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Today I'm talking with Eric Robert and we are

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talking about the upcoming Fine and Dandy charity

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beer festival. I had to look that one up because

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that's a mouthful. And we're also talking about

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his new brewery that's coming up and Brew Talk,

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Eric's own podcast. How you doing? Great. Thanks

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for having me on Tracy. I really appreciate being

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here. Thank you. Now tell me about finding Dandy.

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So every year, it started back in 2016. Actually,

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I'll start right from the top. In 2016, there

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was a brewer in Windsor Essex County by the name

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of Jeffrey Craig. Unfortunately, Jeffrey was

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diagnosed with cancer. And he spent that time

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after his diagnosis deciding what he wanted to

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do He tried to quit the industry and all the

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guys banded together and they said you're not

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going anywhere. Let's let's work together So

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Jeffrey he created a beer that actually had dandelion

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in it, which is great for Cancer it has cancer

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healing properties. So Jeffrey created this this

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beer He actually tried to do it with daffodil

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at first and then learned that daffodil is actually

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not good for humans So because cancer awareness

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Daffodil month, right? So, but that's why he,

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so he ended up with the dandelion because dandelion

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does have cancer assisting properties cure. I

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don't want to say curing properties, but it.

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It's good for you. It helps. So he started the

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Fine and Dandy. He created a beer with the guys

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over at Craft Heads. He was a brewer at Walkerville

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at the time. He had quit his job at Walkerville.

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But the guys at Craft Heads, Brian and them,

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teamed up with Jeffrey and they created the original

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Fine and Dandy, which was a Saison style beer

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created with Dandelion. And Walkerville teamed

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up with them and they sold out, I think they

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raised like $14 ,000 that year. wrong on the

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numbers but they did they did very well. Now

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what is a Saison? A Saison is a farmhouse, like

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a Belgian farmhouse style beer. You're gonna

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get a lot of like banana notes out of it, a lot

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of clove. And with that dandelion, it really

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just kind of creates a fun flavor. The dandelion

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itself actually gives like an earthiness. So

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it's not a very common flavored beer. Now, the

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recipe that I make is actually Jeffrey's original

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recipe. So I recreate the Saison, which is available

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at Jake's Windsor Brew currently. And then it

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will be available at Eerie Street. Street Brewery,

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which we'll get to. But the Saison itself is

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the style that I do. But all of the other breweries

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that are involved now, everyone's doing new style

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beers. It's not just the Saison. We've got guys

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doing a basic Pilsner, where they add Dandelion.

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The Rose City Brewery guys, they're joining in.

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They joined in last year. They're doing a Groot,

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which is a beer that doesn't use hops. They're

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using Himalayan sea salt. Orange orange peel

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Rose hips and then dandelions So just all kinds

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of like fun beers that everyone's just teaming

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together to really just take this thing that

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Jeffrey created and we're just Pushing it to

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the next level and that's awesome because I know

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dandelions is very versatile Like a lot of people

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use it in salads and that but I know like I'd

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love to try the dandelion beer So when Jeffrey

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was diagnosed with cancer and he made the fine

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and dandy brew. Yeah How did that turn into this

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festival? So, Walkerville really, really took

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a hold of it those first couple of years. It

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was 2016, 2017 when it originally happened and

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Jeffrey created this beer in Walkerville every

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year afterwards. So, Jeffrey unfortunately only

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ever saw the first one. and then he passed away

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shortly thereafter. The following year, Walkerville

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and Kraftheads, again, they put it together.

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Walkerville every year has done their own event,

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so it has been carrying on year after year. I

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was actually there tonight before I came here.

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So Walkerville has always kept up this tradition

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of the fine and dandy, where they donate a certain

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amount of their proceeds sold tonight to the

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Windsor Cancer Society. So it has always is kept

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up but unfortunately back in 2021 I lost my wife

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Victoria to cancer and Dave Smith the owner of

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Jake's Windsor Brew he approached me and said

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hey do you wanna join in with the Fine and Dandy

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group? Like we can do our own version of Fine

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and Dandy. And so we did it that year as kind

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of our own little thing in at Jake's. And then

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after that, the next year we did it again and

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we sold more. And then last year, I just started

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making phone calls. I started talking to the

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guys at Walkerville and I said, hey. Let's all

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do this together. Let's make this more. And last

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year we did the event at Erie Street Gastropub

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and we had six breweries there and it's just

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grown. And now this year we're doing the event

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at GL and we've got 10 plus breweries that are

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coming for that. And GL Heritage Brewery is in

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Amersburg, Ontario and that's a wonderful place.

