"Boasting more craft breweries than any other state in the American South, North Carolina is the state of Southern beer. In North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries, Erik Lars Myers profiles over 50 brewpubs and breweries statewide, providing useful details like location and contact information, tour times and hours of operation, and the breweries regular lineups of beers and seasonal releases. Myers relates each brewery's history and the vision of its founders. Most importantly, he shares its story, showing how it offers something different or unique. Sidebars about festivals, bottle shops, and other beer-related features like hop farms, cideries, and meaderies show how craft beer is a growing and thriving industry in North Carolina. The book contains bonuses like a glossary of beer-related terms, a beer-styles quick reference guide, and an introduction to craft beer and how it is made. A history and time line of beer and brewing in North Carolina from colonial days (when beer was not widely made, due to the warm climate) through Prohibition to the present day take North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries beyond what readers expect from a local guidebook."--

A guide to over 140 craft breweries in NC.

"Now centered on Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, the Triad was home to one of North Carolina's earliest brewery operations in the Moravia community of Bethabara. Easy access by rail and then highways attracted national breweries, and starting in the 1960s, the region began producing beer for companies like Miller and Schlitz. The passage of the "Pop the Cap" legislation led to an explosion of craft beer and brewpubs, and in 2019, three of the top five producing craft breweries in North Carolina were anchored in the area. Local beer historians Richard Cox, David Gwynn and Erin Lawrimore narrate the history of the Triad brewing industry, from early Moravian communities to the operators of nineteenth-century saloons and from Big Beer factories to modern craft breweries." --

Now centered on Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, the Triad was home to one of North Carolina's earliest brewery operations in the Moravian community of Bethabara. Easy access by rail and then highways attracted national breweries, and starting in the 1960s, the region began producing beer for companies like Miller and Schlitz. The passage of the "Pop the Cap" legislation led to an explosion of craft beer and brewpubs, and in 2019, three of the top five producing craft breweries in North Carolina were anchored in the area. Local beer historians Richard Cox, David Gwynn and Erin Lawrimore narrate the history of the Triad brewing industry, from early Moravian communities to the operators of nineteenth-century saloons and from Big Beer factories to modern craft breweries.

Asheville, North Carolina has a long history with beer, one that is still easily seen in this city today, from moonshine to craft beers and breweries. Drinking local harks back to the founding of Asheville in 1798. Whether it be moonshine or craft beer, the culture of local hooch is deeply ingrained in the mountain dwellers of Western North Carolina. Both residents and visitors alike enjoy Asheville's wealth of breweries, brewpubs, beer festivals and dedicated retailers. That enthusiasm earned the city the coveted Beer City, USA title year after year and prompted West Coast beer giants Sierra Nevada, New Belgium and Oskar Blues to establish production facilities here. Beer writer and educator Anne Fitten Glenn recounts this intoxicating history, from the suds-soaked saloons of "Hell's Half Acre" to the region's explosion into a beer Mecca.

Over the past two hundred years, Western North Carolina has evolved from a mountainous frontier known for illicit moonshine production into a renowned destination for craft beer. Follow its story from the wild days of saloons and the first breweries of the 1870s through one of the longest Prohibitions in the nation. Eventually, a few bold entrepreneurs started the first modern breweries in Asheville, and formerly dry towns and counties throughout the region started to embrace the industry. The business of beer attracts jobs, tourists and dollars, as well as mixed emotions, legal conundrums and entrepreneurial challenges. Join award-winning beer writer Anne Fitten Glenn as she narrates the storied history of brewing in Western North Carolina.

-Explores the history and development of craft brewing in the USA. -Details the role of 14 of the best local, independent brewers from across the country. -Feature over 60 black and white photos. List of Featured Breweries Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria, Virginia https://www.portcitybrewing.com/ Werk Force Brewing Company in Plainfield, Illinois https://www.werkforcebrewing.com/ The Courtyard Brewery in New Orleans, Louisiana https://courtyardbrewery.square.site/ White Street Brewing Company in Wake Forest, North Carolina https://www.whitestreetbrewing.com/ La Cumbre Brewing Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico https://www.lacumbrebrewing.com/ Slow Pour Brewing Company in Lawrenceville, Georgia https://slowpourbrewing.com/ Revolution Brewing in Chicago, Illinois https://revbrew.com/ Ass Clown Brewing Company in Cornelius, North Carolina https://assclownbrewing.com/brewery/ Liquid Bread Brewing in Hays, Kansas https://www.lbbrewing.com/ Noble Beast Brewing Company in Cleveland, Ohio https://www.noblebeastbeer.com/ StillFire Brewing in Suwanee, Georgia https://stillrebrewing.com/ Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery in Nashville, Tennessee https://rockbottom.com/locations/nashville/ WeldWerks Brewery in Greely, Colorado https://weldwerksbrewing.com/ Bond Brothers Beer Company in Cary, North Carolina https://www.bondbrothersbeer.com/