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Apr 26

Posted by craftbeercollective in Brewgrass, Carolina Brewery, Duck-Rabbit, Events, NC Beer News, Video, asheville, foothills, highland, natty greene's | Comments off

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North Carolina Breweries profiled in Garden and Gun Magazine
I’m still not sure what this magazine is about because I didn’t see to many gun and or gardening articles however there was one article in the April/May 2010 issue that profiled NC breweries. Carolina Brewery, Foothills Brewing, Duck Rabbit, Highland Brewing and Natty Greene’s are featured as examples of great Southern breweries and points out that North Carolina is way ahead of the rest of Southern states when it comes to breweries and beer culture. No kidding!

http://gardenandgun.com/

Spring Beer Fling
On May 15TH from 4-8pm there will be a Homebrew Festival to raise funds for the MS Society. From the website: “Tickets are free, however space is limited. So please reserve your spot. And while tickets are free we are raising funds for the MS Society, and a $10 donation is suggested.” Hosted at Night Light – 405 W Rosemary St in Chapel Hill.
http://worldhomebrewfest.com/May.htm

Asheville Brewing
And by now you’ve heard that President Obama spent some time in Asheville over the weekend and the enterprising folks at Asheville Pizza and Brewing made up some bombers called “President’s Spring Break Ale.” More on Mountain Xpress, plus this NBC video clip that mentions the brew:

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2010 Brewgrass Festival
After a little online discussion about moving the date to accommodate local breweries attending Great American Beer Fest, Brewgrass organizers are sticking with the original plan: September 18th, 2010. Brewgrass Festival benefits Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Western North Carolina. Band line up to be announced. Brewgrass is hands down my favorite beer festival. Tickets go on-sale this Saturday through their website: http://www.brewgrassfestival.com/

Foothills Sexual Chocolate in Draft Magazine
I guess the editors of Draft Magazine put together a list of naughty named beers and Winston Salem’s Foothills got the top slot with their Sexual Chocolate stout. How did I miss that one a month ago? Check it out with this link: http://draftmag.com/magazine/articles/130

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Carolina Championship of Beer 2010: Winners

Apr 19

Posted by ncbeer in Events, Festivals | 2 Comments

This past weekend, in near perfect weather, the 8th Annual Hickory Hops festival took place and with it came the announcement of the winners of the Carolina Championship of Beer.

This year’s Carolina Championship of Beer saw nearly 300 beers judged from 40 breweries. All breweries who attended the festival were eligible to enter the CCB competition. North Carolina was best represented with 31 breweries. Georgia sent four and South Carolina had three delegates. Two local distributors – United Beverage and sponsor Best of Beers – entered craft beer from their portfolio. 29 gold medals, 62 silvers and 73 bronze medals were awarded, listed here, in order of category. You may notice that some categories do not have all three medals listed – in those cases only the medals listed were awarded. Categories with multiple listings per medals had multiple beers that scored high enough to medal. Only categories with entries/medals are listed. Any beer that won a gold medal was eligible for Best in Show prizes (listed last).

Category 1: American Cream Ale or Lager
Bronze: Terrapin Brewing Company, Golden Ale
Bronze: Catawba Valley Brewing Company, Farmer Ted’s Cream Ale

Category 2: American-Style Wheat Beer
Silver: Sweetwater Brewing Company, Sch’Wheat

Category 3A: Light American Wheat Ale or Lager with Yeast
Bronze: Carolina Beer and Beverage, Cottonwood American Wheat
Bronze: Best of Beers, Widmer Hefeweizen
Gold: RJ Rockers, Buckwheat Ale
Gold: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Deep River Wheat

Category 3B: Dark American Wheat Ale or Lager with Yeast
Silver: RJ Rockers, Buckwheat After Dark Ale

Category 4A: Fruit Beer
Bronze: Carolina Beer and Beverage, Carolina Strawberry Ale
Bronze: Mash House Brewery and Restaraunt, Raspberry Porter

