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Hey, we're the bearests.

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. I'm When we started this podcast 12 years ago,

and I was trying to figure out who was going to be on this show,

Grant was kind of a shoeing.

We really wanted to do something together,

and this show was kind of what came out of that.

This is the afterbirth of our initial concept.

Yeah.

I was a little concerned because when I started thinking about, okay, it should be a beer show.

And I'm really into beer and Grant isn't so much.

But I got other beer people into it and it became what it became. I was kind of worried about Grant because I knew that eventually people

were going to look to us for like answers and to be stewards for the craft beer movement.

And I'm super proud of how you have developed as a keeper of the craft beer flame.

And nothing exemplified it like yesterday at the bottle share.

I didn't make it to the bottle share.

What happened, John?

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