Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective Podcast, the show where members
of our team interview each other to get the behind the scenes look at some
of our favorite articles. I’m Ashley Rodriguez, and I’m GBH’s podcast
producer.
One of my jobs at Good Beer Hunting is to post all the articles that come
through our website. Usually that means lots of cutting and pasting,
checking links, setting up their website page, and figuring out where
photos go. It also means I get real intimate with some of these
articles—I’m working with them for hours at a time.
One article that recently caught my attention was about Tilted Barn Brewery
in Exeter, Rhode Island. And the reason it caught my attention wasn’t
because of the beer, but because of the way the author wrote about Tilted
Barn. Kristen, whose day job involves working in people development (what
we might traditionally know as human resources), illuminates the people she
talks about. You don’t just want to visit Tilted Barn, you want to engage
with the owners, Kara and Matt Richardson—and their family.
They live just 100 yards away from the brewery with their four kids, and
Kristen’s story captures the ups and downs of integrating your everyday
life with your work. In this episode, we talk to Kristen about what it was
like to visit and share the story of Tilted Barn, and what attracts her to
the folks she depicts in her stories.
