Joe McGrath
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In OBX this week. Need suggestions for local beers that are exclusive to NC. There is a craft beer specialty store not far so i might be able to get some more obscure stuff as well.
In OBX this week. Need suggestions for local beers that are exclusive to NC. There is a craft beer specialty store not far so i might be able to get some more obscure stuff as well.
Go up to Weeping Radish. They also have their beers at some of the brew-throughs out there. Outer Banks Brewing Station's also decent, but I don't think they bottle whereas Weeping Radish does.
In OBX this week. Need suggestions for local beers that are exclusive to NC. There is a craft beer specialty store not far so i might be able to get some more obscure stuff as well.
What part of the OBX?
4 x 4 beach up north.
I found an IPA from the US called Snake Dog in my local supermarket. Got two for tonights draft, along with some Punk IPA, Brooklyn Lager, and Stone IPA.
I've kept an eye out for NC beer over here, but not found any other than Sierra Nevada (like it, brewed in NC yeah?). To be honest, I am not sure what the well-known brands are.
Offhand, I'd guess Highland Brewing, Foothills, Red Oak, Natty Greene's, Wicked Weed, Old Mecklenburg, and NoDa are the biggest breweries based here (in no particular order). Dave can probably tell you more accurately off the top of his head. Several, like Sierra Nevada, are based in the west and have set up shop around Asheville to bulk up their distribution in the eastern part of the country, but they don't really count as NC breweries.
I'd be surprised if any of ours have made it across the pond. I'd speculate that Wicked Weed is the most likely to get there now that they've been bought by AB InBev, but it probably won't be what it was prior to the acquisition.
I know what I wasn't drinking this weekend at Beericana... Gizmo.
I'm not drinking anything at the moment because it's ****ing 11AM and I'm at work (at the office, not at the brewery) but I homebrewed a Yellow Gatorade clone with absolutely no guidelines other than the ingredients list, and it could probably litterally pass off as Gatorade if there was no bitterness whatsoever attached to it.
Gatoraide isn't that complicated- sugar, citric acid (you can just use lemon juice), and a couple different types of salt. And some variety of flavor. It originated as a homebrew thing made by some athletic trainers, remember.