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People love to review beers. Here they are with some recent reviews of North Carolina brews.
Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout
Natty Greene’s Old Town Brown
My favorite line is “some old dude with a white wig on.”
Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout
Blowing Rock High Rock Ale
Big Boss Harvest Time
Duck Rabbit Porter
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Winter & Holiday Beers
Nov 30
This is an update of my winter beer post from 2010. This time I’ve included label art and photos whenever they we’re available.
Here is a score card of Christmas and Winter brews in the North Carolina Beer scene with commercial descriptions from each respective brewery (except where noted).
How many have you tried?
HIGHLAND Cold Mountain Winter Ale
Our ever-changing spiced winter seasonal. A tasty brew that complements all your holiday festivities. It is typically malty in body, lightly hopped, and rounded out with spices that we vary from year to year.
OUTERBANKS BREWING COMPANY Santa’s Little Sledgehammer
A deep red Strong Ale boosted with Belgian Candi Sugar, fermented with Trappist Ale yeast and finished with ‘secret spices’! It’s smooth and creamy-rich, with a warm and
chewy texture and subtle spiciness. (10% abv.)
LONERIDER Belle Starr Dubbel
Be wary of Starr’s smile, there is something sinister behind her innocent look. Belle Starr is a Belgian-style Dubbel brewed with a rare Belgian yeast strain, caramelized beet sugar and festive holiday spices. Expect hints of dark fruit, sweet cinnamon-apple and a warming finish. ABV is 7.7%
MOTHER EARTH Silent Night Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Embellished with a hint of coffee and a touch of molasses, you’ll enjoy a bold, yet delightfully smooth brew. I pronounce this Barrel Aged Imperial Stout a sipper.
OLDE HICKORY Christmas Ale
Brewed with fond memories of fresh baked cakes and cookies, our Christmas Ale is made with local honey, freshly grated ginger and cinnamon and fresh orange zest. This special holiday beer is perfect for the merry season and best enjoyed in the company of friends and family.
ASHEVILLE BREWING Xmas Jam White Ale
Low-alcohol (4.5 percent ABV), Belgian-style wheat beer dosed with coriander and orange peel. This aromatic treat is as cloudy as a San Francisco morn, with vibrant carbonation and a twangy edge that hums on your tongue. (description from Slashfood)
OLDE MECKLENBURG Brewery Yule Bock
Get your goat on with this holiday special. Nothing warms you around the Christmas fire better than this super smooth, malty lager. But supplies are limited so make sure you get yours early. 7% ABV.
WEEPING RADISH Doppelbock
A very strong and rich lager; dark brown with ruby highlights. Brewed with over 50% Munich malt. A Bavarian specialty first brewed in Munich by the monks of St. Francis of Paula. (8.3% ABV)
NATTY GREENE’S Red Nose Winter Warmer
A winter warmer with a nice nutty malt / spice balance! Coming in slightly above 6% abv tastes like winter … smells like Christmas with nutmeg and ginger notes. (Craft Beer Collective – Dave)
CAROLINA BREWERY Santa’s Secret
Our winter ale, brewed especially for the holidays, boasts a combination of six different malts all working together to produce a rich beer with a soft creamy mouthfeel. Without revealing all of Santa’s secrets, we can say that this tasty elixer contains a careful blend of coriander, cinnamon, orange and allspice. We think you’ll agree – it’s the closest thing to Christmas in a glass.
AVIATOR FrostNipper
Our interpretation of a fall seasonal beer. This beer will curl your toes and put goosebumps on your arms. A fine collection of traditional fall spices make this a great addition to the holiday season…it will make all humbugs cheery. The beer is dark in color…a bit darker than brown ale. There is a combination of Perle and Willamette hops to provide a contrasting intensity with the fall spices. The beer contains a generous amount of smoked malt. (7.3% ABV)
Just because they don’t have Santa Clause and snow flakes on their labels doesn’t mean that Foothills, Big Boss are not making winter brews:
FOOTHILLS Total Eclipse Stout
Robust full bodied stout made with roasted barley, black and crystal malts. Total Eclipse has a full mouth feel and a well balanced hop bitterness.
BIG BOSS Aces and Ates Coffee Stout
Our winter stout is brewed with ten different malts to create a complex and distinctive beer. We add organic fair-trade coffee, which is specially produced for Big Boss by coffee experts Larry’s Beans. We offer this synergistic seasonal brew for a limited time in the winter season. 8% abv
Do you have some other labels for me? CBC? Send them my way!!