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I love that place. They're great. So it's gonna

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be fun. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Now, when

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is this festival? So, it's the last Sunday of

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April. I know we're at the beginning of April

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right now. The last Sunday of April, it's at

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GL Heritage. It's from noon to four, and I think

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right now we've got 10 breweries signed up for

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it, and they're all creating, like I said, their

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own rendition of A Fine and Dandy. I would hate

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to leave someone out off the top of my head,

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but, you know, everyone's going to have it on

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their social medias. Walkerville's going to be

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part of Craft Heads. Fat Lou, Top Dog, Bearded

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Dog, Jake's Brew, Eerie Street, Rose City. Oh,

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I'm sorry to whoever it is else that didn't make

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the cut there. We will make sure that it's listed.

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and where do the proceeds go to? So for that

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event, we are doing 100 % of proceeds. All of

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the beer has been donated. We've got musicians,

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Paul Longdon Acoustic Music, he'll be there.

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Greg Gnip and Brian or BT Booker, DJ BT will

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be there as well. They're the 519 Radio guys.

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and they're volunteering their time. And then

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all the proceeds that day, everything that we

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sell is going to go, we're gonna split it between

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the hospice of Windsor Essex County and the Windsor

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Cancer Society, Windsor Essex Cancer Society.

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That's really nice. Yes. It is very nice. So

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I am gonna have all that information on it. the

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description and on social media, make sure that

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we get out there. And you on Brew Talk had the

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family. I did. I just recorded an episode on

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Friday with you lovely folks here. I did. I sat

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down with the Craig family. So I sat down with

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Mike Craig, who is Jeffrey's dad, and he gave

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their own heartwarming rendition, their heartwarming

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tale of what they went through during Jeffrey's

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diagnosis up to his passing. Then I sat down

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with Jeffrey's brother, Michael, and his wife,

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Melissa. And they told some fun stories of Jeff.

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And then at the end of the episode, I sat down

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with Dave Smith, the owner of Jake's Windsor

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Brew, who owns the home brewer shop in Windsor,

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Essex. And Jeffrey actually worked there for

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a short period of time. So it was kind of his

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origin story. It was this tale from him being

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a kid with his brother, to the unfortunate diagnosis,

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to his history and how he has affected brewers

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in Essex County. I unfortunately never met him.

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I got into the industry a little bit after he

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did, but I'm honored that the family has given

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me that freedom to kind of continue this tradition.

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alongside Walkerville's tradition. Now does the

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Craig family help out with the Fine and Dandy

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Festival? Every year, absolutely. They are a

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huge part of it. I was spent earlier this evening,

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I was at Walkerville Brewery and they were there

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and I spoke with them for a little while again

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and they're gonna be at our festival on the Sunday

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and they've offered, do you need us to sell tickets?

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Do you need us to do... Anything what can we

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do so they have a hundred percent? Every year

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been a part of the the fine and dandy tradition

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and they will continue to do so it's grown Beyond

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anything any of us could have imagined Wow It's

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nice to have have Everybody come together. I

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really like the brewery community that we have

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in Windsor They all come together when needed,

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whether it's for the Fine and Dandy Festival,

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Masters of the Bruniverse, it's always a nice

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little camaraderie between them. Absolutely.

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Oh, the Windsor Essex County brewing community

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is is fantastic. You know, we're all we're all

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friends. We all hang out. We all try to get together

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and just go out for beers. You know, I love going

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to certain breweries and I'm tasting beer and,

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you know, hey, there's there's something is diacetyl

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in this and having the guys come to us. But we

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can we can joke about that. And, you know, you

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mentioned of the brewniverse like that, that

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fun competition. None of us are. I preach community.

