We are excited to announce that The Innovation Barn has been selected as the host venue of the 2024 Queen City Brewers Festival. The organization behind all of the programming at this combination of entrepreneurial businesses, zero-waste initiatives and one-of-a-kind event space, Envision Charlotte, will be QCBF's beneficiary. As always, Queen City Brewers Festival will be held in February on Super Bowl Saturday: 2.10.2024.

The Beers for Life "Super Brew" theme at QCBF will be returning in 2024. Each participating brewery will be asked to feature an eco-friendly brew at the festival - examples could include beers made with locally sourced ingredients, powered by solar energy or in partnership with Change Please, The Bulb or one of The Innovation Barn's other eco-friendly vendors - to raise awareness of Envision Charlotte initiatives.

These festival-exclusive beers will be especially identifiable by the Beers for Life tap handles made from plastic can carriers (also known as pak-techs) collected and processed at The Innovation Barn. After debuting at QCBF, breweries will release these beers in their taprooms across the Charlotte region.

Tickets to QCBF 2024 go on sale Wednesday, November 1st at 12:00 a.m.

In the meantime, visit the newly designed QCBF website to check out the latest details including brewery participants and more about Envision Charlotte https://qcbrewfest.com/

Join us as we celebrate two years of helping organizations in Charlotte while drinking some of the best beer the region has to offer.

From 1-5pm we will be helping the Richard Sheltra Memorial Foundation raise funds for equipment for volunteer firefighters, in honor of firefighter Richard Sheltra.

• 5 year anniversary Ego Death package up for grabs for anyone that makes a $5 donation

• limited release taps from Veil, Untitled Art and others, all of which $1 of each pour will be donated to the Richard Sheltra Foundation

• BYOB for a mini share going on, a $20 donation will get you a limited release CBC stainless steel pint

Looking for a chance to experience the best of Queen City Brewers Festival? Look no further! You're cordially invited to join us on Saturday, February 25th at 2pm for the QCBF Tap Takeover, where we'll be showcasing the People's Choice winner from the festival. We're thrilled to have special guest Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich joining us to announce the winner LIVE.

We'll be pouring the top beers from some of the festival's most beloved breweries, including Triple C, Petty Thieves, Suffolk Punch, Replay, Percent, & Hoptown. This will be a fantastic event, filled with incredible beer, great company, and plenty of good vibes. Don't miss out on this opportunity to taste the very best brews that Queen City Brewers Festival had to offer!

Tickets go on sale on 12/01/2022

https://queencitybrewersfestival.ticketspice.com/queen-city-brew-fest

CBC Paid Membership Share. Please reach out if interested in joining jeremy@charlottebeercollective.com

You don't have to be present to win, but if the first drawn raffle winner isn't present, we will do a split pot between the non-present winner and the first present number that we pull. If you'd like to bring a guest, it's $10 AND each guest must bring something to share and is not eligible for the raffle. A few other notes about the share:

• Members should bring 1-2 high end beers or purchase something from Kit's to share

• Keep pours small, 2-3 ounces, larger pours are fine if there is leftover after everyone has tasted the beer

• Here is a link to bottle share etiquette. We will have tasting glasses, dump buckets and water pitchers at each share

CBC Paid Membership Share. Please reach out if interested in joining jeremy@charlottebeercollective.com

You don't have to be present to win, but if the first drawn raffle winner isn't present, we will do a split pot between the non-present winner and the first present number that we pull. If you'd like to bring a guest, it's $10 AND each guest must bring something to share and is not eligible for the raffle. A few other notes about the share:

• Members should bring 1-2 high end beers or purchase something from Kit's to share

• Keep pours small, 2-3 ounces, larger pours are fine if there is leftover after everyone has tasted the beer

• Here is a link to bottle share etiquette. We will have tasting glasses, dump buckets and water pitchers at each share

CBC Paid Membership Share. Please reach out if interested in joining jeremy@charlottebeercollective.com

You don't have to be present to win, but if the first drawn raffle winner isn't present, we will do a split pot between the non-present winner and the first present number that we pull. If you'd like to bring a guest, it's $10 AND each guest must bring something to share and is not eligible for the raffle. A few other notes about the share:

• Members should bring 1-2 high end beers or purchase something from Kit's to share

• Keep pours small, 2-3 ounces, larger pours are fine if there is leftover after everyone has tasted the beer

• Here is a link to bottle share etiquette. We will have tasting glasses, dump buckets and water pitchers at each share

CBC Paid Membership Share. Please reach out if interested in joining jeremy@charlottebeercollective.com

You don't have to be present to win, but if the first drawn raffle winner isn't present, we will do a split pot between the non-present winner and the first present number that we pull. If you'd like to bring a guest, it's $10 AND each guest must bring something to share and is not eligible for the raffle. A few other notes about the share:

• Members should bring 1-2 high end beers or purchase something from Kit's to share

• Keep pours small, 2-3 ounces, larger pours are fine if there is leftover after everyone has tasted the beer

• Here is a link to bottle share etiquette. We will have tasting glasses, dump buckets and water pitchers at each share

AMRAP 4 AUTISM

Charlotte's favorite fitness charity event is back and with new workout options.

