Beer, wine, liquor.... produced in or around North Carolina.
What say you?




Duck Rabbit is wonderful.
CBC is a great Wake County beer.
I forget the name of the NC wine I recently had.
...and how about liquor? I'll admit that I don't know anything about NC distilleries.

5/25/2010 1:31:16 AM

5/25/2010 1:38:55 AM

dat 190% bathtub juice

5/25/2010 2:25:24 AM

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" I'll admit that I don't know anything about NC distilleries."

You're just going to the wrong mountain enclaves.

I like Big Boss beer a lot.

Also lol:

5/25/2010 6:10:31 AM

aviator isn't bad, and it's in fuquay

i actually really like mother earth brewing in kinston

there's also red oak (LOVE red oak) in whitsett (between burlington and greensboro) and highland in asheville

[Edited on May 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM. Reason : .]

5/25/2010 8:04:12 AM

Catdaddy moonshine has a very unique taste... I remember it being spicy. I haven't tried the Midnight Moon made by the same distiller (Piedmont Distillers).



Red Oak is my go to draft beer. I also just read they are selling it bottled in certain places now, I'll have to check it out in the bottle.

5/25/2010 8:09:04 AM

i like almost all of the owl's eye stuff...they sold a blackberry wine at the wine festival that actually tasted very good (not like wild vines or boone's farm stuff, but actual fermented blackberries...it was pretty tasty)

http://www.owlseyevineyard.com/

5/25/2010 8:16:49 AM

Big Boss

5/25/2010 1:47:07 PM

http://www.duplinwinery.com/

5/25/2010 1:53:08 PM

http://www.biltmore.com/our_wine/

dont know how that hasnt been posted yet

5/25/2010 2:11:31 PM

Yep, Biltmore makes some good wines, definitely.

For beer--Red Oak (and their others, Battlefield Bock and Hummin' Bird) are quite good. CBC in Holly Springs (Carolina Pale Ale, Carolina Nut Brown) makes a good product, as does Big Boss. Lots of folks are fans of Highland Brewing Co. in Asheville, I've not had many of their beers but the ones I've tried have been good. Duck Rabbit is excellent, as you said. Lonerider, a new-ish brewery in Raleigh, also makes some fine products--their Shotgun Betty hefeweizen is excellent.

5/25/2010 4:58:04 PM

duplin county wine

5/25/2010 5:21:04 PM

^yuck, NC has no business growing grapes for wine

5/25/2010 5:39:04 PM

Childress Vineyards

5/25/2010 5:46:19 PM

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"^yuck, NC has no business growing grapes for wine"

Tell that to the Yadkin Valley.

5/25/2010 5:49:37 PM

^or you could just save some money and water down some wild irish rose

5/25/2010 5:56:01 PM

CBC tour in Holly Springs with free beer at 1pm on Saturday -> then head 10 mins down the road to Aviator tour in Fuquay at 3pm



THEN NAP

5/25/2010 6:10:03 PM

French Broad Kolsch is my favorite NC beer.

5/25/2010 6:10:18 PM

I'm drinking a pretty delicious Mother Earth IPA right now

5/25/2010 7:01:36 PM

Natty Greene's beers are not great, but they're made in Greensboro

Foothills Brewing's beers are awful, they are made in Winston

5/25/2010 9:07:55 PM

Try some local brews at Raleigh Wide Open!
Hargett St & Fayetteville St. (Flying Saucer)