WINTER & HOLIDAY RELEASE BREWS FROM 2010
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Here are some of the biggest North Carolina Beer stories to hit the net in September.
NC BEER IS BIG NEWS
The News and Observer points out what we already know: North Carolina Breweries are seeing growth. There are about 49 breweries and brewpubs in North Carolina – a number that has been quickly growing, said Anna Lockhart, executive director of the N.C. Brewers Guild.
“In the Southeast, we’re really ahead of the curve,” Lockhart said. “Our craft brewing industry got a late start compared to states like Oregon and California. Even though we’ve come onto the scene a little bit later, in the next 10 to 15 years or so we’ll catch up.”
Most of the state’s breweries and brewpubs are concentrated around Asheville and the Triangle, where there are more than a dozen.
http://www.newsobserver.com
LONERIDER RECOGNIZED
The LoneRider Brewing Company in Raleigh started more than two years ago with a dream and a plan.
Now, the small microbrewery is a success story, churning out three core beers, including Shotgun Betty and the award-winning Sweet Josey Brown.
“We were home brewers and beer geeks,” founder Sumit Vohra said of he and his two business partners.
The three combined their passion for microbrews and a booming craft beer market in North Carolina.
“Just in the first six months of the year, the revenue is up 15 percent,” Vohra said.
The LoneRider Brewing Company was one of 25 small businesses from across the state recognized as one of 25 “Companies to Watch” by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development during a ceremony at the American Tobacco campus in Durham on Wednesday. The CED recognized businesses with between 10 and 100 employees.
http://www.wral.com/
NATTY GREENE’S CONTRIBUTES TO GREENSBORO ECONOMYNatty co-owner gets nod from DGI for improvements to Greensboro.
DGI named Chris Lester, co-owner of Natty Greene’s, as the 2011 Jim Roach Downtown Person of the Year for his work promoting South Elm Street, where Natty Greene’s is located.
Lester is in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival, and Daniel Craft accepted on his behalf. Craft, president of Craft Insurance Center, and John Lomax, president of Lomax Construction, took the initiative to remodel the building at 345 S. Elm St. that now houses Natty Greene’s.
Craft noted that the stretch of South Elm Street from the 200 block to the 800 block contains a wealth of historic buildings, but unfortunately some are poorly maintained.
“It’s a shame that we don’t care more about that core street,” Craft said.
http://www.bizjournals.com
MOTHER EARTH NAME CONTROVERSY
Another story has surfaced, this time from WITN: VIDEO
A popular Kinston brewery says it won’t have to change its name, even though it lost a trademark dispute with another closely-named brewery on the other side of the country.
The owners of Mother Earth Brewing in Kinston aren’t saying much about last month’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s decision which dismissed its trademark invalidation case against Mother Earth Brew of Vista, California. The California company says it can now ask Mother Earth Brewing to stop using the name. Both are microbreweries.
Daniel Love, from the Mother Earth in California, tells WITN News that he trademarked his name 30 days before the Kinston Mother Earth did so in 2009. Love says the trademark case was dismissed on August 22nd “with prejudice”, according to Love that means the Kinston company cannot appeal.
When contacted Monday, Trent Morgan in Kinston said he couldn’t speak with us about legal matters.
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NC BEER IS BIG NEWS
The News and Observer points out what we already know: North Carolina Breweries are seeing growth. There are about 49 breweries and brewpubs in North Carolina – a number that has been quickly growing, said Anna Lockhart, executive director of the N.C. Brewers Guild.
“In the Southeast, we’re really ahead of the curve,” Lockhart said. “Our craft brewing industry got a late start compared to states like Oregon and California. Even though we’ve come onto the scene a little bit later, in the next 10 to 15 years or so we’ll catch up.”
Most of the state’s breweries and brewpubs are concentrated around Asheville and the Triangle, where there are more than a dozen.
http://www.newsobserver.com
LONERIDER RECOGNIZED
The LoneRider Brewing Company in Raleigh started more than two years ago with a dream and a plan.
Now, the small microbrewery is a success story, churning out three core beers, including Shotgun Betty and the award-winning Sweet Josey Brown.
“We were home brewers and beer geeks,” founder Sumit Vohra said of he and his two business partners.
The three combined their passion for microbrews and a booming craft beer market in North Carolina.
“Just in the first six months of the year, the revenue is up 15 percent,” Vohra said.
