Kinston natives Stephen Hill and his son-in-law Trent Mooring founded Mother Earth Brewing in 2008 in the old Pully’s Barbecue building on Herritage Street. Local artist Dinah Sharpe Sylivant designed each label of the brewery’s year-round beers to reflect the eastern region. The Dark Cloud label (pictured above) depicts a storm cloud rolling up over an eastern North Carolina tobacco farm. The tap room at Mother Earth offers tastes of the beer brewed in the adjoining room. Sampling a beer at the sleek bar, surrounded by brick, wood, and metal repurposed from the building’s previous lives, it feels like you’re leaving your mark on the old structure, too.
Mother Earth Brewing
311 North Herritage Street
Kinston, NC 28501
(252) 208-2437
motherearthbrewing.com
Read about the building’s past as Pully’s Barbecue.
In North Carolina, spring brings the scent of fresh-cut grass and memories of helping Dad mow the lawn.
Nostalgic burger joints are like time machines, delivering something extra special that keeps us coming back.
This tiny city block in downtown Greensboro once had a gigantic reputation. Not so much for its charbroiled beef patties — though they, too, were plentiful — but for its colorful characters and their wild shenanigans.
In the 1950s, as Americans hit freshly paved roads in shiny new cars during the postwar boom, a new kind of restaurant took shape: the drive-in. From those first thin patties to the elaborate gourmet hamburgers of today, North Carolina has spent the past 80 years making burger history.
