There's also an Indiegogo project that's a crowd-source funding project that's going to kick off here in the next few weeks.
Hopefully.
Hopefully.
The next few weeks.
Maybe three weeks.
And we've got to be a part of that.
That's going to go to paying people like us.
So we're happy to be involved with this project and we're going to play some of that music for you right now.
One, two, one, two, three.
I'm saying that you've got more different varieties of well-made beer in this country than any other country in the world at any other time in history.
That's what makes a beer a beer.
Good old-fashioned American dream stuff.
But the worst thing that could happen or the last thing that should happen is every brewery doing the same thing and going in lockstep break along the same path.
Because we've kind of become that thing that we've kind of been fighting for the last 15, 20 years.
If you actually take an Escher painting and then pretend working in it, that's what this brewery's like.
The laws in this state, and you know, I'd be wrong not to mention that it was restrictive in the country.
Actually, when I explain the laws to people, I start out by saying, first you have to understand that this doesn't make any sense.
All of our good ideas come from within about 10 feet of a task.
There's something interesting going on in the craft beer world where it's part of the value proposition is the tie with the mix-upers.
I don't see that in many other industries. That tells you there's something different going on.
People in Oregon should drink Oregon beer. People in Massachusetts should drink Massachusetts beer.
Really, it makes sense because that's when it's the freshest.
We're going to do the best we can to make the best beer that we could ever make.
And people have to come here and enjoy it and it makes it actually a little more special experience when they do drink it. It's true.
We have the freshest water on the planet right outside our door. And better water, better beer.
Well, it's certainly re-invigorated the industry. There's no question about that.
There was a pent-up demand. It was almost like a rebellion against the planned American law or something.
They're really beginning to say, wow, this tastes so good. I've been drinking water all these years.
What I'd like to be a part of or see happen is that we go to regional supply networks.
I've foreseen that we can use the farm with the land we have and produce enough value that we can retain that family farm.
My dream was actually to be the brewer and own the brew pub at the same time, to do a buy-away.
And I had kind of a vision of what I wanted to do for beer.
Well, the way the law is where we could do that, we could sell anyone a glass of beer to do that.
The sort of client law really kind of, you can see, is an inflection point of when things really started to grow in Minnesota.
We're doing an expansion to double our capacity.
We actually ordered the tanks after being open less than two months.
We do a lot of hops really well.
You know, there's tourism tied to it. There's holes built around beer that is really about to blossom.
Thank you.
