Hey everybody, before we get started, I've got a few things I'd like to cover.

Like we said before, we're trying to get to the Great American Beer Festival, but we need your help to do that.

And the way you help us do that is to send us donations.

You can do that through PayPal, go to thebearists.com, and on the left-hand side of the page, there's a PayPal donate link,

click on it, and send us some cash.

Or credit card, I mean, PayPal does it a few different ways.

The other way to do it is through Patreon, patreon.com slash the beerists.

And there you set up a dollar amount pledge that you want us to receive for every episode

we release.

It could be one buck, five bucks, seven bucks, ten bucks, whatever, and every time a new

episode comes out we get that amount.

Really cool ways to help the show.

And as show our gratitude for that, we've put together a couple of gift boxes like we did

last year, and there will be two lucky people that'll get to take these gift boxes home.

The first gift box is going to have five beers custom selected for you.

Hopefully there'll be beers that you can't easily get in your area.

And a beerist's tasting glass.

And that box will be given to one lucky person who's donated under $50.

There's another gift box though for one person who has donated over $50. And that

one's going to have 10 beers in it, four of which are from our sellers, and two beerists

tasting glasses. And if you've already donated since January, we're going to include you in

this drawing too. So thank you so much for all of your help. Now here's a second thing that

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