What’s New in NC?

I wanted to make a thread where we can post pics and news about the latest beers, tap lists, and openings in NC.



Motivations are two-fold. One, I recently became jr. admin for North Carolina. For those that don’t know, whenever a new beer gets added to the database it is marked unverified until an admin checks and verifies its existence. Posting pics to beers/tap lists will help make that process much easier and make the database more accurate.



Two, I’m hoping this will help us keep each other in the know about the latest in our different areas of NC. I like getting snapshots of what I could have missed in my area and what’s going on in other parts.

As an example, here’s something jcnielsen sent me when I was having trouble verifying the ever-changing lineup of Ass Clown:










Heist Brewery in Charlotte regularly releases experimental beers. Here was their list of limited releases when I was there last weekend:

Good idea for a thread! I stopped by NoDa on Monday. They had some interesting new beers available in the taproom - an imperial oyster stout (collab with Front Street in Wilmington), a caramel imperial stout, a belgian table beer with apricots, and a solid new pilsener.

Nice. I have trips to Charlotte and Asheville coming up, I’ll contribute what I can.

Originally posted by jcnielsen
Good idea for a thread! I stopped by NoDa on Monday. They had some interesting new beers available in the taproom - an imperial oyster stout (collab with Front Street in Wilmington), a caramel imperial stout, a belgian table beer with apricots, and a solid new pilsener.

I updated Birdsong’s address (although another option would be to close that location and open a new one, to keep the place ratings separate - which could still be done if folks think that’s the way to go).
Strangely, the map still shows them at the 26th St location across from NoDa. I assume this will fix itself over time.

I was in the Boone area for a race over the weekend and stopped at Lost Province and Appalachian Mountain in Boone afterwards. Both places had 12 beers on tap.

I grabbed a 4-beer flight at Lost Province, and was very impressed by the Lost Province IPA and the Alpine Meadows Saison. I would have liked to have tried more of the beers, but decided to stop by Appalachian Mountain instead.



Also tried a 4-beer flight at Appalachain Mountain. Really liked the gose they had on tap, but picked up DMS in a couple of the other beers on the flight as well as a bomber I took home. Would’ve been nice to have tried a few more to see if that was a problem across the board or just a couple isolated beers.

4x4 flight for $6 at Lost Province? Sweet!

I also love that gose has really picked up and more NC breweries are doing them (apparently well too).

Foothills just opened a new taproom a few days ago. I haven’t visited yet, but it looks completely different from the brewpub (in a better way, in my opinion). Lots of space, way more taps, and most of the one-offs and exclusives will be there. It’s still in Winston-Salem but not downtown and has plenty of outside seating too.

http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2015/05/01/foothills-brewings-new-tasting-room-offers-a-look.html?page=all

"Now complete, it offers a lineup of close to 30 Foothills beers on tap" - They are really going all in on offering more beer selection.


I saw this article when looking into breweries in Boone, and maybe others are more familiar:

http://www.wataugademocrat.com/news/ivory-tower-brewery-set-to-move-ahead/article_ed7e5e9a-89f3-11e4-9f95-c70dfd3bce1a.html

Interesting concept. Setting up a brewery associated with the fermentation sciences program at Appalachian St. I’m not aware of any other university programs that also sell the beer commercially.