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Welcome To Our NEW Website!
Queen City Brewfest Site Thanks for visiting the new site! As you can tell, we’ve finally done away with the old place holder page and stepped up to a fully functioning site that contains all the info...
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Birdsong Brewing Prepares to Take Flight
New Sign Outside the Brewery Greeted by its mascot, “Cheez-It”, we immediately sensed a positive vibe walking into the Birdsong brewery. Conor Robinson, Birdsong’s head brewer, put a batch of reclaimed...
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Coffee With Kind Beers
Queen City Brewers Festival paid a visit to the Pineville headquarters of Kind Beers for a meeting with owner Terry Bumbaugh. Terry starts his day early and travels regularly, so his freshly brewed...
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No Doubt About NoDa Brewing Company
“Watch your feet, we’ve got kegs going out the door,” NoDa Brewing owner Todd Ford warned with a friendly gesture as Assistant Brewer Matt Virgil weaved a hand truck around the end of the bar. It was...
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Hops In Matthews
Queen City Brewers Festival steered its way eastbound and dropped in at Hops in Matthews, NC. The bar, which has a Cheers-esque feel, was without an open seat on this bustling Thursday evening. Head...
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Talking Beer With Darrin Pikarsky
Queen City Brewers Festival caught up with beer event extraordinaire, Darrin Pikarsky. The founder of the Charlotte Beer Club, Charlotte Craft Beer Week and the upcoming Charlotte SantaCon, Darrin...
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The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery: Pioneers of the Local Craft Beer Revival
After a hiatus in which the Queen City had no functioning breweries, The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery started the Charlotte-area on a path that has seen six new breweries start up since 2008. Owner John...
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Ass Clown Brewing Company Has Its Ph.D., In Craft Beer
What Ass Clown Brewing Company lacks in production size is made up in its wide range of mind-bending flavors and styles. Queen City Brewers Festival visited owner Matt Glidden at his nondescript...
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Rediscovering Rock Bottom
The greater-Charlotte area has been blessed with several new breweries, but Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery (401 N. Tryon Street) is Uptown’s longest-standing source for fresh and original craft...
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Happy Hour with Heist Brewery
Heist Brewery joined the Queen City Brewers Festival lineup just a week before the Feb. 4th event date, making its first-ever beer tasting festival appearance in the process. The brewpub is slated to...
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Working Overtime with Triple C Brewing Company
Queen City Brewers Festival scheduled an overtime shift with the guys at Triple C Brewing Co. After an impressive showing at North Carolina Brewers and Music Festival, which featured their flagship...
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News and Notes QCBF 2013
With 80 degree temps, it sure hasn’t felt like it, but we’re just one season away from winter and that means Queen City Brewers Festival (QCBF) 2013 is coming up in the not too distant future –...
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Four Friends Brewing Serves Up Passion in Every Pint
“First established, but not first to sell,” head brewer and the hardest working of the Friends, Jon Fulcher, jokes as we begin our conversation. A group of about 15 green-thinking and environmentally...
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QCBF 2013 Tickets Announcement
Tickets On Sale Thursday, Dec. 6 at 11am Charlotte will be on tap as the 2nd annual Queen City Brewers Festival (QCBF) returns to the Neighborhood Theatre (511 E. 36th Street, Charlotte, NC, 28205),...
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Kombucha 101 with Lenny Boy Tea
Step foot inside the Lenny Boy tap room and it’s as if you’re kicking back in a friend’s cozy living room. Charlotte’s first and only Kombucha Tea brewery – named after owner Townes Mozer’s faithful...
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Free Range Brewing is cooking up an original
Charlotte’s most anticipated brewpub-in-planning seeks to raise the bar with its farm-to-table menu and beers made with locally sourced ingredients. Brothers Jason and Jeff Alexander bring their...
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Event Preview – QCBF 2013
Event Preview – QCBF 2013 In just over 48 hours we will be banding wrists, opening the doors and getting to the pours! If you were not able to get your hands on a ticket, rest assured we are in the...
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Carolina Beer Temple is Open for Worship
We can thank Microsoft for personal computing as we know it, but did you know we can also thank the software behemoth for the Carolina Beer Temple in Matthews, NC? Thanks to frequent work travels to...
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