Ollie Mulligan, this week from an airport somewhere in the Northeast, talked about his upcoming flight home, about returning to his native Ireland, to County Kildare. He thought aloud about the bright, rolling green fields. Of horses, and of Guinness. Mulligan, turning the conversation, started talking about his businesses in his other home, of Great...
A bill N.C. craft distillers see as a game-changer regarding how they do business and how they can grow their businesses is headed to the governor. The N.C. Senate, which had already approved Senate Bill 290, concurred with House changes in a 31-10 vote Tuesday, July 16. The N.C. House on July 11, after years...
A bill that would ease restrictive regulations on N.C. craft distillers is closer to becoming law. The N.C. Senate on Tuesday, June 25, passed Senate Bill 290, Distiller Regulatory Reform Bill, 39-4. It was sent by special message to the House. An amendment to the bill clarified some of the language in the bill and...
A bill that would align laws for North Carolina craft distilleries more closely with rules governing wine and craft beer easily cleared the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, June 18. It now heads to Senate Rules. Senate Bill 290, Distiller Regulatory Reform Bill, would allow N.C. distilleries to sell malt beverages and unfortified and fortified...
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2. A bill filed Tuesday, April 2, in the N.C. House would dramatically revamp how the state governs liquor sales and distribution, including a provision allowing for Sunday sales. Distillers, brewers, and consumers would be among the beneficiaries of the expansive measure, modernizing...
Head distiller Chris Jude steps through a door at the High Wire Distilling Co. in Charleston, South Carolina. Jude, who’s from Boone, enters the tasting room and bar, making the short trip from the place spirits are made to the place spirits are served. Customers sitting at the long bar can distract themselves by peering...
Senate Bill 155 is in the hands of lawmakers in the N.C. House. The bill, omnibus legislation loosening rules on North Carolina distillers and brewers, on Monday afternoon cleared the House Finance Committee. The committee addressed two fees in the bill, gave the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission 120 days rather than 60 to write...
Distillers in North Carolina aren’t quite ready to extend their arms in a celebratory toast, but they’ve certainly opened the bottle and dropped some ice in the glass. Senate Bill 155, omnibus legislation loosening rules on North Carolina distillers and brewers, is headed to the House Finance Committee. The House Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee on...
Rep. John Bradford began discussion of House Bill 460 on Tuesday by saying the measure was probably long overdue. It’s a move that’s been delayed, by some accounts, for as many as 80 years. Bradford, a Mecklenburg County Republican and deputy majority whip, outlined the bill during a meeting of the Alcoholic Beverage Control standing...
RALEIGH — He never served as president, governor, or U.S. senator, but Josephus Daniels was one of the most important and powerful figures in 20th-century North Carolina political history. Dr. Lee Craig, head of the Department of Economics and distinguished undergraduate professor at N.C. State University, tells Daniels’ story in the book Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times. Craig discussed his work with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
WHITSETT — Sierra Nevada and New Belgium breweries are interested in creating hubs on the east coast. But neither will come to North Carolina unless the state allows them to sample and sell their beer at the brewery sites.
