening, we

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are going to be holding a fundraiser, a silent auction

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for the Michael James Jackson Foundation, which is a grant based

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organization that raises funds for

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scholarships and education for black,

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indigenous, and people of color in the brewing and distilling industry.

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And as I said this earlier on my on the post,

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we need that right now more than ever.

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We need hope. We need things to keep us going, and

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we at DC beer are always supportive. Speaking

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of black brewers, we have a special guest

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tonight. He cannot make it to metrobar, but his beer will be

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there. Mike and I sat down with Sheldon Goins of

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Black Beauty Brewery. Sheldon, welcome back to the show. Thank

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you for having me again. Yeah. So we had you gone

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probably a little bit over two years ago, maybe, like,

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two and a half years ago or so. Right.

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What's new? What's new is is, Exact Grail

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that came out last week and just making

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new recipes as we speak. Just trying to stay different with

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my, with our beer. Alright. Let's talk about the new

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one. So it's called Exotic Grail. It's a

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golden kiwi IPA, and

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it is seven one 7.1%. That's the highest.

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One? No. 7.1. Okay. I am not there yet. No.

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Alright. Alright. I was gonna say. It's a it's an American

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IPA. It's my first IPA I've ever done.

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And so me, personally, I think it tastes amazing, and I'm

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hoping everyone else does too. In the beginning, I was a little nervous

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because I've never made an IPA before.

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IPA? I'm like, I don't know. I thought that there's a

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lot of them out here already, but I'm like, you know what? I might as

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well have at least one. So here y'all go. I hope

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everyone enjoys it because I love adding fruit to

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stuff or tasting I mean, we're gonna get a chance to try

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it at metrobar Saturday.

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I know, Sheldon, you're not gonna be there, but DC beer is gonna be pouring

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this beer. And we we might be slipping, you know we'll sneak a

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couple sips on the side. Alright. But we wanna

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take it back to the beginning. Right. You

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launched with a Saison.

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stout. It's not, I think, typical

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to see a beer brand of brewery go with those

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two things and then do the IPA.

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So what's, like, what's the reception been like with regards to the

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Saison and then the white stout? So the Saison,

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that's been the crowd favorite with our company.

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different, people are really hesitant until they actually tried

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it. But after a while, I was thinking,

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like, you know what? I will just have this beer come out, like,

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seasonal instead of all year round since it's a it's a

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stout. So I'm just gonna stick with the saison being all year round even

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though it's considered to be a summer or warm weather

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beer. I made it so that you can drink it all year

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round. And like you said, it's

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unorthodox the way I did things, but I

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just wanna stay true to what I believe in this as being

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different and just going with what I believe in. I feel like there's,

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like, a little degree of difficulty to this, especially with regards to, like,

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educating the consumer and maybe even educating

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beer bars and stores that would sell it. Not

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necessarily about a Saison, which I think is

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somewhat of a more known quantity,

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but a white stout in particular.

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Yeah. That's an it's an interesting one. That's

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the beer of yours that I liked the most. Like,

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that's the one that jumped out to me, and I feel like I'm not that

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you know? I may I may be in the minority there,

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but what like, what was it like going and, like, you

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know, trying to put those two beers into distribution,

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into stores, into bars, into restaurants, into the hands of people?

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So for the Saison, since I was the first one that launched back in, I'm

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gonna say, October, November '2 thousand '20 '2, It

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wasn't that difficult because people knew what a saison was, and it's

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just since it was a new kid on the block, people were like, oh, alright.

