Blind Squirrel Brewery

Blind Squirrel Brewery’s Plumtree location is a full service restaurant featuring twelve taps, a large 12-seat bar and a back room with a pool table. All brewed in the building next door.

Carolina Beer Temple (Matthews) (Closed)

A bar and bottle shop in one, this is a great place for those that are a fan of Belgian Ales. With 18 taps specializing in Belgian Ales and local brews, Carolina Beer Temple also features weekly tap takeovers on Thursdays.

Old Mecklenburg Brewery (Ballantyne)

This brewery features two sets of six and two sets of 12 taps and a menu of about a dozen unique beers and cocktails. Two levels inside and an enormous outdoor area featuring another 12-tap bar.

Hoptown Brewing

Hoptown Brewing offers a 20-tap system, an 8-seat bar, indoor and covered outdoor seating, and views of brewing operations. They provide beer flights, snacks, food trucks, merchandise, and canned beer, along with an active event calendar.

Frothy Beard (Charlotte) (Closed)

Frothy Beard, with 16 on-site brewed taps, offers a cozy six-seat bar, ample indoor and outdoor seating, fixed-price flights, and snacks, housed in a location with a history of breweries.

Lost Worlds

Lost Worlds Brewery, situated at the end of a Cornelius strip mall, features a large room and a secondary room with views of brewing operations. It offers 30 taps, including guest ciders, and provides a variety of seating options both indoors and outdoors. The venue is equipped with several TVs for sports and board games for entertainment. The brewery’s Berliner Weiss base is notable, allowing patrons to choose their own flavorings.

Frugal MacDoogal Beverage Warehouse

Warehouse style bottle shop featuring eighteen refrigerated shelves. A selection of singles but mostly 4, 6, 12 and up. Plenty of macro beers but a fine selection from local breweries as well as a modest import selection.

Petty Thieves Brewing

Petty Thieves Brewing boasts 20 on-site taps in a setting evocative of a London frat house, complete with leather furnishings, games, and a dog-friendly policy.

D9 Brewing (Uptown) (Closed)

Featuring nine taps, this small bar has just a couple of chairs at the bar but a good dozen small tables inside as well as three refrigerated shelves to go. Across the way, a second larger structure serves customers outside.

Replay Brewing

Replay Brewing, nestled in a modern shopping and dining district, boasts a unique retro game-themed atmosphere with a 10-seat bar, indoor and outdoor seating, and custom-designed tables featuring ’90s album covers and comics. The venue is equipped with pinball machines, old-school video game systems and televisions for sports.