A work in progress timeline of beer and brewing history in North Carolina.
Year -- History
1774 -- Single Brother's Brewery and Distillery opens on Old Shallowford Road in Salem.
1920 -- January: Prohibition begins when the 18th Amendment goes into effect on January 16th.
1933 -- North Carolina votes against the ratification of the 21st Amendment.
1933 -- December: 21st Amendment repeals the 18th, ending prohibition.
1935 -- It is two years after the federal repeal before North Carolina repeals prohibition.
1936 -- North Carolina Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association is established.
1937 -- State ABC Commission was formed by the NC State Government.
1970 -- Stroh Brewing Company opens a brewery in Winston-Salem.
1978 -- Miller Brewing opens a brewery in Eden.
1983 -- Legal drinking age in NC raised from 18 to 21 years of age.
1985 -- An amendment to NC's lawbooks, spearheaded by Uli Bennewitz, makes Brewpubs legal in North Carolina.
1986 -- Uli Bennewitz's Weeping Radish becomes North Carolina's first brewpub. Location: Manteo.
1988 -- Weeping Radish opens second brewpub in Durham.
1988 -- Dilworth Brewery opens brewery and restaurant in Charlotte.
1989 -- Summer: Greenshields Brewing Co. brews first batch in Raleigh.
1991 -- Red Oak Brew Pub opens in Greensboro.
1992 -- Cottonwood Brewery opens in Boone.
1994 -- Wilmington Brewery opens in Wilmington.
1994 -- November: Olde Hickory Brewery opens brewpub in Hickory.
1994 -- December: Highland Brewing brews first batch in Asheville.
1995 -- Old Raleigh Brewing opens in Raleigh.
1995 -- Johnson Beer Company opens in Charlotte.
1995 -- Southend Brewery and Smokehouse opens in Charlotte.
1995 -- February: Carolina Brewery opens its doors in Chapel Hill.
1995 -- June: Front Street Brewing brews first batch in Wilmington.
1996 -- Huske Hardware House begins brewing in Fayetteville.
1996 -- Pinehurst Village Brewery brews its first batch in Aberdeen.
1996 -- Steve & Clark's Brewpub opens its doors in downtown Durham. At the old Weeping Radish site.
1996 -- Tomcat Brewing opens in Raleigh.
1996 -- Top of the Hill begins brewing in Chapel Hill.
1997 -- Old Raleigh Brewing closes its doors in Raleigh.
1997 -- Pale Ale Brewery begins brewing where Tomcat Brewing ended in Raleigh.
1997 -- Cottonwood Brewery wins bronze at the GABF for Low Down Brown.
1997 -- November: Carolina Beer & Beverage opens in Mooresville.
1998 -- Cross Creek Brewing opens in Fayetteville.
1998 -- Dilworth Brewery closes its doors in Charlotte.
1998 -- November: Southend Brewery and Smokehouse opens in Raleigh.
1999 -- Rock Creek Brewing moves to NC from VA. They take over the Pale Ale Brewery in Raleigh.
1999 -- Stroh Brewing Company closes their Winston-Salem brewery
1999 -- July: Catawba Valley Brewing opens in Glen Alpine.
1999 -- December: Lake Norman Brewing Company opens in Cornelius.
2000 -- Johnson Beer Company closes its doors in Charlotte.
2000 -- Williamsville Brewery takes over Wilmington Brewery in Farmville.
2000 -- February: Olde Hickory Brewery opens a second micro-brewery in Hickory.
2000 -- June: Lake Norman Brewing Company closes its Cornelius brewery.
2000 -- November: Carolina Beer & Beverage takes over the Cottonwood line of beers.
2000 -- December: French Broad River Brewery opens in Asheville.
2001 -- Chesapeake Bay Brewing Co. buys the Rock Creek Brewing name and starts making beer in the same location in Raleigh.
2001 -- Tobacco Roadhouse begins brewing where Steve & Clark's Brewpub left off, Durham.
2001 -- Mash House Restaurant & Brewery wins Gold at the GABF for their Hoppy Hour IPA.
2002 -- Olde Hickory Brewery renames their original brewpub Amos Howard's Restaurant & Brew Works. The micro-brewery they opened in 2000 retains the Olde Hickory name.
2002 -- January: Liberty Steakhouse brews first batch in High Point.
2003 -- January: Pop The Cap holds its first official meeting.
2003 -- April: Chesapeake Bay Brewing Co. closes its doors in Raleigh.
2003 -- July: beerinator.com begins in earnest.
2003 -- November: Edenton Brewing Company opens on the old Chesapeake Bay site in Raleigh.
2004 -- March: Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery opens in Farmville on the site of the now closed Williamsville Brewery.
2004 -- Summer: Natty Greene's Pub & Brewing Co. opens in Greensboro.
2004 -- August: A fire at the brewpub forces Greenshield's Brewing to close their doors.
2004 -- Ham's Restaurant & Brewhouse wins Bronze at the GABF for their Charlie's Barley Amber Ale.
2005 -- February 24th: House Bill 392 the "Pop The Cap" bill is introduced to the State House of Representatives.
2005 -- March: Foothills Brewery opens in Winston-Salem.
2005 -- June: Pisgah Brewing starts brewing in Black Mountain.
2005 -- August 13th: North Carolina's new 15% Cap is born! All thanks to Pop The Cap!
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