Category 4B: Fruit Wheat Beer
Bronze: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Blackberry Wheat
Bronze: Mash House Brewery and Restaraunt, Peach Hefeweizen

Category 4D: Pumpkin Beer
Silver: Terrapin Brewing Company, Pumpkin Fest

Category 5A: Herb and Spice Beer
Bronze: Triangle Brewing Company, Habanero Pale Ale
Silver: Moon River, Rosemary Swamp Fox IPA

Category 5B: Chocolate/Cocoa-Flavored Beer
Bronze: Front Street Brewery, Hellmutt
Silver: Heinzelmännchen Brewery, Chocolate Covered Gnome

Category 6: Coffee Flavored Beer
Bronze: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, DeBeen Espresso Stout
Silver: Pisgah Brewing Company, Valdez

Category 8A: American Rye Ale or Lager with or without Yeast
Silver: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Drye Hopped Rye

Category 10: Session Beer
Bronze: Craggie Brewing Company, Battery Hill

Category 11: Other Strong Ale or Lager
Bronze: RJ Rockers, Bell Ringer Ale

Category 12: Experimental Lager or Ale
Gold: Ham’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Blasphemy

Category 13: Out of Category – Traditionally Brewed Beer
Silver: United Beverage, Oskar Blues Old Chub

Category 17A: Wood- and Barrel-Aged Pale to Amber Beer
Bronze: Red Brick, Red Brick 15 Anniversary

Category 17B: Wood- and Barrel-Aged Dark Beer
Silver: Foothills Brewing Company, Bourbon Barrel Total Eclipse Stout

Category 18: Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer
Bronze: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Oaked Decade
Silver: SweetWater, Black Berry Creeper
Silver: Olde Hickory Brewery, Bardstown Brand
Silver: Olde Hickory Brewery, Barrel Aged Imperial Stout

Category 21A: Kellerbier/Zwickelbier – Unfiltered German-Style Lager
Bronze: Front Street Brewery, Organic Keller Pilsner
Bronze: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Dry Hopped Kellerbier
Gold: Craggie Brewing Company, Swannanoa Sunset

Category 21B: Kellerbier/Zwickelbier – Unfiltered German-Style Ale
Gold: Nantahala Brewing Company, Nanny Light

Category 22: Smoked Beer
Silver: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Smoked n’ Oaked Robust Porter

Category 23: International-Style Pilsener
Silver: Olde Hickory Brewery, Piedmont Pilsner
Gold: Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery, Kenan Summer Lager

Category 24: German-Style Pilsener
Bronze: Thomas Creek, Dockside Pilsner
Silver: United Beverage, Oskar Blues Mama’s Little Yella Pils
Gold: Pisgah Brewing Company, German Pilsner

Category 25: Bohemian-Style Pilsener
Bronze: Gordon Biersch, Czech Pilsner
Silver: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Prospector’s Pilsner
Gold: Foothills Brewing Company, Torch Pilsner

Category 26: Munich-Style Helles
Silver: Gordon Biersch, Golden Export

Category 28: American-Style Light Lager
Bronze: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Southern Flyer Light Lager

Category 29: American-Style Lager or Premium Lager
Bronze: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Miss Liberty Lager

Category 32: German-Style Märzen
Silver: Gordon Biersch, Marzen

Category 33A: American-Style Amber Lager
Silver: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Irish Red Ale
Gold: Gordon Biersch, Dampf Bier

Category 33B: California Common Beer
Silver: Nantahala Brewing Company, Nantahala Common

Category 33C: American-Style Märzen/Oktoberfest
Bronze: Boone Brewing Company, Blowing Rock Oktoberfest

Category 34: European-Style Dunkel
Gold: Mother Earth Brewing Company, Dark Cloud Munich Dunkel

