Lambics against Leukemia LIF

Beer Community,

I've watched the beer world come together many times over the years to help and support members of the community. We're a very social group, and we look after each other. Lately, the topic of these fund-raisers has been cancer. This message is no different.

It's my turn to run a fund-raising raffle. Many of you know Matt Meyer (BA Handle: Knownfactor). Matt is a regular trader and contributor to these forums and groups. He's an active member of the Denver beer community.

Over the holidays, Matt's son Owen was diagnosed with B Cell All Leukemia. They have a long and stressful road ahead of them as the treatment plan for this can be 3+ years. I can't even begin to imagine the toll that this can take emotionally and financially on their family. You can read more about Owen's fight on this fund-raising page. http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/o-s-big-fight-/117602



All of us in the Denver beer community are committed to helping. We are pulling our resources locally to run fund-raiser events. This is a marathon, not a sprint. We will be running a series of beer raffles online as well so please bear with us.

With this message, i would like to announce the first of these raffles. This first raffle, nicknamed "Lambics against Leukemia" includes the following 3 prizes. In addition, there is a grand prize box that will be raffled off only if we hit the initial fundraising goal detailed on that site.

Grand Prize (only raffled if initial goal is met):
Cantillon Cognac 2003 (Small test batch - One of 2 bottles that were sold at Olbutikken 2 years ago, AFAIK)

First Prize:
Drie Fonteinen Malvasia Rosso
Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage 2004
Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage 2007

Second Prize:
Cantillon Fou Foune 2005
Cantillon Fou Foune 2012
Cantillon Fou Foune 2013

Third Prize:
Cantillon Classic Gueuze 2012
Cantillon St. GIlloise 2012
Cantillon Kriek 2013

For every $10 you donate, you will receive an entry in the raffle. In order to participate,make your donation on the site that has been set up (
http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/o-s-big-fight-/117602). Do not make your donation anonymous if you want to participate in the raffle. I need to be able to see it. Next, send an email to 4owen atsign young.us with your name, your BA/RB/BT handle, and the amount that you donated).

This first drawing will be on January 31. Let's exceed those goals and raffle off a rare Cantillon!

I know that often people offer to donate additional raffle boxes. In this case, if you offer such a thing, we are likely going to save your offered box for a future raffle. For this round, the 3 (or 4!) boxes above will be the beers raffled.

Remember, if everyone seeing this message bought just one raffle ticket, we'd more than triple our initial fund-raising goals.

Cheers,
Friends of Matt Meyer

 

Here's a better link that doesn't go through FaceBook.

http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/o-s-big-fight-/117602

 

All told, just under $7500. That's from the beer community, friends and family, etc. Our January goal is to exceed $15,000 to help alleviate some of the immediate stresses.

Beer community specific, i do know that there are 271 272 [edit] raffle entries already, if that gives you an idea. It's been an amazing response!

 

Owen the super hero!


Wow! In just over a week, we are almost 2/3 of the way to our initial goal. And we still have 12 days left to get there!

I really appreciate everyone's involvement so far. The beer community has been great. We've gotten support from every single group that has seen this message! We can't do this without you.

A lot has happened in Owen life since the initial post. I was going to post here, but his parents have done a much better job of keeping us informed. If you haven't clicked over to the "Updates" tab on Owen's YouCaring page, you should. There was great news early this week and he continues to progress well.

Please continue to help support this effort. Give up one bomber this week. We really appreciate it.

 

Last bump from me this time around.

2 days left! I will cut off raffle entries Friday night at midnight Denver time. We're over 2/3 of the way there! Let's get one last push and exceed the goal.

Owen's going to draw the names for us, so we'll do that some time over the next week when it works with his schedule. I'll post the results as soon as we've done it.

Good luck and thank you!

 

Wow! (that's all I can say for now). =) You guys are amazing.

I'll post more once I have raffle winners, but one quick note.... I have 45 raffle tickets ($450) donated from people that did not also send me an email. If you want to be in the raffle, I need an email back from you today.

 

SO CUTE! I can't even bring myself to type the winner's names here. You have to watch to see if you won.