Put ramekins on a baking sheet. Bake for 25-35 minutes, until puffed and golden. Remove from oven, and let stand for 5 minutes. With a flexible spatula, remove strata to
Download BEER NC to gain early access to monthly beer event guides. • • • Whistle Hop Brewing's First Anniversary Party • Fairview • December 9, 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Whistle
Download BEER NC to gain early access to monthly beer event guides. • • • Whistle Hop Brewing's First Anniversary Party • Fairview • December 9, 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Whistle
DownloadBEER NC to gain early access to monthly beer event guides.
• • •
Whistle Hop Brewing’s First Anniversary Party • Fairview • December 9, 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Whistle Hop is celebrating their first anniversary with a party featuring music from Pretty Little Goat, raffle prizes, and hand-crafted beer.
Tour De Toys • Wilmington • December 9, 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Join Waterman’s Brewing Company for a bike ride and toy drive! Decorate your bike and bring an unwrapped toy valued at $15 or more.
Brew Wars: The Thirst Awakens • Gastonia • December 9, 12 p.m.-11 p.m. Cavendish Brewing Company is throwing a Star Wars-themed party in celebration of The Last Jedi. Activities include an intergalactic vendor market, costume contest, and light saber craft session.
Birdsong Brewing Company’s Anniversary Party • Charlotte • December 9, 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Birdsong is celebrating its sixth anniversary with live music, food trucks, a special release IPA, and a commemorative glass for the first 100 customers!
Brew Festivus • Wilmington • December 9, 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Come to Capt’n Bills Backyard Grill for a beer festival with 19 breweries — including every Wilmington brewery — and an oyster roast and pig picking. Tickets can be purchased here.
Plow To Pint Brew Off • Asheville • December 10, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Fourteen local breweries will compete in the Plow to Pint Brew Off to see who can make the best beer. All beers must include one special ingredient from Rayburn Farm — this year, it’s pineapple sage.
Other Half + Burial Beer Co. Christmas Party • Asheville • December 16, 5 p.m.-11 p.m.
Burial is throwing their second annual Christmas party with Brooklyn’s Other Half Brewing Company. The festivities will include collaboration releases, snow machines, and a costume competition.
To commemorate our 90th anniversary, we’ve compiled a time line that highlights the stories, contributors, and themes that have shaped this magazine — and your view of the Old North State — using nine decades of our own words.
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
Us? An icon? Well, after 90 years and more than 2,000 issues celebrating North Carolina from mountains to coast, we hope you’ll agree that we’ve earned the title.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.