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That's my big thing in the area. I preach community

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and I want to keep that community alive and it's

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not hard because everyone is so happy to be a

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part of it as well you know and I'm not saying

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that I'm keeping the community alive like we

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all keep the community alive everyone everyone

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is is so involved with everything you know whether

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it be the guys from craft heads saying hey Do

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you need a keg or whatever? An empty keg. You

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need some kegs? Here's some kegs. Or, you know,

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oh, I'm short on hops. You can call any of the

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guys. And it's happened before. And I say, guys,

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there's girls out there, too. We've got, you

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know... Ellie. Ellie, exactly. We've got a very

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mixed bag of brewers out there. Yeah, I've had

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the women on. Lovely. I need to have some of

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the men brewers on and have a little roundtable

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with them, as well. We would love sitting around.

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And I'm sorry I didn't bring beer. That's okay.

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I should have sat down with a beer here for you,

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so we'll just have to... to do another episode

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with some, a tastings episode. Well, because

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Eric is starting a brewery. And now, would that

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be classified as a microbrewery? Yes. Okay. Yeah,

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yeah, we're very small batch, one barrel. And

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the biggest thing that we're gonna do is we're

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focusing on our tap house. So it's gonna be opening

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up out of Erie Street Gastropub. Located on the

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corner of Erie and Ellesmere, right in Little

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Italy. Erie Street Gastropub's been around for

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a few years now. The owner there, Graham, him

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and I have created a relationship over the last

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few years and I kept bringing him in. some of

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my homebrew staff, and he's, damn, Eric, I really

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wish we could have some of your beer on tap here,

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and, you know, enough poking, and some time later,

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and now we're, yeah, we're right around the corner

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from opening our doors to the public and having

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my beer available on tap, strictly at Erie Street

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Brewery. So, Erie Street Brewery inside of Erie

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Street Castro Pub. And when do you guys contemplate

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that starting? I'm hoping... by the time this

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episode airs. If not very soon after. Exactly.

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I feel like I've been saying any day now for

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the last few weeks. And that's the problem with

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government paperwork. Sometimes it can take a

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little longer, but hopefully within the next

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couple of weeks, we're looking to have our doors

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open and beer available on tap. Now, how many

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different types of beers are you guys going to

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have? So, Ear Street Gastropub does have 24 taps

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available. And they're supporters of local. Of

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local. Of Ontario, of Canada. Yes. Mostly Ontario.

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Yes, mostly. Everything Graham gets, 95 % of

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it is Ontario, local ciders. You know, he's a

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great supporter of Thornberry Cidery and all

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of the local. You know, everywhere from Ottawa

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to Toronto, he's got contacts and he brings in

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great beer. And we're going to continue to...

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to do that. You know, Eerie Street Gastropub

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is separate from the brewery, and they will continue

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to keep their own beers, all the local, especially

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local Windsor beers. You know, we share taps,

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that's never gonna go away. I'm hoping to keep

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between four and six taps for the brewery alone.

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So we will have a good rotation. Our house beer

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is gonna be a Rice Lager, and I'm gonna have

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a nice Light Lager that's available. And then

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the other four to six are gonna be seasonal.

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Whatever we're feeling. Why not? No, rice beer.

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I've never heard of that. So a rice lager is,

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believe it or not, like Bud Light is a rice beer.

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Most people don't know that. It is made with

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rice syrup, I think. No, maybe don't put that

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in. Bud Light is fine. It's delicious. But rice

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is a common starch that's used in a starch, I

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guess. It's got sugar in it. And at the end of

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the day, anything with sugar. But rice is a common

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grain used in beer brewing. And a rice lager

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is Sapporo. That's a rice lager. And that's actually

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probably one of the more popular ones would be

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Sapporo. I like Sapporo. I had no idea. Well,

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come on down and try a rice lager. It's all right,

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I guess. Hey, you learn something new every day

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of the year. I'm really excited about that and

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I'm excited that he finally started his brew

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talk back You've had that podcast before and

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it just kind of fell by you were you're busy.

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That's it You know what? I started it as a passion

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project and uh, and that's what it was I I interviewed

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I don't think I think I went through about 10

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of the local brewers and we chatted about beer.