This year we get back to what made AMRAP such a unique and special event with our evening workout: UNDER THE LIGHTS!

Choose to participate in our signature partner workout, add a weight vest and get competitive in our last heat of the night, or try something new with a challenging power yoga heat!

We don't leave out our youth either, they can participate too with a special 16-minute workout designed for ages 3-12.

*NEW* We are excited to offer an autism adaptive heat this year that will be led by Autism Fitness.

QUICK LOOK AT AMRAP:

• Charity workout for any skill level
• 32-minute Partner Workout
• NEW! Autism Adaptive Heat
• Individual Youth Heat
• Partner Teen and Adult Heats
• Competitive Weight Vest Heat
• NEW! Power Yoga Heat
• Virtual Workout Option
• Ability to fundraise to amplify your impact and WIN prizes

Please plan to stick around all night to enjoy our vendor shopping area, kids' activities, food, music, and beer garden all while you watch your friends sweat it out for a great cause.

Earth Day Celebration w/

6-9PM-outdoors-Grateful Asheville Music Experience (G.A.M.E.)
9:30PM-indoors-Paper Crown Electric Band

One World Brewing Food Truck OPEN

This event is in partnership with Dogwood Alliance whose mission is to advance environmental justice & climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect southern forests and communities from industrial logging.
$1/pour of our Queen of the Forest IPA will be donated during the entire event. Board members will be present as speakers and provide action steps we can take to preserve the forests in which we live and love.

Charlotte Beer Collective will be there sampling some of Charlotte’s most eco-friendly beers out of their eco friendly Recyclorator. Stop by to hear how they're partnering with local nonprofits to do good things while they drink good beer.

We will also have a plant swap-bring starts or clippings of plants and swap them with each other. This is all by trade with no $/purchasing involved.

$10 cover for entire event

April is Autism Awareness Month! Come support Autism with us!

Friday is jam packed with awesome activities:
2pm: Lions Mane SouthEast IPA Release (proceeds benefit The Autism Strong Foundation)
5-6pm: Push-up Challenge (*see below for more information)
6-8pm: A Worthy Dog Food Truck
6-8pm: Rock Painting with @Alexroxinc
6-9pm: LLive Music with Chris Sheppard

Saturday:
12pm: Court Shoes Only Black IPA Release (Proceeds benefit ACEing Autism)
6-9pm: LLive Music with DT Duos

We have partnered with The Autism Strong Foundation to create a very special beer for them, Lions Mane Southeast IPA. This beer is best described as a low-bitterness West Coast IPA with more body, this is an easy drinking IPA brimming with notes of all things tropical; pineapple, lychee, mango, guava, and passionfruit. Malt additions of pilsner, carapils, blonde roast oats, and crystal malts provide ample body and a smooth mouthfeel. A massive Dry Hop dose of Vic Secret, Citra, and (new favorite) HBC 586 provides the intense aromatics. 1 in 54 people are diagnosed with Autism so it is no coincidence that we finished with 5.4%ABV! $1 from every pint sold in April will be donated to the Autism Strong Foundation.

How many push-ups can you do in one minute? The Charlotte Beer Collective is hosting a Push-up Challenge from 5-6pm Friday night. The male and female with the most push-ups will win a swag prize package!

Paint a rock for Autism! @alexroxinc will be here 6-8pm with all the supplies needed. Donations appreciated!

Details will be posted as they become available.

We will be pairing 12 of the most popular wing sauces from DD Peckers with different beers in our first Wing Bowl. We will have over 300 wings, for which people will vote on the three best sauce/beer pairings.

Huge thanks to D.D. Peckers, Scarlett Property Group and Sierra Nevada for helping us put this together!

Our festival will be held on 10/30/21 at our Barrel Arts location. And yes, costumes will be welcome!

This one celebrates the diversity of beer. For each attending brewery, we ask that they bring either two completely different styles of beer, or two completely different hues. Pastry stouts, heavily fruited sours, hazy stuff, crispy stuff, and everything in between!

For our comeback event, we invited a whole slew of people that joined us for the inaugural event in 2019...but we decided to go out in to the beer world and make some new friends to bring on the journey this year.

Here are the details we can share so far:

10/30/21

45+ breweries

VIP Entry at 12 PM

General entry at 1 PM

Pours go until 5 PM

Unlimited tastings (or until everyone runs out of beer)

VIP Ticket will include one hour early entry, a shirt, limited edition glassware, mixed 4-pack of cans, food token, and one hour early access to purchase guest cans and bottles. 100 will be available.

All tickets, VIP and general public, will go on sale in mid-August.

We hope you can join us for one of our favorite times of the year, and celebrate. Because we can't wait to party with you all!