The LoneRider Brewing Company was one of 25 small businesses from across the state recognized as one of 25 “Companies to Watch” by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development during a ceremony at the American Tobacco campus in Durham on Wednesday. The CED recognized businesses with between 10 and 100 employees.
http://www.wral.com/
NATTY GREENE’S CONTRIBUTES TO GREENSBORO ECONOMYNatty co-owner gets nod from DGI for improvements to Greensboro.
DGI named Chris Lester, co-owner of Natty Greene’s, as the 2011 Jim Roach Downtown Person of the Year for his work promoting South Elm Street, where Natty Greene’s is located.
Lester is in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival, and Daniel Craft accepted on his behalf. Craft, president of Craft Insurance Center, and John Lomax, president of Lomax Construction, took the initiative to remodel the building at 345 S. Elm St. that now houses Natty Greene’s.
Craft noted that the stretch of South Elm Street from the 200 block to the 800 block contains a wealth of historic buildings, but unfortunately some are poorly maintained.
“It’s a shame that we don’t care more about that core street,” Craft said.
http://www.bizjournals.com
MOTHER EARTH NAME CONTROVERSY
Another story has surfaced, this time from WITN: VIDEO
A popular Kinston brewery says it won’t have to change its name, even though it lost a trademark dispute with another closely-named brewery on the other side of the country.
The owners of Mother Earth Brewing in Kinston aren’t saying much about last month’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s decision which dismissed its trademark invalidation case against Mother Earth Brew of Vista, California. The California company says it can now ask Mother Earth Brewing to stop using the name. Both are microbreweries.
Daniel Love, from the Mother Earth in California, tells WITN News that he trademarked his name 30 days before the Kinston Mother Earth did so in 2009. Love says the trademark case was dismissed on August 22nd “with prejudice”, according to Love that means the Kinston company cannot appeal.
When contacted Monday, Trent Morgan in Kinston said he couldn’t speak with us about legal matters.
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AUGUST NC BEER NEWS
Aug 31
Here are some of the better stories to make their way around the North Carolina beer world.
Asheville Scene in WSJ
Asheville, a Blue Ridge Mountain town of 75,000, has 10 breweries, with two on the way. That can’t compare with the 40 in Portland, Ore., but it stacks up to other beer havens like Milwaukee and Boulder, Colo., which both have fewer than a dozen. “Asheville is definitely on the map and well recognized in the craft-brewing industry,” says Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association in Boulder.
Full story on: online.wsj.com
Nantahala Brewing Company
Nantahala brewer Chris Collier explains his story and why North Carolina is a great place for beer in the south:
“Basically, the reason I went to North Carolina is threefold: You can self-distribute, we can have a taproom and sell off-premise, and as you grow your business, you can write your contract anyway you want,” Collier said.
Collier estimates North Carolina has more breweries and brewpubs than the rest of its Southern neighbors combined.
“That is not coincidence,” he said.
Brewers pay expensive excise taxes — about $25 per keg — on their beer, but it is a price that allows them to operate their businesses with relative freedom
READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE
CONGRATS TO Jason McCammon
The Hendersonville, N.C., resident, who will turn 30 in a couple of weeks, now has something else to celebrate besides the milestone birthday.
His award-winning home-brew — a German-style dark lager called Monkey’s Uncle Munich Dunkel — has been released commercially by Olde Hickory Brewery and is available at a few Asheville-area bars and restaurants.
In late April, McCammon’s beer won a Best of Show gold medal at the Olde Hickory Pro-Am home-brew competition, beating out 130 other entries from the Southeast.
COMPLETE STORY
FOOTHILLS EXPANSION
Video from WXII shows Foothills staffers at brewpub and new production facility in Winston Salem.
http://www.wxii12.com/r-video/28781866/detail.html
Brewmaster Jamie Bartholomaus said the brewery has purchased a building off Stratford Road to start bottling its beer. The expansion allows production to move from a 7,000-square-foot space to a 48,000 square-foot-space. The current facility can produce two 22 ounce bottles each minute. The new facility, which will be operational within the next six weeks, will boost production to about 100 bottles per minutes, owners said.
MOTHER EARTH TOUR
Micro Beer Reviews posted this video of the Mother Earth Brewery:
BELT LINE BREW TOURS
Crossdrinker.com posted this video of Beltline Brew tour outside the beltline tour of Durham, featuring Bull City Burger, Fullsteam & Triangle brewing.
