CL-043 Kate Bernot Reads All The Comments
Hey! Did you hear we hired someone new?\xa0
We\u2019re all excited to welcome Kate Bernot to the Good Beer Hunting team. She\u2019s taking over as the lead at Sightlines, our news channel (don\u2019t worry, Bryan Roth is still around, working on new projects and definitely making charts).
Kate brings years of experience to the team, which she put to good use pretty much from the moment she started. On day one of Kate\u2019s new job with GBH, it was announced that Ballast Point Brewing Company would be sold to Kings & Convicts Brewing Company, a brewery in Highwood, Illinois. I live in Chicago and I had to Google where that was\u2014and collectively, so did the rest of Beer Twitter, essentially shutting down the Kings & Convicts website when the news broke. Kate had to write her very first article for us about one of the biggest news stories in beer EVER.
As you probably know if you keep up with our site, Kate crushed it, reporting through all the noise that the news stirred up, and finding out some key facts that made clear how this sale was possible. Talk about on-the-job training\u2014within hours of reporting for duty, Kate published one of the most comprehensive breakdowns of the Ballast Point sale out there. And today, we\u2019re gonna learn more about how that story unfolded.
Likewise, we\u2019re gonna learn more about Kate herself\u2014for all the messages and emails flying around during that Ballast Point article, this is the first time I get some time to chat with her. Along with her stellar work for previous beer publications and her penchant for asking simple and straightforward questions, we quickly learned we at the office were making one fundamental mistake.