We crack open another one and dive straight into our Beers of the Week before tackling the age-old debate: is there really just one best local brewery, or are we all just fiercely loyal to whoever's closest to the house? From there we take a lap around the beer world — the 2026 US Beer Open Championship results, a Senate race with an unexpectedly beer-adjacent name in Kleban, and the ongoing trade war fallout from the CANADA Act that's got our imports on edge.
Then things get weird (in the best way): amino acid-boosted beers are apparently a thing now, so we try to figure out if that's genius or just gym-bro marketing wearing a hop cone costume. We give a well-earned shoutout to Truck & Tap before turning to whether Gen Z is actually drinking more than we give them credit for. And because no episode of ours is complete without the macro-brew circus, we close it out with Natty Light's "CoolShed" and Busch's genuinely unhinged "Live Worm Can."
Crack one open with us, this one's got a little bit of everything.
Thanks for listening to Beer Guys Radio! Your hosts are Tim Dennis and Brian Hewitt with producer Nate "Mo' Mic Nate" Ellingson and occasional appearances from Becky Smalls.
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