
Charlotte Beer Garden
Clip: Season 22 Episode 16 | 4m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
The world's largest draft selection makes the Charlotte Beer Garden a treat for brew enthusiasts.
With the largest selection of draft beer in the world, the Charlotte Beer Garden is truly a treat for brew enthusiasts. Find out why this place is hoppin’—from the brews to the bites and everything in between.
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Charlotte Beer Garden
Clip: Season 22 Episode 16 | 4m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
With the largest selection of draft beer in the world, the Charlotte Beer Garden is truly a treat for brew enthusiasts. Find out why this place is hoppin’—from the brews to the bites and everything in between.
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Let's find out why this place is hopping from the brews to the bites and everything in between.
[upbeat music] - Charlotte Beer Garden's a fun place.
It's a three-story beer haven of the 436 beers we got, which is the most in the world under one roof right now.
Anything you got a taste for, we got it here.
We have the local bar, which houses only North and South Carolina beers, that's on the first floor.
The international bar on the second floor houses everything but the North and South Carolina beers.
My personal favorite, which is the crowd favorite, is the local bar downstairs.
We take a lot of pride in making sure we take as many local brews as we can and put them on tap for everybody.
We do have 24 taps on the rooftop, which are the top sellers within all the floors.
- There are 436, 190 of 'em are local breweries from here, Asheville, and all over North Carolina.
Upstairs, we got 222 beers from outside, and rooftop, we got 28 that are just everything, some of the more popular things here.
Right now, we're going through a lot of October fests, getting in winter stouts, pumpkin spice, everybody loves pumpkin spice right now.
There's a full cocktail bar over here, and then we can do mocktails and pretty much anything that anybody wants.
[upbeat music] - We've got hefeweizens from Germany on our second floor, we've got lagers, we've got fruity wheat beers that are fun, like, one of my favorites is a Blueberry Wheat by Pisgah Brewing.
You can ask for something and we'll find you something in the style that you like.
I always say the top three are Lightning Drops by Resident Culture, it's a hazy, juicy IPA that's really good, the Blueberry Wheat by Pisgah, and then for just the classic beer, the Hummin' Bird Lager that's really good, by Red Oak.
So we are one of the only places in the area that serves food till 2:00 AM.
We serve food all day long, every day.
We've got good bar food, there's pretzels on there, pizzas that are great for sharing.
And we have lots of fun apps, like we have tuna, wontons as appetizers, they're really good.
- I got a Oktoberfest from Sierra Nevada.
It's only out for a limited time, so I really like drinking seasonal things, and then I got the Beer Garden burger here.
I've been here a couple of times, and every time I eat that, it fills me up, two patties, all the fixings, some fries, can't go wrong with a classic, I feel like, so it pairs real well with the beer [laughs].
- It's just a really fun, cool place.
You know, we try to do everything as green as possible.
Just the whole setup is one thing I really, really love about it.
The fresh air is coming through, we got the tree over here, making the tree house, so it just makes working more fun, 'cause it feels like you're actually outside when you working, and it's just really, really cool.
- One of the things I love most about Charlotte Beer Garden is the fact that everything constantly changes.
There's always new beers coming through, there's always new people coming through, and it's always a different experience for you.
So we have a lot of Happy Hour groups that come in, a lot of business people as well as just people who are just, you know, out and about, a lot of travelers, people coming into town, wanna see something, experience something that they haven't experienced before.
- There's something for everybody.
436 beers is crazy, that's insane.
There's liquor too, food is really good.
I mean, it's just always good vibes here.
- We have all sorts of events.
Like over summer, there was yoga on Monday nights, held up on our roof, which was really cool.
We do trivia, work parties happen all the time here, you can rent out the space for a wedding party, stuff like that.
- It's a large city, but it's not, but it's got a very small-town feel, so a lot of different people come through and just experience everything, and it's just right in the perfect spot for, you know, any kind of traveler or any kind of local people.
- I love going to the breweries and drinking there, but when I can come here and they essentially come to me so I have 'em all right in front of me, and I can pick, and I can drink one from down the road in NoDa, and then down the road in South End, and they're on the same wall, that helps.
There's probably not a whole lot of people in Charlotte that would come here and can't find what they wanna drink, right?
- This is the neighborhood where everyone goes out on the weekends.
It's the place to be, kind of in the middle of where everyone's hanging out, so if you're visiting, the Charlotte Beer Garden's great, 'cause there's tons of breweries in Charlotte, but here, you can get something from one place, and then your second beer, get something from another place.
You can try everything.
[upbeat music] - Charlotte Beer Garden pours their brews at 1300 South Tryon Street in Charlotte.
They're open every day of the week from 11:00 to 2:00 AM.
To find out more, head to charlottebeergarden.com, or give them a call at 704-375-1776.
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