I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Ernest I've got with support of you know selection. So,

Loeffikovitz of Portavino selection. So, sir, how are you?

I'm good, Levy. Good to see you. Good to see you too, man.

So you're a Pennsylvania man?

I am, I am, the Keystone State.

And what was it like growing up there?

You know, I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood, right?

I mean, dropping transmissions, fixing motorcycles, that was me, man.

What was a family like?

Oh, man.

One of those. Yeah, I got one of those. those no I also have the big sigh family in a good way in a good way too right you know my dad's a biker so he's got like biker tattoos up and down the arm. My mom was a nurse.

That was, that was kind of gives you some direction for the family.

My sister was there, but I you know I kind of was gravitated towards my mom with the nursing side and taking care of people and taking care of things and kind of wanted to be a tough guy like my dad too right I don't have any tattoos though you know I mean

What was a relationship with beverages?

You know my dad was um he was a beer guy. So, when I was a kid he'd often asked me to go fetch him a beer,

so I'd always go to the fridge and, you know, the first one I gave him, you know I I know how to serve a beer and I open and you say thank you

You know when you get to the second and third one I was like you know I'd shake him up a little bit right just because it was fun and it explode. So that was that. So one day, you know, he's like,

don't shake the beer up, you know, he caught me at my game. I said, listen, listen, I want to start collecting things. He's like, why? I'm like, I just do, I just do. And he's like, here, collect this and it was an empty. It was an empty beer can. Maybe it was yingling or something like that, I'm not sure. So that was, you know, I had a little

beer collection there going. Of bottles and cans. Bottles and cans, yeah, in my room. I mean, I wasn't drinking, you know,

I was like eight years old or something like that.

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