An insights-driven professional community and content subscription for the craft beverage industry.
Introducing a premium content subscription with weekly articles, insights, and data that stimulate an ongoing conversation for brewers and beverage producers in emerging categories. Led by Michael Kiser and Bryan Roth of Good Beer Hunting, and a team of category experts, the goal is turn curiosity into actionable insights for business leaders and decision-makers.
Membership benefits:
weekly analysis newsletter
community access (via Slack)
bi-weekly video chats (via Zoom)
2-way dialog with GBH insights team
50% company discount for additional members
Yearly subscription
$600/yr (save $120)
Monthly subscription
$60/month
Your hosts
Michael Kiser is an innovation strategist with 12+ years of CPG experience, with a focus in the craft beverage sector launching more than a dozen brands across the U.S., and helping shape portfolio strategies for breweries of all sizes. He’s helped lead innovation and incubation projects for PepsiCo, MillerCoors, AB Inbev, Diageo, as well as tech and experience programs for Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Snap-on Tools, Adobe, Apple, and Samsung. In the last six years, he’s helped launch small, highly differentiated start-up breweries like Brewery Bhavana, East Brother Beer Co., Cinderlands, and helped reestablish the New Belgium Brewing specialty program.
Bryan Roth leads Sightlines, GBH’s news and analysis reporting, and an international team of reporters to award-winning results year after year. He’s also the director of the North American Guild of Beer Writers. His reporting has helped make ambiguous trends and emerging consumer behaviors more tangible, relevant, and actionable for business leaders.
Ambassador experts
We’ve brought together a compelling mix of experts from a variety of fields and perspectives to help launch the Sightlines professional community. These folks serve as our go-to sources for insight and analysis, and they’re available to you in community channels to help prioritize effective conversations.
Andrew Emerton
New Belgium Specialty Brand Manager
Dr. J. Nikol-Beckham
Craft x EDU
Recruiting
Scott Metzger
CEO Wormtown
brewery operations
Chase Brooks
Liquid Collective
hard seltzer, cider, innovation
Andrews Cope
Flying Saucer
chain retail marketing
Kristen Foster
HR and retail expansion
Collin McDonnell Henhouse Brewing, growth and distribution
Julie Verratti
Denizens
co-founder,
BA Board member,
self-distro, brewpub operations
Donn Bichsel
Former CCO Revolution Brewing
sales and distribution
Andy Schwartz
Brewmaster
Dockside Brewery
Former Redhook, Stony Creek, Left Coast
brewing and team building
Phil McFarland
Former VP,
Half Acre
Co-founder Smallbar
consumer insights, marketing, retail
Derek Imes
Mocama Beer Co., Creature Comforts co-founder, former Terrapin board member, finance
Andrew Zens
Grassroots
talent acquisition and cannabis
Suzanne Schalow
Craft Beer Cellar
co-founder, retail
Ashley Brandt
Goldstein & McClintock LLLP
brewery law
Xavier Alexander
Metric Coffee
Hellion Cold Brew
coffee and sourcing