There was a time when Asheville was more ghost town than beer city, when its downtown was marked not by breweries but by boarded-up windows. “There was a lot of drug dealing going on downtown,” recalls John Lyda, vice president at Highland Brewing. “It was pretty rundown. You didn’t go downtown very often.” Then things
Tickets are now available for the 12th annual World Beer Festival Raleigh, held at the N.C. State Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 1. For years, barbecue was the first culinary item people might have considered when thinking of North Carolina, but that has changed. Now one of the fastest growing states in the beer industry, the
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) One of downtown Greensboro’s most popular restaurants and breweries, Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, is expanding. Natty Greene’s unveiled its plans Thursday for Natty’s Brewhouse Pavilion, a new single-story brewery that it plans to build not far from its current location on South Elm Street. It will feature an interior brewhouse space […]