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Beer & Fear is Paige Krause & Zach Damit

As lovers of both craft beer and all things spooky & sinister, our idea to create a podcast together that showcased both was years in the making. What began as a silly hypothetical eventually evolved into a desire to make it a reality. Whether it’s researching the reign of Vlad the Impaler, sharing statistics on shark attacks, telling the tale of La Llorona, or anything else in between, we look forward to unpacking and bringing you a new scary topic every week. We also enjoy pairing, researching, and trying a new beer with each episode - sometimes beers we would’ve never thought to try on our own accord. We love sharing our experiences with our listeners, and we hope you take as much out of the show as we put into it. Tune in, learn something new, and crack open a new brew!

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What are some of your biggest phobias? What keeps you up at night? What’s the best beer you’ve ever tried? The best brewery you’ve been to? If you douse pork ribs with special BBQ sauce and attach them to trees, and no ones around, does Bigfoot still eat them?

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View fullsize We're back people, and we brought some new episodes with us! For episode 91, we tried Freedom of Speach sour ale flavored with, you guessed it, peaches. Paired with our episode on the #Winecoff #Hotel. 🎧: beerandfearcast.com/episodes/91 #beer
View fullsize For Episode 90, we enjoy La Piña de mis Ojos by @5rabbitbrewery. This one, like the last, is another pineapple sour, but with some Latin American funk added to the mix. Paired with our episode on #Selene #Delgado #Lopez. 🎧: beerandfearcast
View fullsize Episode 89 welcomes another fantastic brew by @sainterrantbrewing. We try Cay Runner sour ale with flavors of pineapple and passionfruit. We still love you, Saint Errant. Paired with our episode on the #Sentinelese. 🎧: beerandfearcast.com/episode
View fullsize Episode 88 showcases Hotel Life by @hailstormbrewing, a crisp American lager that's a super easy drinker. Paired with our episode on H.H. Holmes and his "#hotel". 🎧: beerandfearcast.com/episodes/88 #beer #fear #podcast
View fullsize For this week, we picked Mother Schmuckers fruit and field blonde by @grandarmorybrew out of Grand Rapids, MI. This is a super light and crisp blonde ale packed with raspberries. The armoa will take your right back to when you were a little kid on yo
View fullsize One of the most fruity, sweet, and delicious beers we've had in a while, Frog Stack by @phasethreebrew is a fruit-packed gose made with blueberries, cherries, pineapples, and topped off with marshmallow to give it that fluffy, creamy finish to balanc
View fullsize And for 85, we sip Pineapple Misfit IPA by @wildonionbrewery! It's Wild Onion's Misfit with a touch of pineapple to add that fruity, craveable finish. The pineapple is strong with this one. We talk about #JonBenét Ramsey, the child beauty quee
View fullsize Now, episode 84. We tell the story of Ariel Castro and the #kidnappings of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus. Berry Monkey by @victorybeer is a #tripel, a strong ale flavored with real raspberries and incorporating imported malts and Be
View fullsize We fell behind in posting. No frills. Episode 83 is on the Tlaxcalan #vampire known as #Tlahuelpuchi. Brew is Horchata Ale by @pipeworksbrewing! Combine the best tasting horchata and the best tasting beer - this is what you get! 🎧: beerandfearcast.
View fullsize Beer for Butchers is a Maibock by @offcolorbrewing that blends bourbon barrel-aged lager with a traditional, Bavarian, malty lager to create a unique brew that we've never had on the show before! We were happy to revisit Off Color - we missed you sin
View fullsize In episode 81, we talk about Gloria Ramirez - posthumously known as the #Toxic #Lady - her contraction of a mysterious disease, and how her affliction spread to the hospital staff who cared for her. This time around, our beer pick has no connection w
View fullsize We made sure you celebrated this 4/20 right with the dankest episode of Beer & Fear yet! This week’s episode is all about #drugs, and we couldn’t have picked a better pairing than 420 Strain G13 IPA by @sweetwaterbrew. The beer smells
View fullsize We love a good cream ale (at least @zachdamit does), so we were excited to try Cranium Crush by @petoskeybrewing! With raspberry puree added during fermentation and actual waffle cones added into the mash, we knew this would be a great pick! It&rsquo
View fullsize If you see a beer with fruits and the word “smoothie” on it, you should know what you’re getting into. Bistro Smoothie by @energycitybrewing is one of, if not the sweetest beers we’ve ever tried. It’s tropical, it’
View fullsize We thought we fixed it before, but it still wasn't fixed. We fixed it for real this time. All our podcast episodes are available again on all streaming platforms. This calls for a clink🍻 We apologize for depriving you of your weekly dose of Beer &am
View fullsize This beer was... interesting. We've had farmhouse ales before, but nothing quite like this. Farmhouses and Saisons are sometimes described as "horse-y" or "goat-y". Add some peppercorn into the mix and you're not far off from what