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"Beer and Wine Tasting Festival – Hargett Street - $10 entry fee RWO 5 Brewery and Beers Listing Carolina Brewery (Chapel Hill, NC) Carolina Brewing Co. (Holly Springs, NC) - Pale Ale IPA; Summer Wheat; Nut Brown Ale Big Boss Brewing Co. (Raleigh, NC) - Blanco Diablo; Bad Penny Brown Ale; High Roller IPA Boston Beer Co. (Boston, MA) - Boston Lager; Sam Summer; Pale Ale; Blackberry Witbier Mad River Brewing Co. (Blue Lake, CA) - Steelhead Extra Pale Ale; Jamaica Red; Steelhead Double IPA Abita Brewing Co. (Abita Springs, LA) - Purple Haze; Andy Gator Dopplebock; Jockamo IPA The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery (Farmville, NC) - Milk Stout; Amber Ale; Brown Ale Sweetwater Brewing Co. (Atlanta, GA) - 420 Extra Pale Ale; Blue; IPA Gordon Biersch Brewing Co. (San Jose, CA) -Marzen; Sommerbrau; Czech Pilsner; Hefeweizen Stoudt’s Brewing Co. (Adamstown, PA) - American Pale Ale; German-Style Pilsener Smuttynose Brewing Co. (Portsmouth, NH) - IPA; Old Brown Dog Natty Greene’s of Raleigh (Raleigh, NC) Lagunitas Brewing Co. (Petaluma, CA) - IPA; Downtown Pale Ale Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem, NC) - Torch Pilsner; People’s Porter; Hurricane Hefe; Hoppyum IPA Charleston Brewing Co. (Charleston, SC) Triangle Brewing Co. (Durham, NC) LoneRider Brewing Company (Raleigh, NC) - Shotgun Betty Hefeweizen; Peacemaker “West Coast Style American Pale Ale”;Sweet Josie “American Brown Style” Blue Point Brewing Co. (Patchogue, NY) - Toasted Lager; Hoptical Illusion; Blueberry Ale; Rasta FaRye Ale Roth Brewing Company (Raleigh, NC ) Blackthorn (Somerset, England) - Blackthorn Cider"

[Edited on July 31, 2010 at 8:46 AM. Reason : ]

7/31/2010 8:44:18 AM

Stoney Mountain Winery ftw

7/31/2010 8:53:34 AM

^^I thought Craggie was gonna be there too?

7/31/2010 10:18:01 AM

surpised this hasn't been posted yet. its good stuff




[Edited on July 31, 2010 at 11:34 AM. Reason : upon further inspection it has been posted already. still good stuff.]

7/31/2010 11:32:11 AM

Highland
Foothills
Triangle and Full Steam (Durham)
Red Oak
Duck Rabbit
Carolina
Big Boss
New Belgium (actually made in CO, but I wish it was from here! Fat Tire= )

8/1/2010 9:15:46 PM

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"Natty Greene's beers are not great, but they're made in Greensboro"

The beers at the Natty Greene's in Raleigh are brewed on site with the possible exception of one or two

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"Foothills Brewing's beers are awful, they are made in Winston"

way to further expose yourself as someone who knows jack shit about good beer.

8/1/2010 11:22:22 PM

hahahhaha

Foothills is goddamn fantastic

Right behind Duck-Rabbit for fave in the state.

Then Highland.

and outside of Battlefield Bock, Red Oak is absolutely terrible.

[Edited on August 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM. Reason : dfdsss]

8/1/2010 11:56:30 PM

p.s. the recently released Duck Rabbit Dopplebock is fantastic.

8/2/2010 12:02:54 AM

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"Natty Greene's beers are not great, but they're made in Greensboro"

wrong. they're delicious.

8/2/2010 12:14:42 AM

I love Red Oak, but I know others do not, and I respect those opinions. It seems to be a love-hate kind of beer.

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"Triangle and Full Steam (Durham)"

Is Fullsteam open yet? I'm looking forward to sampling their beers, and I think they're serving a full menu too IIRC?

8/2/2010 12:34:27 AM

Third vote for Foothills in Winston. Their standard brews are mehh -- Pale Ale, Salem Gold -- but they have some insanely good beers ... their IPA (Hoppyum) and Imperial Stout (Sexual Chocolate) are damn-near perfect creations.

Also love me some Gaelic Ale and Oatmeal Porter from Highland.