TASTY BEVERAGE OPENS
Sean Pratt of Cary, graduated from Cary High School in 2002 and then went to NCSU, graduating in 2007. While studying in Sweden he fell in love with craft and specialty beers. He partnered up with Johnny Belflower (Rocky Mount Senior High School and Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida).
After years of planning they have opened a new shop called Tasty Beverage Company at 327 W. Davie St. Suite 106, in Raleigh in the historic Warehouse District of Downtown Raleigh.
carycitizen.com
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CONGRATS TO Jason McCammon
The Hendersonville, N.C., resident, who will turn 30 in a couple of weeks, now has something else to celebrate besides the milestone birthday.
His award-winning home-brew — a German-style dark lager called Monkey’s Uncle Munich Dunkel — has been released commercially by Olde Hickory Brewery and is available at a few Asheville-area bars and restaurants.
In late April, McCammon’s beer won a Best of Show gold medal at the Olde Hickory Pro-Am home-brew competition, beating out 130 other entries from the Southeast.
COMPLETE STORY
FOOTHILLS EXPANSION
Video from WXII shows Foothills staffers at brewpub and new production facility in Winston Salem.
http://www.wxii12.com/r-video/28781866/detail.html
Brewmaster Jamie Bartholomaus said the brewery has purchased a building off Stratford Road to start bottling its beer. The expansion allows production to move from a 7,000-square-foot space to a 48,000 square-foot-space. The current facility can produce two 22 ounce bottles each minute. The new facility, which will be operational within the next six weeks, will boost production to about 100 bottles per minutes, owners said.
MOTHER EARTH TOUR
Micro Beer Reviews posted this video of the Mother Earth Brewery:
BELT LINE BREW TOURS
Crossdrinker.com posted this video of Beltline Brew tour outside the beltline tour of Durham, featuring Bull City Burger, Fullsteam & Triangle brewing.
TASTY BEVERAGE OPENS
Sean Pratt of Cary, graduated from Cary High School in 2002 and then went to NCSU, graduating in 2007. While studying in Sweden he fell in love with craft and specialty beers. He partnered up with Johnny Belflower (Rocky Mount Senior High School and Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida).
After years of planning they have opened a new shop called Tasty Beverage Company at 327 W. Davie St. Suite 106, in Raleigh in the historic Warehouse District of Downtown Raleigh.
carycitizen.com
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TWIN CITY TAPS FEST
Jul 29
PRESS RELEASE FOR TWIN CITY TAPS FESTIVAL IN WINSTON SALEM ON AUGUST 13:
Nearly Two Dozen North Carolina Brewers Lined Up for Twin City Taps
Twin City Taps has enlisted 21 breweries that will be on hand to pour craft beers and talk about them during the Aug.13 beer festival at BB&T Ballpark. Participating breweries as of July 25 include:
Aviator Brewing Company
Big Boss Brewing Company
Carolina Blonde
Carolina Brewery
Craggie Brewing Company
Foothills Brewing
Four Friends Brewing
French Broad Brewing Company
Fullsteam,
Green Man Brewery,
Highland Brewing Company, Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, Loes Brewing Company, LoneRider Brewing Company, Mother Earth Brewing Company, Mystery Brewing Company, Natty Greene’s Pub & Brewing Company, Olde Hickory Brewery, Red Oak Brewery, Roth Brewing Company, The Duck- Rabbit Craft Brewery, The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, Weeping Radish Farm Brewing “We’ve lined up some of the best regional beer producers to be at Twin City Taps,” Josh Neelon of Twin City Taps said. “Just this week, additional breweries have signed up to come to Twin City Taps, so the list of great craft brewers attending our event is likely to continue to grow.
“Twin City Taps is featuring only craft beer brewers from North Carolina to assure that the quality of the beer served will be outstanding,” Neelon added. “Similar to the exceptional quality of the beer, we want the overall experience at Twin City Taps to be a great one. To that end, we’re selling a maximum of 4,000 tickets to ensure that all guests have easy access to parking, restrooms, food and most importantly of all, cold beer.”
Musical performers slated for Twin City Taps include: Possum Jenkins, Old Southern Moonshine Revival, Da Stateside Lion Reggae Band and Brickfoot Down.
General admission tickets to Twin City Taps are $35, and VIP tickets are $55.
For more information or to purchase tickets please visit www.TwinCityTaps.com, call 336.714.6871 or go to the box office at BB&T Ballpark.
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