May 2013

Second Annual Asheville Beer Week May 25 2013
The Second Annual Asheville Beer Week is scheduled for May 25 through June 1, 2013, culminating with the Beer City Festival on Saturday, June 1 in downtown Asheville, NC. Organized by a beer-loving committee of regional beer industry people, Asheville Beer Week will offer a variety of events in and around the Asheville and Western North Carolina area. This year’s eight-day celebration will include keynote speakers, education, tastings, dinners, and other beer-centric events. More than 40 breweries are slated to appear at Beer City Festival, with many other national brands at events throughout the week. We are now seeking corporate sponsors, wholesaler participants, community partners, and event hosts. If you would like to participate, please send a media kit request to julie@ashevillebeerweek.com. Look for a brand new website, more interactive features, and a growing schedule of events in March.
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NC Hops and Roots Festival May 25 2013
A family friendly festival celebrating our local craft breweries, vineyards, food, farms, and music!!! Proceeds from the festival benefit NC Blues in the School. Where: Shakori Hills, 1439 Henderson Tanyard Rd. Pittsboro, NC 27312 When: Saturday, May 25th - Gates open at Noon
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Weaver Street Market Co-op Celebrating 25th Anniversary with Local Breweries for a Limited Bottle Release - Hillsborough May 25 2013
Weaver Street Market Co-op is celebrating its 25th Anniversary by 'cooperating' with local breweries Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, Aviator Brewing Company, and Lonerider Brewing Company. In honor of the Co-op’s big year, these breweries are cookin’ up three limited edition beers. Aviator has created an Amber Ale infused with smoked jalapeno peppers. Natty Greene’s has brewed a Farmhouse Saison and Lonerider has made a Smoked Dry Irish Stout.

Saturday, May 25th, 4 – 6 pm, Weaver Street Market Hillsborough Beer Available: “Weaver Trail” Lonerider Smoked Dry Irish Stout (limited release 22 oz. bottles) Music: Justin Johnson
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Asheville Rare & Wild Beer Tasting May 31 2013
All About Beer Magazine and the Thirsty Monk Pub will present the inaugural Asheville Rare & Wild Beer Tasting on May 31 from 6-9 p.m. to benefit Pints for Prostates, a nationwide campaign designed to raise awareness about the importance of early detection in fighting prostate cancer. TheAsheville Rare & Wild Beer Tasting is expected to feature hard to find beers from 24 leading craft breweries. The event will be held at 66 Asheland Ave. in Asheville during Asheville Beer Week. Tickets for the Asheville Rare & Wild Beer Tasting will go on sale now. Only 250 tickets will be sold for the event and available online HERE Tickets are $75 and include admission to the event, beer sampling, commemorative tasting glass, program and heavy hors d'oeuvres.
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June 2013

2nd Anna's Loft/The Beer Dispensary Downtown Apex Homebrew Competition June 01 2013
Homebrewers (or the excuse to start) put this date on your Calendar: June 1. It will be the deadline to enter your beer artistry for the 2nd Anna's Loft/The Beer Dispensary Downtown Apex Homebrew Competition! You can pick up forms and get more details at the shop or Anna's. There is a limit of 50 entries and each brewer can enter up to two brews. Entry fee for each entry is $10 cash. Be sure to tell your homebrewing friends to fire up their kettles! This is a Best in Show competition, so the beer is not judged by style...anything goes!
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Beer City Festival - Asheville June 01 2013
Beer City Festival is the brewers’ beer festival! The 4th Annual BCF will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2013 from 01:00-6:00 p.m. It’s the perfect way to wrap-up ABW 2013 with a big community party. Every year, the Asheville Brewers Alliance teams up with the good people behind September’s popular Brewgrass Festival. This outdoor beer fest is held in Downtown Asheville on Roger McGuire Green with dozens of breweries and plenty of live music. Partial proceeds from the festival go to local charities. http://beercityfestival.com/
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Charlotte Brewers Festival June 01 2013

A festival for the breweries by the breweries. June 1, 2013 1-8pm 215 Southside Drive, Charlotte, NC 28217

Join your 8 local breweries for a festival celebrating our great Charlotte craft beer community.

Birdsong Brewing Company
Four Friends Brewing
Heist Brewery
Hops Grill & Brewery
NoDa Brewing Company
The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery
Rock Bottom Brewery
Triple C Brewing Co.

The festival will take place on June 1, 2013 from 1-8pm at 215 Southside Drive (home of OMB). Each brewery will have 3 beers a piece on tap for beer lovers to try.

