AUGUST 19, 4:00 — 8:00 P.M.
Sample from over 100 craft beers from around the world at the Greensboro Coliseum Pavilion. Free parking with advance purchase.
Visit the Summertime brews website for more information and to order tickets!
Interested in having a craft beer appreciation class for your next event? It’s fun, educational, and a guaranteed way to get people to show up! It is, after all, beer.
Inquire via the Pop The Cap contact form. We’d love to hear from you!
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Know someone who loves North Carolina beer? Is it you? The new Pop The Cap “always fill up” shirt could be just the thing. Your purchase helps Pop The Cap continue to advocate for North Carolina and independent breweries! |
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We’ll use Flickr to post pictures here. Still figuring this out, but for now, here are some pictures of an Asheville event in 2004.
Check out the front and back in this sample picture.
$18 plus a couple of bucks for shipping. Please support PTC’s ongoing efforts to promote and advocate craft beer in North Carolina.
NOTE: we have a mix of t-shirt colors and sizes. If you select a size that we’re out of, we’ll contact you to find an alternative, or refund your money. Your best chance of finding a size and color you like is to order now, as these shirts are in limited supply.
Here’s a set of pictures from one of our best events — if not *the* best event, a summer 2004 gathering in Asheville. I’m still playing around with Flickr, so hopefully this will work.
If you have any pictures from PTC or North Carolina beer gatherings, send them our way! Send an email to sean (at) popthecap.org.
Hello! I’m having some problems getting the new July Pop The Cap newsletter out to our 1,500 or so subscribers. It’s now online, so if you know a thing or two about RSS feeds, you should be able to receive this notice (and future posts) about Pop The Cap and beer in North Carolina.
Personally, I use Mozilla Thunderbird to manage my RSS feeds, blog subscriptions and PTC email. You can also use Firefox’s Live Bookmarks feature to keep up-to-date with new blog posts and RSS feeds.
Microsoft Outlook does not currently enable RSS or Atom feeds, but third-party solutions for Outlook are out there.
Anyway, here’s the July newsletter. Let us know what you think of the new look!
Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem announces their first-ever cask ale: Hoppyum IPA!
The brewery plans to tap a firkin every Friday, so head out to the big W-S on the 28th and show your support for their inaugural cask. Trivia: a firkin is an old English unit of volume used for cask ales. Volume-wise, it’s in-between a hogshead and a butt. I said “butt!”
Ah, Flickr. I love you. But a simple task on your site turns into hours of browsing, much like my Aunt Flo on eBay after her afternoon Rob Roys.
Anyway, here are a few shots of the most excellent one-year celebration at Tyler’s in Carrboro. Many thanks to the event supporters, including Foothills, Highland, and French Broad breweries! And many thanks to Greg (the baker) Prospero for taking pictures of the toast!
We’re entering beer festival season, meaning that breweries (in particular) are really, really busy. It also means that there’s a lot of great beer-related events going on. SO…we at Pop The Cap going to support these events and plan our own functions in the more quiet months of the year. Look for 2007 membership information in the fall. In addition, we’ll be working on some publications and promotions to let people know all about the great breweries and beer businesses throughout the Old North State.
For now, many thanks to all of you who wrote letters, visited legislators and supported Pop The Cap. It’s been a great year.
Pop The Cap is very excited about this Saturday’s Raleigh Wide Open. In fact, we’ve sent out a press release to the local media announcing the fact that fourteen breweries and brewpubs — all from North Carolina — will be serving their beer at this event.
As far as we can tell, this represents the first time a beer festival has focused exclusively on North Carolina beer. It’s a good time to be a beer lover in the Old North State!
See you on the street!
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