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Hey, we're the bearest.

We're passionate about beer.

I want to help you find the tastiest ones.

Each week, we try a bunch,

tell you what we think,

and crack a few jokes along the way.

Because drinking beer is fun,

and a beer podcast should be too.

Music because drinking beer is fun and a beer podcast should be too. When I was a kid. When I was a kid, I got the weirdest surprise that I could ever think of from my parents.

And I'm not sure who bought it, whose fault this was.

But you know how around Easter in certain shittier parts of the world? sometimes you'll see people on the side of the road selling Easter colored baby chicks.

Yes.

Oof.

I hate that shit.

Like, I look at that today, and I think it's the worst thing I can imagine selling a living creature like that just for entertainment to people who probably won't

take care of it very well.

Well, that family was mine when I was probably six or seven years old.

One of my parents showed up home with one of those chicks for me as a gift.

And I think it's a little bit more normal for my family because we were kind of a ranch family.

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