On a Sunday afternoon in late October, the original taproom at Country Boy Brewing will fill with the sound of live music, the smell of a food truck, and tables of raffle baskets. The occasion is a fundraiser for the family of Annberlynn, a 2-year-old from Stamping Ground whose fight with a rare childhood liver cancer has drawn support from across Central Kentucky. The event runs from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 25 at 436 Chair Avenue in Lexington, and there is no ticket or reservation involved. People simply show up.
Annberlynn's mother, Caitlyn Miller, described the diagnosis as "a big smack in the face." Annberlynn was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma on May 16, according to LEX 18. The cancer was found in three of the four sections of her liver. One week after the diagnosis, on May 23, she underwent surgery to remove 60 percent of her liver. There was a tumor, then chemotherapy, and for a while the family believed she had been cleared. That changed in early September, when additional testing found the cancer had returned, in her lungs and in a spot on her kidney. She is now in a second round of chemotherapy, with at least three more rounds expected, each lasting three weeks.
Through all of it, Miller told the station, her daughter's personality has held. "For the most part, she's still her spunky little self," she said.
Hepatoblastoma is not a household name, and that is part of what makes it frightening. According to the National Cancer Institute, it is the most common type of childhood liver cancer, but it usually affects children younger than 3 years old, which puts it among the rarer cancers overall. The liver, the organ where it begins, is one of the largest in the body, tucked into the upper right abdomen beneath the rib cage, where it makes bile, stores sugar for energy, and filters harmful substances from the blood. The disease's treatment depends on how the cancer cells look under a microscope, and care typically involves surgery and chemotherapy. Annberlynn's course, with a major resection followed by chemo and then a recurrence, follows the difficult path many families of hepatoblastoma patients know.
The setting for the fundraiser carries its own weight in Lexington. Country Boy Brewing opened in February 2012 at 436 Chair Avenue, founded by four native Kentuckians: Daniel "DH" Harrison, Jeff Beagle, Evan Coppage, and Nathan Coppage. Their core beers, including Cougar Bait Blonde Ale, Shotgun Wedding Vanilla Brown Ale, Cliff Jumper IPA, and Halfway Home American Pale Ale, caught on quickly with craft beer drinkers across the Bluegrass State. In February 2017 the company opened a 22,500-square-foot taproom and production facility in Georgetown, about 19 miles from the original location, and in May 2019 it added a $1.8 million, 19,000-square-foot expansion there. The Chair Avenue taproom, expanded over the years, has remained the brewery's original home and a familiar gathering place near the University of Kentucky campus.
That home has not been entirely secure. In April 2026, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Landmark Properties of Athens, Georgia, had filed applications with the city for a zone change to build a multi-story apartment complex and underground parking garage that appeared to cover all the properties on Chair Avenue, including 436 Chair Ave. The proposal would rezone about five acres from industrial to corridor for high-density housing, with two buildings containing 972 bedrooms and a parking garage. The paper framed it plainly: a proposed apartment complex near UK could mean last call for the Lexington brewery. Whatever the eventual outcome, the taproom is still standing this fall, and on Oct. 25 it will serve as the gathering point for a family that needs it.
The benefit is a modest, familiar kind of community event: live music, raffle baskets, a food truck, and an open door. Miller said she cannot thank the community enough for the support her family has received as Annberlynn continues treatment. "I'm grateful for the community that we have around us," she told LEX 18.
For everyone else, the address on the afternoon of Oct. 25 is 436 Chair Avenue, where the doors open at 1 p.m. and the raffle baskets will be waiting.