Tickets can be purchased at www.charlottebrewersfestival.com
$15 in advance
$25 at the door
Price includes cover, (1) 12oz beer and (6) 3oz samples
Food from some of the local breweries and food trucks sold separately.

Live Music:
1:30pm Pocket Full of Strange
5:00pm Josh Daniel & Friends and Ancient Cities of The New Familiars

The 10th Annual Blues 'n Brews Festival - Fayetteville June 01 2013
For VIPs the event gets started at 4:00 with a picnic, a private early pour, a chat with the brewers, premiere parking and more. Featuring over 15 of the finest Breweries in the southeast, as well as lots of down home blues music, this event promises to be fun for the entire family. Bring your lawn chairs or a blanket and spend the afternoon and evening relaxing in the Festival Park. Downtown Fayetteville's Festival Park
Saturday, June 1, 2013
5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m
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Paradoxos June 06 2013
Paradoxos, a two day festival in Durham June 6 & 7, will celebrate the entrepreneurism and creativity of Durham and the Triangle. Featuring tech start-ups and tech leaders, great beer, food trucks, music, and talks on a variety of topics given by area thought leaders.

The event kicks off with Triangle Startup Factory's Pitch Day. Triangle Startup Factory is the Southeast's premier tech accelerator, providing startups with hands-on mentorship and up to $200,000 in seed capital. On June 6th five teams will present their ideas at the Carolina Theater with the hope that they will receive angel & VC funding for their big idea. That evening Paradoxos will host a party that is open to the public in the CCB plaza with local companies and breweries, and of course live music. The bands include The Beast and Pinkerton Raid, beers will be for sale from Lonerider, Raleigh Brewing Co, Mystery Brewing, Bull City Burger and Brewery, Fullsteam, Triangle Brewing Co, Carolina Brewery and New Belgium. Food trucks will also join the party.

On Friday, June 7th The Durham Chamber of Commerce will host The Next at the Carolina Theater.The Next is modeled after TED and will feature speakers giving 5 and 18 minute talks. Following The Next a number of companies will host block parties throughout downtown Durham.
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NC Fresh Catch June 08 2013
The Hills To Holy Water Music Arts Tour is bringing local NC flavor and entertainment to downtown Raleigh. Join us for an afternoon in the park to support NC Catch fisheries, local farms and breweries and help raise money for Nourish International and the NC Coastal Federation. Menu items include a good 'ol fashioned fish fry, steamed clams, an assortment of delectable seafood plates and cold craft beer. So bring a blanket and a chair and big appetites for NC Fresh Catch: Fresh Seafood, Fresh Music, Fresh Beer, Fresh Art. This is an all ages, kid friendly show.

Saturday June 8th 1-7pm
Moore Square Raleigh, NC
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Monthly Beer Education and Sensory Training Classes - Sensory Training 2 June 09 2013
Sensory Training 2 (DMS, Acetic, Ethyl acetate, Ethyl hexanoate, Earthy, Vanilla) Sensory Training Classes - Includes six different flavors each time.
-Taste the flavors and discuss how to describe them and what can cause them. And for the homebrewers, we will discuss how these flavors can be prevented (or enhanced).
-Each class will be 6 new flavors, there will be no repeats.
-The registration fee will cover a control sample plus 6 other samples, as well as notes to take home.
-The Beer Study will also be including a 1/2 pint of one of their draft beers so you don’t have to only drink beer with off-flavors.
-Limited to 15 people per class.
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Peabody's Annual Cellar Sale Extravaganza June 22 2013
The Annual Cellar Sale is upon us! This years Event Promises to be BIGGER AND BETTER than ever before! Saturday June 22nd 2013 Noon to 5pm Peabody's Wine and Beer Merchants 1104 Hwy 105 Boone, NC 28607 At this years event we will be releasing 3000+ bottles of brews that have been slumbering patiently in our light, temperature, and humidity controlled cellars! These brews are all "rare" to "super rare" and guaranteed to have been gone for a while! There will be vertical collections, and lots of beers that barely saw the light of day before they were "snatched up" throughout the state! This year's event will mark the first release of Peabody's "Blendiculous Series" entitled Lock, Stock, and Bourbon Barrels, with tastes of the brew and a limited number of bottles for sale! This was a collaboration with Olde Hickory Brewery and will be a blended Barleywine, aged in multiple Bourbon Barrels!

