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Welcome to Bear Island, a Navy Veteran’s ‘Dream’ Brewery

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When Beth Bechtel was serving in the U.S. Navy, she loved exploring different beers around the world. When she was back home in Idaho, she was disappointed there weren’t more local beers on grocery store shelves. She and her husband Steve decided to change that and now they run Bear Island Brewing out of a garage in Boise, Idaho.

“Bear Island is my dream,” she tells us.

See their story in this video.

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