Category 36: German-Style Schwarzbier
Bronze: Gordon Biersch, Schwarzbier

Category 37A: Traditional German-Style Bock
Bronze: Boone Brewing Company, Blowing Rock Bock
Bronze: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Winter’s Nip Bock
Bronze: United Beverage, Yuengling Bock Beer

Category 38A: German-Style Doppelbock
Bronze: Pisgah Brewing Company, Doppelbock
Bronze: Thomas Creek, Deep Water Dopplebock
Silver: Olde Hickory Brewery, Dopplebock

Category 39: Baltic-Style Porter
Gold: Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, Porter

Category 40: Golden or Blonde Ale
Bronze: Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Guilford Golden Ale
Bronze: Red Brick, Red Brick Blonde
Gold: SweetWater, 420

Category 41: German-Style Kölsch
Bronze: Huske Hardware House, Level Headed Blonde
Silver: Mother Earth Brewing Company, Endless River Kolsch

Category 42: English-Style Summer Ale
Silver: Boylan Bridge Brewpub, Endless Summer
Silver: RJ Rockers, Light Rock Ale

Category 43: Classic English-Style Pale Ale
Bronze: RJ Rockers, Patriot Pale Ale
Silver: Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery, Iron Mine Pale Ale

Category 44: English-Style India Pale Ale
Bronze: Wedge Brewing Company, Iron Rail
Silver: Highland Brewery, Kashmir IPA

Category 45: American-Style Pale Ale
Bronze: Boone Brewing Company, High Country Ale
Bronze: LoneRider Brewing Company, Peacemaker
Bronze: Olde Hickory Brewery, Table Rock Pale Ale
Bronze: Red Brick, Red Brick Pale Ale
Bronze: Terrapin Brewing Company, Rye Pale Ale
Silver: Hops Restaurant and Brewery, Hops Pale Ale

Category 46: American-Style Strong Pale Ale
Bronze: Ham’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Peg Leg Pale Ale

Category 47: American-Style India Pale Ale
Bronze: Best of Beers, Blue Point IPA
Bronze: Best of Beers, Redhook Long Hammer IPA
Bronze: Pisgah Brewing Company, Pisgah IPA
Bronze: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Stingin’ Brits IPA
Bronze: SweetWater, IPA
Silver: Foothills Brewing Company, Hoppyum IPA
Silver: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, India Pale Ale
Silver: RJ Rockers, Rockhopper IPA
Silver: Terrpain Brewing Company, Hopsecutioner IPA
Silver: Thomas Creek, Class Five IPA

Category 48: Imperial India Pale Ale
Bronze: Green Man/Jack of the Wood, The Truth
Gold: Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Cannonball Double IPA

Category 49: American-Style Amber/Red Ale
Bronze: Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Buckshot Amber Ale
Silver: Highland Brewing Company, Gaelic Ale
Silver: Thomas Creek, Applachian Amber Ale
Gold: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Randolph’s Ride Red Ale

Category 50: Imperial Red Ale
Silver: Triangle Brewing Company, Double Red
Gold: Terrapin Brewing Company, Big Hoppy Monster
Gold: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Decade

Category 52B: Special Bitter
Bronze: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Brewer’s Select ESB
Bronze: Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery, Ellie’s ESB

Category 53A: English-Style Strong Bitter
Bronze: Green Man/Jack of the Wood, Green Man ESB
Silver: Olde Hickory Brewery, ESB

Category 53B: American-Style Strong Bitter
Bronze: Best of Beers, Redhook ESB

Category 54B: Scottish-Style Heavy Ale
Silver: Huske Hardware House, Filthy Kilt Wee Heavy

Category 55: Irish-Style Red Ale
Bronze: Carolina Beer and Beverage, Cottonwood Irish-style Red
Silver: Mash House Restaurant and Brewery, Mash House Red Ale

Category 56: English-Style Brown Ale
Silver: Hops Restaurant and Brewery, Flying Squirrel Nut Brown
Gold: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Nut Brown Ale
Gold: Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Old Town Brown Ale