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But orange? I like but orange. But with the saison, that's

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different, but let's give it a try. And it was the iMac hit. Now

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with the white chocolate, that had to grow on people. And

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after it was all sold out, that's when I heard

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a whole bunch of noise and everybody like, where's this white chocolate? Where did

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it go? I'm like, y'all didn't give me all of that when it

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was out and everything. So now y'all love it? Okay. I

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had to convince everybody because a white chocolate blonde style, you don't

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hear or never seen that before. I've only

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one person told me that they've heard about it before, but that's over, like, in,

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in California. But that was once. And

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when I convinced people to try it, they're like, oh, I thought it was gonna

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be different. I'm like, no. All you gotta do is listen to me. Just have

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a open mind to try new things. I'm not gonna set you up. It's just

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because I made it. I'm not gonna do that to you. We appreciate

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you taking, your customers, consumer, and in this case,

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fans into mind. Funnily enough, I did

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see a blonde stout once in Michigan. And

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then in beer history, you know, there was a time where stout meant

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strong beer, which just meant anything like over 4%.

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Percent. Beer beer would be like two to three and stout meant four or

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5% ABV. But you've got a new beer

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coming down the pike. I was hoping you'd be able to tell us, a little

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bit more about exotic grail. Really, really interesting. Tell us what's

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going on with Exotic Grail and where people can find it.

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So Exotic Grail just came out last

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week. I planned this so that it came out, like, the

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February. It's been put because it's

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been in the planning stages for, like, a couple months now, and I was very

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anxious for it to come out. Because it took me a long time

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to get it right. It's because of the golden kiwi.

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It's a little sweeter than the regular kiwi,

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but since the puree that I use, it's very

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potent. So if you add too much in there, it's gonna just

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destroy the beer. If you add too little, you're not gonna really taste as

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much. So I had to find that in between along with the, balance with the

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hops that I use. And so once the final product came, I'm like, alright.

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This is exactly what I wanted it to taste like.

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And, like, it's not overly hoppy, and

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it's not less hoppy to the point where you won't know it's IPA. It's,

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like, it's just right. So it's, in my opinion,

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it's pretty tropical. I tend to

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like fruity beers, but I still

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wanted some bitterness to it as well.

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And you can taste hints of, like,

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pineapple and mango in there as well. So hints, so I'm not

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gonna just throw the whole fruit basket at you. And,

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yes, 7.1%. That's the strongest

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beer I've made so far. So, I mean, maybe in the future, I

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might go up to, like, I don't know, maybe, like, nine. Maybe

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10, like Jake was talking about earlier.

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Yeah. But, yeah, that's, that's my newest baby right

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there. That's exciting. It's great to see new products rolling

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off the line and, continued growth from from Black Beauty

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Brewery. I wanted to ask you, you describe

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yourself as Bowie's first, black owned brewery.

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And, when we first had you on the show, which was 2022,

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you talked to our, co host Jordan, and you

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said, you know, my brewery's in my basement. Meaning, you

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know, you trial so many batches of home home brew before,

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you know, bringing them to market. I'm wondering what what is a

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long time in your home brew setup? You know, had you piloted,

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batches of exotic grail where you use too much kiwi, not enough

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you know, is that you got the Goldilocks ratio or it's just right.

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So for golden grail, it took months. I wanna say, yeah, but

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months. Maybe, like,

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like, three or four batches

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worth. A lot of money, went through.

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And, yes, there have been times where I put too much puree in there,

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and it was just abysmal. I had to dump the whole thing.

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And then the last time I made it, I was like, alright. There

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we go. So use this amount of ounces,

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and this is my hop. So I'm like, alright. I'm a keep it right there.

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Let me get this to Oliver so they can scale it up

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and then see what comes out. And they did a dang thing.

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Nice. But they always do. That's wonderful. Can we expect it in

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cans and kegs or will it just be in in package?

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Starting out, it'll be in cans and in, Sixtols.

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Yes. Okay. Wonderful. When we last spoke to you in

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2022 Mhmm. And you had mentioned that, you

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had spent some Yeah. Yeah.