Red Oak's Battlefield Bock hits the spot every now and then.

I tend to pass on Natty Greene's stuff, but their Wildflower is a really good summer beer IMO


[Edited on August 2, 2010 at 9:29 AM. Reason : ]

8/2/2010 9:23:47 AM

LoneRider.

Brewery close to Brier Creek right off of Lumley Rd.

Their SHotgun Betty (wheat beer) is delicious, tastes a little of banana and cloves to me

8/2/2010 9:32:42 AM

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"and outside of Battlefield Bock, Red Oak is absolutely terrible."

completely agree.

8/2/2010 9:34:54 AM

Seems like a good place to mention the inaugural NC Beer Festival at Tanglewood this month. Crazy that Kansas is playing at it ... I just assumed they were dead.

http://www.greatncbeerfestival.com/





[Edited on August 2, 2010 at 9:45 AM. Reason : ]

8/2/2010 9:38:50 AM

Don't think anyones mentinoed Pisgah Brewing company. They have some good stuff.

8/2/2010 10:24:37 AM

Shelton Vineyards http://www.sheltonvineyards.com/

8/2/2010 10:36:21 AM

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"Their SHotgun Betty (wheat beer) is delicious, tastes a little of banana and cloves to me "

Tried this last night at the Saucer. It was alright.

8/2/2010 10:41:14 AM

I'm not a big wine guy, but Raylen's Category 5 is excellence:

http://www.raylenvineyards.com/index.php/RayLen-In-The-News/Cat-5-Earns-Praise


Pretty place too. It's in the Yadkin Valley, but not way-the-hell out there (i think it's in Davie County). I definitely recommend a trip there if you're doing the wine-tour thing

8/2/2010 11:45:26 AM

The Mash House and Weeping Radish. I used to enjoy sampling their beers at the world beer festival.

http://www.themashhouse.com/
http://www.weepingradish.com/

[Edited on August 2, 2010 at 12:12 PM. Reason : links]

8/2/2010 12:12:02 PM

http://www.motherearthbrewing.com/

I have tried the Endless River and it was actually pretty good.

[Edited on August 2, 2010 at 4:12 PM. Reason : .]

8/2/2010 4:10:39 PM

Agreed, Red Oak is pretty meh, and I'm not a big fan of anything of Foothills except for the Torch Pils when I want a light beer.

8/2/2010 5:03:48 PM

i spy moonshine

8/2/2010 5:36:21 PM

http://www.yourgnometownbrewery.com/

Heinzelmannchen Brewery in Sylva, NC

8/2/2010 6:56:18 PM

bttt. For you Foothills fans out there, they are now shipping in bottles. Torch Pilsner and Hoppyum started rolling out this week and Baltic Porter and People's Porter just got label approval.

Sam's Quick Shop in Durham is in stock apparently

8/6/2010 8:02:38 AM

HELL YESSSS

it's about damn time.

8/6/2010 9:50:07 AM

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"Sam's Quick Shop in Durham is in stock apparently"

where are you seeing that? I was there yesterday and they definitely didn't have any. They haven't said anything about it on their facebook or twitter page either.

8/6/2010 1:20:54 PM

Looks like you've got to wait a week, at least for the Baltic Porter (which I've never had but have heard good things about).

From Sam's twitter:
You want Foothills' Baltic Porter? You know you do... Only @ Sam's, release party Aug. 13th, 11:30am.

8/6/2010 1:39:36 PM

Yeah I knew about the Baltic Porter release party thing, and I kind of assumed that they would bring hoppyum and torch pilsner bottles that day as well. I wish I could take off work to go out there, but it's just not in the cards. If anyone on here is going and wants to pick me up a bottle I'd make it worth their while.

8/6/2010 1:42:38 PM

Lonerider's Sweet Josie is probably the best brown ale I've ever had

8/6/2010 2:22:33 PM

who here can hook me up with some good shine

8/6/2010 2:31:44 PM