Chris is like the godfather of craft beer and eerie.

So if I could get him on board, I think all the others around town will follow.

What's going on?

I got a few ideas, few things that we're thinking about that when they run by you.

We like throwing stuff in the wall around here.

So, yeah, I also wanted to show Matt some of your gear back there.

Pretty impressive.

Want to look?

Yeah, Let's do it.

Turn rivals into revenue.

Chris Syriani could see us his competition because we also want to sell craft beer, but always eliminate potential conflicts by striking deals that are mutually beneficial.

How old are these tanks?

They look brand new.

Actually, they're in good shape there, about 13 years old.

It's about about how long we've been around.

So I started thinking, Why not find a way to be collaborative instead of being competitors so we could have switched gears and came up with a barbecue and brew place?

But we don't want a brew.

I wanna highlight the local brewers as the kind of the infrastructure of the bar side.

We'd love your help.

Why don't we all carry the same name?

Brand This, Uh, this is kind of a national brand for brewers and everything.

You guys all own it.

We own it together.

If that makes sense, you know?

And again, it's it's or, um And then being able to have this kind of coop.

And if we pour all of your beers and we have one beer that we call our own, made by the crap local beers, brewers I can't stop talking.

I'm rambling.

I'm even getting confused.

But what the hell?

I'm pitching.

I'll let you kind of take it.

Take it from there.

Met we'd like to do is come up with our own kind of middle of the road beer, like a like an amber ale or something like that that we'd be able to sell everywhere on.

And then that way the name brand would would of the beer itself would be ableto travel.

It's a different beer.

One name?

Yeah.

And they would say I know that beer, because all the craft guys are making the same recipe, you know, and a ce faras rolling out a joint national craft brand.

I'm really content growing within her own four walls.

I don't have, you know, the desire, the wish to be a national brands and dominate the states.

And I think most guys in this industry for the same exact way.

But thanks after an unsuccessful meeting with Chris Syriani Brewery, Matt and I have regrouped and we're ready with our streamline pitch.

How you doing?

Good to see you were headed over to talk to Matteo at Voodoo Brewery and hopes that we could get him on board.

And I haven't filled in on my journey, but come up here from Baltimore and decided Tow Open a business here, you know, got together with Matt and came up with a really a barbecue and brew place.

But the idea really is we're not gonna brew our own beer, but to embrace fellow brewers and hopefully pour their beer on the surface, it might look like a softball pitch to get these local brewers to let us poor their beer, but it's not that easy.

See, these local brewers want to capture the market.

They want to be the only place that their beers served.

I'm trying to convince them that if they let us serve their beer.

We're gonna be a promotion for them.

Just kind of have that reciprocation.

Where if we can go, you know, booties down the street there a great place you got to go try.

And here's one of their beers.

Maybe old in turn, go.

There's some great barbecue down the road, you know?

And that's kind of the whole idea.

We're in the same boat.

I mean, we are Specialty.

Is is the burial.

We make the beer.

We like to obviously showcase the beer and compare it with some great food.

Our plan is to be open by Memorial Day is coming very quickly, very quickly.

And, um, you know, we'd love to be able to pour your beer.

You know, you brew, I brand and we both profit.

You know, it's kind of concept.

Absolutely.

It's a great idea.

Perfect way.

Did it?

We got a tail on board our first, yes, but we still have the second part of the pitch, which is having him producer house beer that we hope we can sell him.

On the other concept that we had was tohave a house beer.

One that's our beer right, brewed by a local brewer.

We're not gonna brew it right.

And it'll be a you know, our name of a beer, but brewed by voodoo or whatever, however, that legally has to be done.

That happens all the time.

They call that private label.

It's something that voodoo Brewing Company has never done and probably will never do.

It doesn't do our brand.

Any service to private label something for someone else.

Way simply could not do that.

I know we've thrown a lot of thio.

You're starting a business.

So again, we like to be a resource and welcome to the community.

Yeah, well, thank you again today.

Yeah, it really was.

Our first pitch with Chris Syriana was a bust, but in business, you never give up.

We really need to serve his beer in our restaurant.

So we're heading back to give him the reworked pitch.

What's going on?

Hey, Chris, it's good to see you get the word.

No.

Is only the start of a conversation.

All successful businesses have been told the word no more than they've heard the word yet.

Someone once said no to me in a very crucial deal.

But instead of taking them?

No.

I took a red eye through all night across the country, got in front of them and turned that no, into a yes.

You know, we want to pick up on the conversation that we had with you the other day, which I think was we felt a little overwhelming.

We just threw a five year plan that you and 15 seconds, you know, and I know I came in hot again.

This is be fun.

And this will be, you know, really easy.

It's not that way, obviously.

And so I've, um, personally ate a little crow and realize that much I I respect and appreciate what you guys do.

So we want to go and and still have a relationship with the local brewers.

Sure, we would be honored to be able to pour your beer because we want the reciprocation, right.

We want to be able to have you come in and go.

You know, they've got great barbecue, and hopefully we do.

That's the whole idea, right?

Is that really you were just a short lived.

But how do you feel about a selling your beer in our restaurant?

Um left too.

We love great partners.

Appreciate that.

I want to go out and support the guys that air support now.

So we love.

That's the idea that our our second thought requests would be to come up with a beer that you could make.

That would be a A beer.

That's our house beer.

You know, something that we could just call our own for opening and serve it just at the underdog barbecue restaurant.

Is that something that appeals to you?

Would you be interested in making that beer for us?

Sure.

Yeah, I appreciate it.

Give any ideas for us on that?

Yeah.

So in the forest product, I think you know a blonde ale.

We make a great pawn.

We take that beer and either tweak it or do something fun that would be perfect for barbecue.

It's except the vial.

A lot of locals, I think you'd be great.

Bear launch with.

Okay.

Good.

I like that idea.

Thinks it's gonna have to be brewed by Chris.

It's gonna have to have Chris his name on it as well.

And that's okay.

You know, I don't mind that.