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The past week has been filled with talk of Charlotte breweries and their expansion plans. OMB announced they will open their new brewery on July 19, NoDa announced they were looking for a new location, and Birdsong announced they would be moving right down the road.

But in addition to all this expansion talk comes wind of a new brewery entirely. After many months of searching, Mwatabu Terrell, a former emergency room doctor who lives in Tega Cay, SC, has found a home for Three Spirits Brewery and signed a lease at 5046 Old Pineville Rd. This location is about a mile south of The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery. Plans for the building include a patio outside and a taproom of about 2,500 square feet, with the brewery itself occupying around 9,100 square feet.

Terrell has also ordered a 10-barrel brewhouse and several fermenting tanks. He will be the brewery’s head brewer, having homebrewed since 1999 and studied at the Siebel Institute of Technology from 2005-2006. The brewery’s flagship will be an amber lager called Red Moon Rising. He will also brew an IPA called Hopper’s Delight, a golden ale brewed with apricot called Southern Bliss, a brown ale call Agate Have It, and a honey porter. There are also plans for a stout, a helles lager, a cream ale spiced with lavender and coriander, and a saison brewed with orange peel, lemon peel, cardamom and wintergreen. Kegs will be distributed around Charlotte, and Terrell hopes to can his beers in the future.

You can follow Three Spirits Brewery’s Facebook page for more information, and look for him to pour some of his beers (brewed on his pilot system) at this year’s Charlotte Oktoberfest.