Cheers Charlotte Radio | Craft Beer and Homebrew Podcast

We hit 200 episodes. Thanks to the support of the Charlotte craft beer community, we’ve been able to put together 200 great episodes. We’ve interviewed hundreds of homebrewers, pro-brewers, restaurant owners, CEO’s, authors, musicians, and much more. We’re live from Heist Brewing with our 200th episode and celebration bottle share. Will you be at our 400th party?

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Larry Suggs and Amanda Britton – The popular bartending couple joins us to talk about the craft cocktail scene in Charlotte.  We also get into their consulting business, education classes and the Charlotte chapter of the Bartenders Guild they helped found. Check them out at CrownTown Collective. In The News 2018 Capture The Crown Homebrew […]

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It was a beautiful day in Salisbury last Saturday. We were lucky enough to make it to the NC Homebrew Invitational where some of North and South Carolina homebrewers got together to share awesome home brews. This week’s episode includes interviews with Deb Griffith founder of Pink Mugs Society a woman only Homebrew club in […]

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We are on location from Resident Culture Brewing in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood of Charlotte, NC. We sat down with head brewer, Chris “Tropes” Tropeano, to talk about this exciting new brewery. If you haven’t visited this gem, be sure you stop by as soon as possible.  

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Catawba Brewing partnered with Dunkin Donuts to create a special beer that proceeds will benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank.  We get into the specifics of the beer, the history of Catawba Brewing, and how Second Harvest contributes to the Charlotte community.

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Scotch, Scotch, Scotch at Dot. Dot. Dot!  On this episode we go deep on a proper scotch education courtesy of Jeff Fissel, Director of Rural Hill and the North Carolina Brewers and Music Festival and Stefan Huebner, owner and cocktail sensei of Dot Dot Dot, Charlotte's newest culinary driven speakeasy.  Both of these gentlemen are Cheers Charlotte repeat offenders and they generously surrendered a number a choice bottles of scotch to help educate us and our listeners on what to look for, how to properly taste and what the various regions offer.  Jeff is a well traveled and self taught scotch drinker who hosts Scotch dinners out at Rural Hill throughout the year, and Stefan, a seasoned bartender and entrepreneur slings drabs of high quality scotch nightly, including scotch cocktails and the occasional and much appreciated pony beer to cleanse the pallet.  If you are a scotch fan or curious about what it may be get involved then enjoy our latest episode!    

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We’re live from the 2017 Charlotte Oktoberfest. The weather was perfect, we got to reconnect with old friends and we made new ones. Head brewer and owner from Wise Man Brewing, Sam Victory stopped by to tell us about the beer coming out of his Winston Salem brewery. We got an update from TJ Creighton, owner and brewer from High Branch Brewing. Sales guru, Cam Heiliger from Oskar Blues/Cigar City drops by to share fresh news from Brevard. And the day would not be complete with a visit from Jordan Boines from Newgrass Brewing and Carol Wagner from Bold Missy Brewing. A special #CheersWorthy thanks to all the listeners who stopped by for a high five.

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Jen Blair and Bethany Burr join us to talk about what is new this year for Oktoberfest.  We discuss the new location, the best places to park for the festival, and what new breweries you might see this year.  

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We got to hang out with Jason Busick,  Loran Sekely, Nathan Leggett and Hashim Daniels from Charlotte’s Fantasy Beer League. These guys take craft beer seriously and it shows when you read the rulebook for this league. Similar to a sports fantasy draft, these guys take turns picking out breweries they want to compete against each other in beer style competitions. They meet several times a year where each member gets to bring a beer from their roster. The beers are then blind tasted and assigned points in taste. The winner is crowned each match with the grand champion being declared at the end of season

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The one and only Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewery,  joins the Cheers Crew at Uptown Charlotte's Flight Beer Garden & Music Hall during a whirlwind publicity tour.  Being the classy hosts that we are, ourselves and our traveling P1's broke out vintage Dogfish Head bottles to share with Sam as we kicked back and discussed what's been going on with his brand and today's craft beer environment.  Sam gives us his views on the Brewer's Association Independent Craft seal of approval, shares some insight into what new and upcoming breweries should pay attention to in order to compete, comments on the Wicked Weed sell out, talks about his truck and and tells us why, contractually, Dogfish Head beats Russian River every time!  It's a great interview with one of the leaders of the craft beer industry and we are humbled that he gave us the time so we can share it with you!  Cheers!

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