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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, can crack a few jokes along the way, because drinking April 15th, 2019.

St. Elmo Brewing Company.

I just went to Lazarus Brewing Company, which is the place that Mike works at.

I had a delightful experience, as usual.

I went there and I got a little coffee in the morning.

I got some breakfast tacos.

I like their breakfast tacos a lot.

And when I was there,

I happened to be wearing this um, this Bearest hat that I made that Rubya doesn't like that I made.

It's really bad. It's a bootleg beeras hat. It looks like we have a brand, but somebody in China found out and decided to make their own. Oh, man, I could not have asked for a better compliment than that.

This is exactly what I was going for.

Anyway, I was there, and I was also wearing, like, a pineapple pizza shirt.

And when I was ordering from the bar, I said, oh, I'm going to go ahead and grab a couple

tasters, just a little small pourers of whatever, two beers.

The guy I was ordering from

was like, oh, do you work? Are you in the industry? Do you work at Pine House? I was like, no,

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