It's Wednesday, October 3rd.

Welcome to the Market Fuller.

I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today

from Motley Fool Pro Brian Henman

and from Motley Fool Inside Value, Joe Meager.

The Conquering Heroes back from New York City.

Feels good to see you guys.

We are going to talk about the business of beer.

We are going to dip into the fool mail bag,

but we are going to start with Apple because the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the rumored iPad

mini is actually real and being built as we speak. Suppliers confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that production

began last month on the

iPad mini.

It's going to have a 7.8 inch screen.

Fortune magazine reports that media invites are going to be sent out a week from today.

Brian, the device could be available as early as October 22nd.

This is, they're not messing around over there at Apple.

I do not expect to get an invite.

No, I wasn't thinking we'd get invites. I'm saying like real media people would get

invite. Yeah real media people would. What do you think about this? Do you think

this is this is sort of always been in the works or do you think to some degree the maps

fiasco that we've seen in past couple of weeks maybe added a level of urgency for

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