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This week in NC Beer: Mother Earth, LoneRider, and more Charlotte Beer Week!

Mar 18

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Three cool events are rolling your way this week, with the first being today.

Today marks the opening of Mother Earth’s new tap room. It’s located right next to the brewery. Brewer Josh Brewer has this to say: “All four of our staple beers will be on tap along with a cask IPA on hand pump,a barrel aged Imperial IPA blended with a Belgian Tripel along with a sneak peak of our new Belgian Tripel. Come join us!” Even if you’re nowhere near Kinston, it’s probably worth the trip. Help them celebrate this awesome new expansion!

This Sunday, the 21st, as part of Charlotte Craft Beer Week, head on down to the Flying Saucer (in Charlotte, of course) for a benefit to specifically benefit the North Carolina Brewers Guild. There will be a HUGE line up of NC Beers including:

Foothills Torch Pilsner
Foothills Seeing Double IPA
Foothills Red
Highland Gaelic Ale
Highland Oatmeal Porter
Highland Abbey
Red Oak
Battlefield Bock
Olde Mecklenburg Fruh Bock
Duck Rabbit Barleywine
Cottonwood Lowdown Brown
Lonerider Shotgun Betty
Mother Earth Endless River Kolsch
French Broad Wee Heavier
French Broad Rye Hopper
Catawba Valley White Zombie Wit
Catawba Valley Farmer Ted’s Cream Ale
Pisgah Pale Ale
Asheville Pizza and Brewing Shiva IPA
Big Boss Little Larry’s Belgian Pale Ale
Big Boss D’Icer Dunkel-Weizen
Big Boss Monkey Bizz-ness
Green Man IPA
Green Man Porter
Natty Greens Regulator Doppelbock
Natty Greens Salute Stout

All Beers at the event are $2.75 – All kegs tapped at 12pm. Go show your support for the NC Brewers Guild. Representatives and Brewers will be in attendance and Guild Enthusiast memberships will be available, as well.

Finally! Next Saturday, March 27 marks LoneRider Brewery‘s Brew It Forward, Part Deux homebrew competition. Entries are due this Saturday, March 20th but the competition itself is open to the public, if you sign up for a ticket. The short and sweet details:

1. Festivities will begin at 1 PM. There will be music, food, and of course beer
2. Please bring your Eventbrite registration proof for entry
3. Winners of Brew It Forward will be awarded their medals that day
4. If you submitted beers to event your name will be on the list. No need to register
5. Gunslinger Czech Style Pilsner from last years winner (Kevin Consentino) will be available to sample during the event

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Coming up next week in NC Beer – Natty Greene’s in Raleigh and Charlotte Craft Beer Week

Mar 11

Posted by ncbeer in Charlotte, Events, The Triangle | No Comments

There may not be a lot of small individual items coming around this next week, but there are two big ones that should be on your radar.

First, is the official opening of Natty Greene’s in Raleigh. They’ve got a beautiful space, great beers on tap, and easy parking to boot. Go check out their excellent bar and game room, or sit down for some truly excellent food.

The other big event is, of course, Charlotte’s inaugural Craft Beer Week. If you’re in the Charlotte area to get the chance to head down there, do it! Just look at the schedule of events that stretches out over 10 full days! Tastings, classes, beer dinners, releases, and even a chance to benefit the Brewers Guild at the Flying Saucer. It’s an absolute can’t-miss occasion.

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Coming up in NC Beer: Highland Homebrew, Duck-Rabbit Brunch, and Charlotte Craft Beer Week.

Mar 2

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The next two weeks on the NC Beer Calendar are just a small precursor to the end of the month.

Highland is hosting the Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing this weekend and the 3rd Annual Highland Cup. Get your homebrew on and keep an eye on Highland.

On Tuesday, March 9 – head down to Rock Bottom in Charlotte for their Irish Red Lager Tapping Party, from 5:30 – 7:30 and get a little early St. Patrick’s Day action.

Next weekend, head over to The Borough in Raleigh to enjoy a Beer Brunch with Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery.

