U.S. BEER DRINKING TEAM CAPTAIN APPEARS IN "FAKING IT" on TLC Cable

ANNAPOLIS, MD -- July 15, 2003 U.S. Beer Drinking Team Captain, Hall of Fame Member, and BeerTelevision correspondent, "Chicago Bill" Krejci will appear on The Learning Channel's (TLC) newest and most exciting reality television series, FAKING IT, on Sunday, July 20 @ 6PM EST. (Check your listings) - -

ANNAPOLIS, MD -- July 15, 2003 U.S. Beer Drinking Team Captain, Hall of Fame Member, and BeerTelevision correspondent, "Chicago Bill" Krejci will appear on The Learning Channel's (TLC) newest and most exciting reality television series, FAKING IT, on Sunday, July 20 @ 6PM EST. (Check your listings) - -

"You can take the boy out of Chicago, but you can't take the beer out of the Chicago boy", says hard-core sports fan "Chicago Bill" Krejci. FAKING IT tries to take the beer out of the Captain of the U.S. Beer Drinking Team by moving him 2,000 miles away to San Francisco for 4 weeks and turning him into a wine captain (sommelier). "I spend about 800 dollars a year on beer", exclaimed Chicago Bill, "and here I was in California wine country selling a single bottle of wine for 800 dollars as the wine sommelier at the Ritz Carlton Hotel!"

FAKING IT plucked Chicago Bill from his natural habitat as Captain of the U.S. Beer Drinking Team, and gave him one month to master a completely alien skill set well enough to fool a group of industry judges. Was he able to fool the judges or is he just everyone's good old Chicago beer buddy? Either way he remains Captain of the U.S. Beer Drinking Team.

Chicago Bill's episode, Six Pack To Chardonnay re-airs on Sunday, July 20th, at 6PM EST (Check Your Local Listings).

Each FAKING IT episode culminates with a final test that follows the weeks of intensive training. Finally, the faker competes with three other experienced peers before a panel of judges, all oblivious to the faker among them. At the end, the judges are asked to identify the faker. Will the fakers "pass" in this strange new world? Can they fake it till they make it?

According to Dennis Buettner, President of the U.S. Beer Drinking Team, "Chicago Bill showed the world, his family and his beer buddies that a Chicago beer drinker can make it in California wine country. He is truly an asset to the USBDT's Brotherhood of Beer."

About the U.S. Beer Drinking Team The United States Beer Drinking Team (www.USBDT.com) is headquartered outside of Annapolis, Md., and has members in all 50 states and on military deployment around the world. The USBDT is the only organization for the 90,000,000 beer drinkers in the USA and supports responsible consumption and personal accountability.

Chicago Bill may be reached directly from his website www.ChicagoBill.com.

FAKING IT is produced by RDF Media; (www.RDFMedia.com) executive producer is Stephen Lambert. For TLC, the executive producer is Kathy Davidov.