When I first arrived in Durham over 20 years ago, it was pretty sleepy. Downtown, beautiful old buildings were boarded up, and after the offices closed each day, the place was a ghost town. There was some good food to be found, but craft beer was almost unknown in North Carolina: I could count our
Tickets are now available for the 21st annual World Beer Festival Durham, held at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park on Saturday, Oct. 15. In early September, while joining Hillary Clinton on campaign stops through North Carolina, Bill Clinton made a beer run at the Durham Co-op Market. For two minutes, a store employee showed him cooler shelving
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