CL-017 Kate Bernot and the mystery of #FlagshipFebruary

Welcome to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have
the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributors and
friends on topics of writing, beer and the stories you read and hear from
GBH.

Today’s episode is one of those great conversations you don’t want to end,
when you’re talking with someone talented and uniquely good at what they
do. You’ll see by the timestamp that there is, in fact, a stop time to my
chat with Kate Bernot, but I can only hope you get the same kind of
impression.

Kate has a long background in journalism, but beer fans may recognize her
byline from DRAFT magazine, where she served as associate editor and then
beer editor over several years, or her current role as associate editor at
The Takeout, a food and beverage site from the A.V. Club.

Kate’s approach to her writing brings a variety of humor and skilled
nuance, depending on what she’s writing about that day, from dealing with
frozen beers to daily topics impacting the beer industry. It just so
happens that we both recently covered the idea of Flagship February, and
you’ll hear a chunk of this conversation dissecting what that effort means
and the story behind her story written for The Takeout asking if beer
loyalty is dead.

There’s plenty more, including her thoughts on drinking beer in her new
home state of Montana.

This is Kate Bernot, writer, reporter, and advocate for Big Sky Country’s
flagship brands. Listen in.