4th Annual Brew Bern Beer Fest June 29 2013
New Bern will be hosting their fourth annual beer festival at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center this summer on June 29, 2013. This 45,000 square foot venue is located in the city's historic district on the Trent River waterfront at 203 South Front Street, New Bern, NC . The festival will focus on 50+ American craft and regional micro breweries with over 150 beers being offered. There will be one tasting session with three tickets options. The VIP ticket is $40 if purchased before 15 Jun, $50 after that date/day of the event and will give you admission from 1 - 6 PM. The General Admission ticket is $25 if purchased before 15 Jun, $35 after that date/day of the event and will give you admission from 2:30 - 6 PM. The VIP and GA ticket includes tasting glass, festival program, pen and unlimited sampling of all beers offered.  There will only be 500 VIP and 3000 total tickets sold. Ticket sales will start at 8 AM on Saturday, 4 May 2013.
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July 2013

Summertime Brews Fest July 13 2013
9th Annual Summertime Brews Festival at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. The Summertime Brews Festival will be Saturday, July 13, 2013 from 2:30pm – 8pm. Enjoy hundreds of craft beers from around the world. VIP tasting will be from 2:30pm-4pm. General Admission will begin at 4pm and conclude at 8pm.
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Monthly Beer Education and Sensory Training Classes - German/Czech Beer Styles July 14 2013
German/Czech Beer Styles Geographic Style History Classes -Includes a presentation on the history and unique qualities of beer from a specific region of the world.
-Each of these classes will focus on a different region.
-Sample and discuss several beers that represent the region and talk about what we taste.
-You will be provided with notes to take home.
-Beer Study will provide a 1/2 pint of a draft beer for you to enjoy as well.
-Limited to 20 people per class
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August 2013

Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival - Cary August 02 2013
Join us at the festival for a great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'. Your admission buys you a sampling glass so you can enjoy an ALL-YOU-CARE –TO-TASTE sampling of beer and bourbon. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and LIVE music all day. Town of Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre 60 beers, 40 bourbons and lots of BBQ!! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
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Monthly Beer Education and Sensory Training Classes - Sensory Training 3 August 11 2013
Sensory Training 3 (Diacetyl, Lactic, Indole, Caprylic, Grainy, Almond) Sensory Training Classes - Includes six different flavors each time.
-Taste the flavors and discuss how to describe them and what can cause them. And for the homebrewers, we will discuss how these flavors can be prevented (or enhanced).
-Each class will be 6 new flavors, there will be no repeats.
-The registration fee will cover a control sample plus 6 other samples, as well as notes to take home.
-The Beer Study will also be including a 1/2 pint of one of their draft beers so you don’t have to only drink beer with off-flavors.
-Limited to 15 people per class.
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September 2013

Monthly Beer Education and Sensory Training Classes - Belgian/French Beer Styles September 08 2013
Belgian/French Beer Styles Geographic Style History Classes -Includes a presentation on the history and unique qualities of beer from a specific region of the world.
-Each of these classes will focus on a different region.
-Sample and discuss several beers that represent the region and talk about what we taste.
-You will be provided with notes to take home.
-Beer Study will provide a 1/2 pint of a draft beer for you to enjoy as well.
-Limited to 20 people per class
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Durham World Beer Festival September 21 2013
The World Beer Festival – Durham is a little earlier this year, on September 21st, 2013! After last year’s layout changes and addition of the large NC Breweries tent, expect even more layout changes for this year (something dramatic, if we do say so ourselves)! We hope to see you there. All About Beer Magazine Print Subscriber Pre-Sale: Thursday, May 2nd General Public Tickets On Sale: Thursday, May 9th

15th Annual Charlotte Oktoberfest Beer Festival September 28 2013
NC Music Factory Charlotte, NC General and Premium ticket holders will receive: - A Collectible 5-oz. Charlotte Oktoberfest Tasting Glass. - Your selection of samples from over 350 of the finest craft brewed beers in the Southeast and from around the world. - Souvenir event guide with an improved map to help you navigate to your next selection. Designated Driver ticket holders will receive: Free food/snacks and non-alcoholic beverages at the Designated Driver tent. All ticket holders will enjoy: - Live entertainment on the big stage. - The chance to put your skills to the test on games like table tennis, foosball, corn hole and many others in the Creative Loafing Beerlympic Village. - Food vendors serving some of the tastiest brats, hot dogs, pretzels, and more. About Festival Proceeds - The Carolina BrewMasters have always been dedicated to helping our local community. The Charlotte Oktoberfest provides a great opportunity to make an impact. - During the 12 years of hosting our festival, the Carolina BrewMasters have donated over $280,000 to local charities.
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