When you hear, ‘limited edition,’ what do you think of?

“Unique, special, one-of-a-kind,” Jason Evchich said.

Evchich says he has a limited edition family.

“Lets just get rid of the ‘special needs,’ and just start right with ‘limited edition.'”

Jason’s two sons, 5-year-old Mason, and 4-year-old Matthew, live with a rare disease that prohibits them from walking, talking, crawling and in some cases, eating.

“We were just sort of sick of sitting under what we called the ‘Mason Tree’ at our park in Pendleton, watching everyone play all the time,” Jason said.

So, he and his family founded Mason’s Mission, and built an all-inclusive, ADA-approved, special needs playground in Pendleton. It opened last September.

But now, there’s a new addition to the playground: an all-inclusive carousel.

“It looks like a little rocket ship,” Jason said.

The carousel is man-powered, and can fit six to eight people inside. It’s also limited edition… it’s the first of its kind in America.

And it was funded by beer drinkers in Lockport. New York Beer Project unveiled Mason: Limited Edition Honey Blonde Ale, back in June. One dollar from every pint goes to Mason’s Mission, and about $3,300 has been raised so far.

NYBP also uses local honey out of Clarence when brewing the ale.

“We used about 120 pounds of local wildflower honey,” Jason Crossett said, the head brewer at NYBP.

And even though the carousel is up, the brewery owners tell me they plan to keep the beer on tap for several more months, continuing to raise money for the playground.

“There’s something for everyone,” Co-owner Kelly Krupski said. “When you just go and see it, it just makes you feel wonderful. I know the kids feel wonderful being there.”

It’s a limited edition gift, funded by a limited edition beer… all for ‘limited edition’ families in Western New York.

“They can be there with everybody else,” Evchich said. “They can be right in the action and not on the sidelines anymore.”

NYBP also partners with Perry’s Ice Cream to make ice-cream flavored brews. One dollar from every pint of those beers goes to Oishei Children’s Hospital. So far, beer drinkers have helped raise about $13,000 for the hospital in just one year.