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November 2022. So, you know, three years because it's

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'25, but really more like two years. But,

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you had mentioned, you're working in Navy Yard and you had had hit some happy

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hours at Buffalo Wild Wings. And it got me thinking at one point in time,

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Buffalo Wild Wings was the biggest draft seller in

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like, the number one draft account across the nation

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was BWW. And I just thought that was

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kind of interesting. You mentioned your love for, a golden monkey,

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which was a huge, you know, just blockbuster

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for victory. It really, you know, took them from

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whatever, 20,000 barrels to 200,000 barrels

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a year, something insane like that. I'm wondering how you're

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seeing growth. You know, are you charting a course? Have you experienced

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huge growth? Do you feel like there's been shrinking, growth

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with with barrelage? Like, how many barrels do you brew per year? What's what are

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you seeing in the market with Black Beauty Brewery? As of right

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now, I mean, of course, in the beginning, it was a lot better. But now

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that the economy is I haven't seen it

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skyrocket really much of anything. Kinda

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had to adapt and,

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I guess, adapt my scaling. And so

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and that's that's that's definitely been a task. But,

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we're getting through it because the beer industry is not a easy

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game to play. Yeah. You always

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gotta adapt to it. But it's it's interesting

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to see how DC either is similar to the national trends or is

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completely different. We have our our show

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supporter, the brew shop in Arlington, and they had sold,

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a bloody orange saison and, white chocolate,

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the the blonde stout. And they both did really well, and I I was

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very thrilled to see that. But, you know, I know

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from being friends with somebody brewery owners, sometimes you have to pull from markets to

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feed other markets when there's demand. Do you see yourself

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pulling from some spaces to go to more spaces? Or do you feel pretty

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confident in the amount of beer you're producing to keep the

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market sort of saturated with with your products? And I'm

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pretty confident. I mean, at most, I'll probably just have to up the

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batch that I make. Because right now, I'm doing the 20 barrels,

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per round, but I can always go up to 40. But, right

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now, I'm just playing it safe, but I think that's one of my

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downfalls. I just don't wanna overcompensate them.

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Like, okay. So when I do all this extra beer, just sitting around,

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like, I want there to I wanna see the need for

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it. So if it's needed, I'm like, alright. Cool. Let's go make some

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more, not just making a lot and just sitting there in the corner collecting

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dust. It's because they wanna fill up their store. Because there's

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a lot of beer out here y'all already know. So it's Yep. Easy to

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get lost on on the shelf Yeah. Or in the fridge. Yeah. No.

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That's a really good point you raise. You wanna see the need for your

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beer. You don't want it collecting dust. We know because we're out there in

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the in the stores checking candidates,

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seeing, you know, how far past Best Buy we're going. It's it's an

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issue. But we know we need, Black

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Beauty Brewery, a brewery, you know, that that puts, Afrocentricity

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front and center. If you are at metrobar tomorrow,

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you will see Black Beauty Brewery's products there. Where else

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should folks look for you around town or what's coming down the pike with, for

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Black Beauty? So if you wanna see the full list of where our beer is

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located, you can go on our website at

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www.blackbeautybrewery.net. And there's a whole

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list of our locations there. We're currently over

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in Delaware and DC and

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Maryland, and we're over in Tula Wines,

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Rips over in Bowie. That's our number one supporter right

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there. It's the home team right there, right down the street. Nice. I got that

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Bowie love. And, yeah, we're we're

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in a lot of, restaurants and liquor stores

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establishments. Yeah. Cool. Thank you so much,

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Sheldon. Much appreciated. We're sorry that you can't join us at metrobar

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tomorrow. But Yeah. Thank you for letting us pour your beer, and,

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here's to what's next. Thank you so much. I hope you all enjoy the

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beer. Go ahead and sip sip. Thank you so much, Sheldon. A

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reminder, we can see you all tomorrow at metrobar.

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heard, you will see us out and about pretty much everywhere

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in February. Busy, busy times in a way. The

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Brewers Association of Maryland did us a favor by, not hosting

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love thy beer. Although, you know, still a little bit bummed about

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that. The beer that Denizens brewed for it should be

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available on tap for the Cask

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Classic. But, yeah, we're at DC Beers on the socials.

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Same bat time, same bat channel in two weeks.

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And you always give a nice, like, sign off. You didn't do it.

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I like his hair, though. He got a haircut. Looks nice. Yeah.