Jay Goodwin of The Rare Barrel and host of The Brewing Network’s Sour Hour is online with us answering some questions from the gang at Milk the Funk. Learn how he got started, what he has been doing, and what is on the horizon.

In the house is Rick Benfield, Bethany Burr, Mathew Taylor, and Jeff Mason of the Charlotte Oktoberfest Planning Committee, giving us the 411 on the largest Beer-festival in the South East. This year’s local charities benefiting are: Ada Jenkins Center, Beds For Kids, Greater Charlotte SPCA, Operation Homefront-Carolinas. How did it get started? What do we have to look forward to this year? Tickets go on sale Friday, August 07, 2015 here: http://charlotteoktoberfest.com/Tickets

Sponsors:

House of Brews: – August Specials: Code: “August1” $5 off $50 Code: “August2” $15 off $100

17th Annual Charlotte Oktoberfest on October 3rd. (Biggest beer fest in SouthEast) Sponsored by Lagunitas We will be giving away 2 pairs of tickets Charlotteoktoberfest.com Premium & General Admission Tickets Ferm Nation booth selling craft beer bottle candles for charity.

Salud Beer Shop: – 3306 N. Davidson end of Noda before the railroad tracks. Release the Funk 3 – Funkonia – Nov 21, 2015 – Neighborhood Theatre – Noda



What has everyone been up to:

Joe –

Brewed a best bitter and American pale ale.

Belgian Quad brew session at HoB for Alap’s going away.

7th annual out of season Barleywine and Bad decision fest at Charles Willett’s house

Daan –

Brewed a Lemon Grass White IPA with Magnum and Citra Hops. Added a touch of coriander for the Noda AIGA competition.

Beer Bloggers Conference, Lost my keys, Sierra Nevada was simply epic! personal tours from Ken and Brian Grossman.

Asheville Funk, great time, only thing I would change is the DJ playing house/trance music.

Brewing a collaboration with Cheers Charlotte this weekend for CLT Oktoberfest.

Michael –

Brewed a Lemongrass Ginger Saison for the NODA AIGA Competition.

Sales of Spyglass Tours #Oktoberfest Early Bird Discounts for 2016 start August 01, 2015.

Dates for the Salud Belgian Beer Tour April 14 – 21, 2016 with the option to add on the 500th Anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot in Munich.

Spent a long weekend on the Virginia portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Visited 20 breweries including Bold Rock Cider who is opening a location near Asheville very soon.

Nomadic Church of Fermentation meeting at Granite Falls Brewing Sunday August 02, 2015.

Shawn –

BBC, Funk Asheville, Barleywine/Mead imbueing,

Brewed fantasy draft beer.

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Beer/Brewery industry news/updates:

A.L.E. Cracking Down!

New lager strain?

Raleigh Beer Garden – (Applying for Guinness World Record) 366 individual taps of beer, rooftop deck, patio seating and some pretty impressive trees inside. the first level houses 144 taps of North Carolina beers. Upstairs, there is another bar with 222 beers from around the world on tap

Three Spirits Brewery planning on opening in September. Near Sugarcreek and OMB

Good Road Cider – Also in the same area as Sugar Creek and OMB.

Q&A with Jay Goodwin (Thanks to Mink The Funk):