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Background NoDa Brewing is located near the, you guessed it, NoDa (North Davidson) neighborhood, Charlotte’s arts and entertainment district. It was founded in 2011 by beer enthusiast couple Suzie and Todd Ford. The brewery is situated behind an office building off …
Update Another one bites the dust, Wicked Weed Funkatorium. We should be getting used to it, AB InBev purchasing Craft Breweries. The early turncoats were smaller breweries that grew large but in my book were not one of the aristocracy …
Background The Outer Banks Brewing began as a concept in 1992 while the founders, Eric Reece and Aubrey Davis were Peace Corps volunteers alongside Tina Mackenzie in Thailand. Aubrey had grown up spending summers at his grandparents’ place on the …
Background Wooden Robot is the brainchild of Dan Wade and Josh Patton. Dan is a seasoned brewmaster with a Master of Science in brewing from a Scotland University. While there, he toured Europe where he grew to love farmhouse ales. Josh …
Background In 2010 Chris & Tara Goulet grew tired of the corporate grind and started formulating an idea of a brewpub. Conor Robinson was identified as the head brew master. Birdsong Brewing started in 2011 with just two full-time employees. After …
Background Phil Buchy and Newton Carver opened Legion Brewing in December 2015 in the former Brodt Music building. Brodt Music produced sheet music. Some good history here. Much of the interior has design elements repurposed from materials used in the factory. It is a cozy tavern …
Background Heist Brewing founder Kurt Hogan opened the doors in 2012 in a historic Highland Park Mill No. 3 building, once home to the largest textile mill in Charlotte. The story goes that the Heist name was inspired by notorious 1930s …
Background – Ponysaurus Brewing The story goes, Keil Jansen began brewing in an attic space above The Cookery owned by Nick Johnson. In 2015, Keil joined with David Baldwin and Nick Hawthorne-Johnson and opened Polysaursus Brewing. The trio turned a former warehouse …
Background Uli Bennewitz came to North Carolina in the early-1980s and decided to open a microbrewery similar to the ones he’d left behind in Bavaria. The only problem was that it was illegal in North Carolina for a brewery to …
On the drive from Durham to the Outer Banks we discovered the perfect place to stop and take a break. In the rural community of Rocky Mount there is a cute little gastropub called Sweet Taters. It is a charming …