But start revving your engines now, because the end of the month, March 18 – 28, is the inaugural Charlotte Craft Beer Week. Take a look at the event schedule to whet your appetite. Look for more here about Charlotte’s first Beer Week as we get a little closer to the date.

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NC Beer – Week of February 1st, 2010

Jan 29

Posted by Erik Myers in Charlotte, The Triad | No Comments

Coming up this week in NC Beer:

Monday, February 2nd, 5:30 PM: Brewer’s Select Tapping Party: Rock Bottom Charlotte If you’re in the Charlotte area, head over to Rock Bottom and enjoy their latest beer, and help a good cause at the same time. A note from Rock Bottom Brewmaster David Gonzalez: “The beer is an Extra Special Bitter (ESB). The Charity is Classroom Central (they provide school supplies to needy children in the Charlotte area). For every pack of pencils, colored pencils, or Crayola Markers you bring, you get a ticket to our raffle. ie: bring 5 items, get 5 tickets. We will also donate $1.00 of every ESB sold that day to them.”

Friday, February 5th and Saturday, February 6th: Foothills Sexual Chocolate Release Friday night, bring your favorite rare beers from your beer cellar to Foothills and share them with beer geeks from around the country who are gathering for the 2010 release of Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout. Saturday morning, get in line early, because 1000 bottles of Sexual Chocolate are being sold at the opening of the brewpub (11:00 AM).

Coming later in the month: Check the NC Beer Calendar for upcoming events including back-to-back beer dinners in Durham – Big Boss at the Broad Street Cafe and Mother Earth at Dos Perros – as well as a beer dinner at Rock Bottom in Charlotte. More events are added all the time, keep an eye out here!

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Carolina BrewMasters Make a Generous Contribution to the Brewer’s Guild

Dec 3

Posted by Erik Myers in Charlotte, Press Release | No Comments

Carolina BrewmastersThe North Carolina Brewers Guild is pleased to announce that they have received a generous donation from the Carolina BrewMasters, the state’s largest homebrew club, with over 200 members, based in Charlotte, NC. The donation of $1500, which was part of the proceeds of this year’s Charlotte Oktoberfest, was announced at the group’s December 2nd meeting.

The Charlotte Oktoberfest is in its 11th year and over 6,000 people attended the event this year. “The primary goal of the event is to educate the Charlotte community on the very good craft beers we have available both locally and around the state.” said Benfield. It is 100% volunteer driven, beer and other items available at the event are donated by breweries and distributors. Proceeds raised from the event are donated to various charities and organizations. In addition to the North Carolina Brewers Guild, the club made sizable donations to the local chapter of the National Kidney Foundation and Victory Junction. Each organization will receive $30,000 for a total of $60,000. This is the highest donation from the proceeds of Charlotte Oktoberfest in the history of the Carolina BrewMasters.

“It was our pleasure.” said Benfield, “We feel like a monetary donation is a small part of what our real goal actually is. It was nice to be able to do something in addition to what the Guild would get free from us on the daily basis, anyway: our enthusiasm and support.”

Rick Benfield, President of the Carolina BrewMasters and David Gonzalez, Vice President of the North Carolina Brewers Guild, share a beer.

Rick Benfield, President of the Carolina BrewMasters and David Gonzalez, Vice President of the North Carolina Brewers Guild, share a beer.


President of the North Carolina Brewers Guild, Jamie Bartholomaus of Foothills Brewing Company, and Vice President David Gonzalez of Rock Bottom Charlotte have both expressed their gratitude. “Together the NC Brewers Guild and the Carolina Brewmasters have teamed up to promote beer and brewing in North Carolina,” Gonzalez said, “The Carolina Brewmasters have shown their great support of North Carolina beer by hosting the Charlotte Oktoberfest beer festival for years, and their sizable donation to the NC Brewers Guild shows even further dedication.” Added Bartholomaus, “We look forward to working even more closely with the Carolina BrewMasters in the future to do great things for North Carolina beer.”

For more information on the Carolina Brewmasters, see http://www.carolinabrewmasters.com, on Charlotte Oktoberfest, see http://www.charlotteoktoberfest.com, and on the North Carolina Brewers Guild, see http://www.ncbeer.org.

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