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 our monthly beer event guides. • • • Beer Basics • Marion • February 2, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Learn how water, malt,
Download BEER NC to gain early access to our monthly beer event guides. • • • Beer Basics • Marion • February 2, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Learn how water, malt,
Love at first sip: Celebrate this sweet month with chocolate-and-beer pairings, cookies flights, and a multi-course valentine’s day dinner for two — plus a brew.
Learn how water, malt, hops, and yeast are blended to create your favorite brews. This hour-long class at Mica Town Brewing Company includes a flight of beer. Purchase tickets here.
Enjoy offerings from 40 Charlotte breweries and cideries along with snacks from select restaurants. Proceeds will benefit ACEing Autism-Charlotte, a nonprofit that serves more than a thousand autistic children each week. Purchase tickets here.
Dive into the history, style, brewing practices, and ingredients of Belgian beer at this event at Pilot Brewing Co. Classes are $8, include a flight, and start at 5:30, 6:30, and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available in person.
Pilot Brewing Co. • 1331-B Central Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28205
What could be better than a box of Thin Mints with your favorite pint? Join the parents of Girl Scout Troop 12901 while mixing and matching five types of Girl Scout cookies with four different beers. Proceeds will go toward the troop’s summer volunteer trip. Tickets are available in person.
Boondocks Brewing • 108 South Jefferson Avenue, West Jefferson, NC 28694
Last fall, seven beverage artisans participated in a walk across the Triangle to learn about native, edible plants. At Steel String Brewery, taste five beers and two ciders inspired by their walk, and eat an oyster from NCOyster365. Ten percent of the evening’s beer sales will be donated to the Triangle Land Conservancy.
Raleigh’s Videri Chocolate has teamed up with Flying Machine Brewing to pair four chocolate bonbons with four four-ounce beers. Taste combinations like chocolate ale with chocolate bouillon and cocoa nibs. Purchase tickets here.
Celebrate a day of love with someone special by sampling chocolate and craft beer at Craft Centric Taproom and Bottle Shop. Try a beer flight with an accompanying chocolate and complimentary champagne. Purchase tickets here.
Treat yourself to a four-course dinner including an appetizer, soup or salad, entrée, and dessert at Vecino Brewing Co. Tickets include two selections of wine or beer. Purchase tickets here.
Spoil yourself and a loved one with a six-course dinner from BottleDog and an accompanying beer from HopFly Brewing Co. Try lobster with Gruyère cheese and a Belgian saison, or beets with goat cheese and a pale ale. Purchase tickets here.
Brew Ha-Ha Tour• Charlotte • February 16, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Tour four Charlotte breweries on a deluxe motor coach, enjoy Brooklyn South Pizza, and win door prizes at this event. Participants will also receive free tickets for a future Brew Ha-Ha Tour. The tour starts at Eleven Lakes Brewing Company. Purchase tickets here.
Channel your inner Cookie Monster at this event, where you’ll enjoy four cookies with beer pairings at York Chester Brewing Company. Boxes of cookies can also be purchased to take home. Tickets are available in person.
Thirty breweries will enter a beer in this competition to raise money for North Carolina firefighters. Tickets include a tasting of all brews, a meal from Tobacco Road Brewing, and a souvenir glass. Proceeds will purchase cancer-fighting particulate hoods for fire stations across the state. Purchase tickets here.
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.
One of the last old-school fish houses in Onslow County stands sentry on the White Oak River. Clyde Phillips Seafood Market has served up seafood and stories since 1954 — an icon of the coast, persevering in pink.