Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery (Farmville, NC) and Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem, NC) brought home some shiny new medals to hang on the wall at the recent Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado.

Foothills won a Bronze for their Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout and Duck-Rabbit was skillful enough to capture a Bronze for their Barrel Aged Baltic Porter and the non aged variety placed first in the Baltic-Style Porter category.

Congratulations to these two fine breweries and congrats to all of the other awesome North Carolina breweries that put forth the effort to attend and enter the competition.

To see other winners of GABF awards, you can use this tool built by the Brewers Association.

And if you would like to see the chaos that is the Great American Beer Festival, they videotaped the whole thing from setup to breakdown and have it available for viewing in this 1 minute video.

First a new brewpub in Greensboro set to open this spring, and now….

From Triad Business Journal today…

“City planners have approved preliminary drawings for a brew pub in downtown W-S and the co-owners hope to have the brewery and restaurant open by late summer. Bob Hiller who owns Blue Ridge Brewing Company in Greenville, SC said he and other co-owners of what will be called 638 Brewing Co. have purchased property at 638 W. Fourth Street in Winston-Salem; They will hire about 50 employees. It will be a 10,000 square foot building. Owners hope to have at least six beers on tap, ranging from a lighter wheat blonde to brown ales and stouts…”