Category 57: American-Style Brown Ale
Bronze: Ham’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Charlie’s India Brown Ale
Silver: Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, Brown Ale
Silver: Foothills Brewing Company, India Style Brown Ale
Silver: RJ Rockers, Bald Eagle Brown Ale
Gold: LoneRider Brewing Company, Sweet Josie Brown

Category 58: German-Style Altbier
Gold: Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, Copper

Category 60: South German-Style Hefeweizen
Silver: Gordon Biersch, Hefeweizen

Category 61A: South German-Style Kristal Weizen/Kristal Weissbier
Gold: Mash House Restaurant and Brewery, Mash House Kristal

Category 62: Belgian-Style Witbier
Bronze: Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Wildflower Wit Bier
Silver: Triangle Brewing Company, White Ale
Gold: Lexington Avenue Brewery, Whitey

Category 63: French- and Belgian-Style Saison
Silver: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Saison de Wall

Category 64C: French-Style Bière de Garde
Bronze: Huske Hardware House, Farmhouse Ale

Category 65C: Belgian-Style Flanders/Oud Bruin or Oud Red Ale
Silver: Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Farmhouse Ale

Category 66B: Belgian-Style Tripel
Bronze: Pisgah Brewing Company, Solstice

Category 67A: Belgian-Style Pale Strong Ale
Bronze: Wedge Brewing Company, Golem
Silver: Lexington Avenue Brewery, Goldie

Category 67B: Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale
Bronze: SweetWater, BSP
Silver: Pisgah Brewing Company, Cosmos

Category 68: Brown Porter
Bronze: Asheville Brewing Company, Ninja Porter
Bronze: Green Man/Jack of the Wood, Green Man Porter
Silver: Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, Duck-Rabbbit Brown Porter
Silver: Highland Brewing Company, Oatmeal Porter
Gold: Pisgah Brewing Company, Pisgah Porter

Category 69: Robust Porter
Silver: Thomas Creek, Pump House Porter
Silver: Carolina Brewery, Oatmeal Porter
Gold: LoneRider Brewing Company, Deadeye Jack
Gold: Red Brick, Red Brick Oatmeal Porter

Category 70: Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout
Bronze: Best of Beers, Starr Hill Dark Starr Stout
Bronze: Oyster House, Moonstone Oyster Stout

Category 71: Foreign-Style Stout
Bronze: Mash House Restaurant and Brewery, Mash House Stout
Bronze: Triangle Brewing Company, Winter Stout

Category 72: American-Style Stout
Bronze: Foothills Brewing Company, Total Eclipse Stout
Bronze: Green Man/Jack of the Wood: Green Man Stout
Silver: Asheville Brewing Company, Scout Stout
Silver: Boylan Bridge Brewpub, South Bound Stout
Silver: SweetWater, Happy Ending
Gold: Highland Brewing Company, Black Mocha Stout

Category 73: Sweet Stout
Bronze: Rock Bottom: Charlotte, Iron Horse Stout
Silver: Huske Hardware House, Sledgehammer Stout
Silver: Moon River, The Captain’s Porter
Gold: Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout

Category 74: Oatmeal Stout
Bronze: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Oatmeal Stout

Category 75A: British-Style Imperial Stout
Silver: Green Man/Jack of the Wood, Red Star
Silver: Carolina Brewery, Imperial Stout
Silver: Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Black Powder Imperial Stout

Category 75B: American-Style Imperial Stout
Bronze: Olde Hickory Brewery, Imperial Stout
Bronze: RJ Rockers, Black Perle
Bronze: Terrapin Brewing Company, The Dark Side
Silver: Foothills Brewing Company, Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout

Category 76A: Traditional Scotch Ale
Bronze: Front Street Brewery, Dram Tree Scottish Ale

Category 77A: Old Ale
Bronze: Olde Hickory Brewery, Irish Walker

Category 77B: Strong Ale
Bronze: Boylan Bridge Brewpub, Polar Bear Winter Beer

Category 78A: English-Style Barley Wine Ale
Silver: Pisgah Brewing Company, Hellbender

Category 78B: American-Style Barley Wine Ale
Gold: Best of Beers, Redhook Barley Wine Ale
Gold: Wedge Brewing Company, 3rd Rail

Best in Show:
3rd Place: Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Deep River Wheat
2nd Place: Red Brick, Red Brick Oatmeal Porter
1st Place: Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout

Congratulations to all of these breweries!

