Craft Beverage Trail

This Pittsboro store sells a variety of craft beverages, including beer ?, and features a sit-down bar where customers can visit and buy beer on tap. Shoppers can also buy individual bottles of beer, many of which come from North Carolina and surrounding southern states. Customers can also special order beverages online to be picked...

Nano-brewery that started home brewing 12 years ago with the goal of increasing beer appreciation by making great tasting options available to the drinking public. Everything is recycled or made in-house, and they only use fresh ingredients, many of which are homegrown. Using American malts, hops, and yeast, Bear Creek brews in small batches, ensuring...

This locally owned restaurant and brewery has drawn national attention for its handcrafted, award-winning beers. They make a variety of different beers including new seasonal brews, and continue to expand their options every year. Interested customers can go on a fun tour through the brewery where they’ll have all their questions answered about how the...

Chatham Cider Works (CCW) introduces a locally produced hard cider made from North Carolina apples. The cidery is owned and operated by Maureen Ahmad and Jim Crawford. “We wanted to make a cider that tasted like what my family drank on my uncle’s farm,” says Jim. CCW’s hard cider is unfiltered, and higher in alcohol...

Cloer Family Vineyards is a unique family owned and operated winery. They grow their own grapes and produce their wine on-site, and the entire family is involved in the process. Three of their five wines are made with North Carolina’s native Muscadine grapes, and all five are aged and bottled onsite. Along with selling their...

This local distillery features North Carolina grown and produced wines and spirit. All customers are welcome to come in purchase their choice selection, or buy online. The distillery offers tours with guided tastings where they show the art of distilling, fortifying, barrel aging, and blending their wines, as well as the crops for the their...

Farm Boy Farms is a Chatham County People-First Tourism micro-entrepreneur that provides locally grown barley, wheat, and hops to microbrewers and expert home brewers. Farm Boys controls the entire process, from planting, to harvesting, to processing, and packaging. They strive to grow quality ingredients so brewers can make the freshest craft beer possible. The farm...

Visit this winery, specializing in hand-crafted wines made from sustainably-farmed grapes grown in their own vineyard. Visit for tastings and tour their winemaking facility and vineyard. Wine tastings and tours take place Saturdays, with five wines. They offer several award-winning wines available for purchase on-site or online. Special discounts for cases. Hours: 11am – 5pm. Tastings are...

House of Hops is a family-owned craft beer retail store that opened in July 2014.  We have over 400 bottled and canned beers, and feature 24 rotating draft beers.  CLICK the “On Tap” tab to see our current draft list.  We fill clean 32oz and 64oz growlers.  Purchase one of ours, or bring your own. We...