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. After visiting breweries in Durham, North Carolina, here are some of the beer bars and bottle shops worth exploring. Bottle Shops The patriarch of local bottle shops, Sam’s Quik Shop (1605 Erwin Road) has been supplying
This article appears in the beer guide for the World Beer Festival Durham, produced by All About Beer Magazine. We hope you'll join us in Durham on Saturday, Oct. 10 to sample from more than 250 beers and ciders. In 2013, Andrew Fisher was on the final leg of a cross-country trip, moving from Denver, Colorado,