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They told me their story and then Exactly, I

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got busy, you know, between brewing and trying

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to, working the wine harvests at Coleo because

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Allison doesn't let me go anywhere during that

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time of year. So yeah, it just kind of fell to

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the wayside. But yeah, I just fired up a new

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episode and I'm really hoping to get that going

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more. So I've filmed actually a little bit more

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of my own stuff to try and... keep the social

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media algorithm with my name in it, I suppose,

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right? Yes. So we've got to get the social media

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back up and running. Yes, yes. Yeah. Eric at

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Brew Talk for anyone that wants to say hi. Shoot

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me an email. Tell me what you have for dinner,

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I don't care. Do you have any new episodes planned

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out in your head of who you're gonna have? You

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know what, I would like to sit down with Dave

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Smith from Jake's Winsor Brew again. At the end

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of the Fine and Dandy podcast, I felt like I

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could've talked to him for another half an hour,

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but I wanted to wrap it up. So he's probably

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next on my target list. But all of the brewers

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in Essex County that I've talked to that haven't

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been on yet have all given me the, yeah, I'd

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like to be on it, except for Scott over at Sandwich.

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I'm looking at you, Scott, I'm coming for you.

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He said maybe, maybe not, but I'll get him. I

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know I'll get him. You have to. Scott, you gotta

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go. You gotta go, Scott. You've been called out.

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There you go, Scott. Scott's my next episode.

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Brew Talk, is that just on YouTube? It is on

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YouTube. It's on Spotify. I'm the one running

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all of the media pages for it. Same here. I'm

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awful for it. People say YouTube is probably

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the one that I'm focusing on I did run it through

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all of the other But that's who knows who knows

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I'm awful for it. I'm a brewer man. Get me out.

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Get me off the computer I'm gonna have to help

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him out. That's it. I'm gonna have to pay someone

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So are you going to be recording your episodes

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out of Erie Street? Yeah, actually, you know,

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they've got a wonderful setup at the gastropub

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and I I think my my goal after filming my last

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episode, which was there, and big thanks to Graham

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for sharing that space at Erie Street. But yeah,

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I probably, I enjoyed the way that that worked

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out, so it would be cool, but I also, you know.

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with the Clear Rock Studios. Clear Rock Studios,

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you guys are wonderful and have no problem being

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on scene. I'll chase the podcasts as I can find

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them. If I gotta do them on scene, I'll do them

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on scene. But I would like to kind of use the

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brewery, Erie Street Brewery and the Gastropub

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as a home base, for sure. Just to let you guys

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know the room we're talking about is an event

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room that I didn't know that they had at Erie

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Street Gastropub that is for rent if you want

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to go take a look at it for any small events,

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work events. It's a great little room just off

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to the side and I love it there and I know we're

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going to be doing a podcast with you and Graham

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and some people at Erie Street once. The brewery

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is up and running and we could talk a little

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bit more and drink a little bit more. Sooner

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than later, hopefully, yeah. Yeah, because I

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mean, spring at Erie Street, it's all about change

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and... menus, and it's my favorite patio to go

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to in the summertime. Little corner spot. Well,

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we've got a lot of tricks up our sleeve. We're

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trying to keep them on the down -low. I don't

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want to let anything go yet, but stay tuned.

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I know a little bit. There's some fun things

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that are going to be happening this year on the

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patio, for sure. So I guess follow our socials

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to stay in the loop. That is true. Oh, I want

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to thank you so much for being on here and gracing

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me with your presence. Hey, I appreciate you

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having me on. It's been wonderful. And make sure

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that you follow me and check out my social media

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and Brew Talk because we're going to get that

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one back up and going. But we'll have all the

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information about the Fine and Dandy Festival

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that is coming up at the end of April. And that's

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going to be at GL Heritage Brewing Company out

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in Amersberg. And then we have have to check

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out Erie Street Brewery at Erie Street Gastropub,

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which will be coming soon. Very, very soon. Sooner

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than, yeah, that's right. Now, it should be out

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now. It's out now. Go there now. And follow Brew

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Talk on YouTube and check out the old episodes

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and get caught up with the newer ones. Yeah,

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great. Thank you so much. Of course. Thank you.

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And again, my name is Tracy. Thank you so much

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for joining me for another episode of YQG in

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Blue. Yeah, have a good day. you