Hey everybody. This is the Brewlopsy podcast. I'm your host, Marshall Shot, and we have made it to our

410th episode, which means it's time for another Bruin A. joining me to answer a bunch of

listener submitted questions as contributor Will Lovell. Oh, every time we do these, these are some of my favorite episodes, the amount of questions we get are fantastic. The topics are all over the place. It makes me try to flex my brew knowledge and maybe even learn a thing or two more. So I'm really excited to be doing this today. Yeah, absolutely. And just a reminder that one of the many benefits of being a patron of brulosophy is that we do prioritize their questions for these Bruin A episodes. So if there's something you've wanted to know or perhaps you've emailed a question that we just haven't responded to yet, your best bet for getting it answered is to become a patron of brulosophy.

Now, real quick, this episode is dropping on December 30th, 2025. And as such, we want to make sure

that everybody is having an excellent holiday season and that the new year treats you well.

Sentimentalist that I am, I just can't help but look back and reflect on things a bit.

And in doing so, it occurred to me

that we used to do a sort of like annual wrap-up episode at the end of each year, during which we

would go over all of the neat things that happened, as well as what we had planned for the future.

But that feels a little weird this year, given the situation this industry is currently in.

The truth is we didn't really do much outside of our regular publishing schedule in 2025. And at this point, we don't

really have any major developments to announce for the new year, for better or for worse. Now,

keen listeners of this show will likely notice some changes in the coming weeks,

namely to the ads in each episode.

You know, as some of our longtime sponsors have just been forced to pull out for budgetary reasons,

we totally understand this.

These are also friends of ours who we have nothing but appreciation and respect for.

Now, you know, I try to be as transparent as possible

about these things, hence the focus on it right now. One thing that's absolutely true is that

running even a relatively small outfit like Brulosophy costs money. And as much as some people

believe that we should be doing this as some sort of a sacrifice, that's just not reality.

It's not how it works.

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