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NC Breweries Win Multiple Awards at World Beer Cup 2010

Apr 11

Posted by ncbeer in Eastern NC, Events, The Triad, Western NC | No Comments

What is the World Beer Cup? It’s the world’s largest beer competition. I can’t summarize it any better than the Brewers Association press release.

Brewers from six continents earned awards from an elite international panel of judges this week in the 2010 Brewers Association World Beer Cup—the world’s largest-ever commercial beer competition. The eighth bi-annual competition announced awards to brewers from 19 countries ranging from Australia and Italy to Iceland and Japan.

This year, 642 breweries from 44 countries and 47 U.S. states vied for awards with 3,330 beers entered in 90 beer style categories. The entries in each category were eligible for gold, silver and bronze awards. Judges presented a total of 268 awards.

The 2010 World Beer Cup eclipsed the record of the Brewers Association’s own Great American Beer Festival (GABF) to become the largest commercial competition ever. There were 3,308 entries judged in the 2009 GABF, compared to the 2010 World Beer Cup’s 3,330 entries judged.

“Brewers from around the globe participate in the World Beer Cup to win recognition for their creativity and brewing ability,” said Charlie Papazian, president of the Brewers Association, the U.S.-based trade association that has put on the competition every two years since 1996. “For a brewer, a World Beer Cup gold award allows them to say that their winning beer represents the best of that beer style in the world.”

There’s a full World Cup Fact Sheet that you can explore, but let’s get to the important part – the local heroes!

North Carolina came out with three silvers and a gold!

Silver: Herb and Spice Beer or Chocolate Beer
Lemon Grass Wheat Ale
Outer Banks Brewing Station, Kill Devil Hills, NC

Silver: Old Ale
Irish Walker
Olde Hickory Brewery, Hickory, NC

Silver: American-Style Imperial Stout
Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout
Foothills Brewing, Winston-Salem, NC

Gold: Sweet Stout
Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout
The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery Inc., Farmville, NC

Congrats to all of our local winners! Go try some of that beer!

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‘Beltline Brew Tours’ Gets Underway This Saturday.

Mar 29

Posted by ncbeer in Events, The Triangle | No Comments

Long a twinkle in founder William Holland’s eye, Beltline Brew Tours will embark on its first tour this Saturday, April 3rd.

Beltline Brew Tours provides up to 30 people a private tour of 3 different breweries in the Triangle. Customers will meet at a brewery, get on a 30 passenger mini-bus, and enjoy a comfortable ride around the Triangle to visit and support our local breweries. Traveling between breweries will give customers the opportunity to play beer trivia for a chance to win special prizes from Beltline Brew Tours as well as ask questions about the breweries, beer, and brewing in general. At each brewery, customers will be treated to a behind the scenes/”private” look at the facility and get to sample their beer on tap at that given time.

“I am a beer lover, and for years have been aware of many local breweries that the Triangle has to offer,” said Holland, “so, I came up with a way to spread the word, and to do it in a fun and safe way. I’m very excited and pleased to offer this service to anyone and everyone over the legal drinking age.”

Beltline Brew Tours will open with one tour available visiting LoneRider, Triangle Brewery, and Natty Greene’s Brewpub in Raleigh, but they hope to grow to include many more of the numerous microbreweries in the area.

Make sure to book your tour, now!

You can do so online via eTix or through the Beltline Brew Tours website.

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

Mar 18

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

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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