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Air Force and Army veteran. Award-winning reporter, author, digital editor and marketer and statewide expert. Writer and teacher with extensive experience in everything from immediate deadline news online briefs to long-form investigative analysis. Fitness and nutrition enthusiast and father of twins. Now lead medical writer for the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine at Campbell University. Currently involved in writing and producing documentary-style film focusing on the people of Campbell’s med school.
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By John Trump Rod Brind'Amour is a North Carolinian. The words-his words-are clear and direct. Blunt, even. "I've been here since January of 2000," he says, a simple statement of fact. "I've been here 22 years now. My wife's from here. We've got four kids; we raised them all here."
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A bill that would align laws for North Carolina craft distilleries more closely with rules governing wine and craft beer easily cleared the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, June 18. It now heads to Senate Rules. Senate Bill 290, Distiller Regulatory Reform Bill, would allow N.C.
WAKE FOREST - Ian and Harmony VanGundy make some of the best beer in the Triangle. In North Carolina and beyond, for that matter. People who know beer, who drink beer, just, well, know. Blackbird Brewery makes myriad styles. With patience, care and precision, right down to the glassware specific to the respective style.
Head distiller Chris Jude steps through a door at the High Wire Distilling Co. in Charleston, South Carolina. Jude, who's from Boone, enters the tasting room and bar, making the short trip from the place spirits are made to the place spirits are served.
The Pour House Music Hall and Record Shop is eerily quiet. Dusty. Empty. It's as though the music hall is still under construction, or in some stage of renovation. A cordless drill and some sound equipment are spread out over one end of the L-shaped bar, adjacent to a row of beer taps.
Parity. It's what North Carolina's craft distillers wanted most, really. To, in a regulatory and statutory sense, take their place in line with the state's brewers and vintners. If not in front of them, then just behind, in a place where they can extend an arm and gently tap them on the shoulder.
N.C. lawmakers, one could argue, have had unprecedented success this legislative session in reforming the state's archaic laws governing spirituous liquor. Senate Bill 290 - which passed the Senate, 39-4, and was sent to the House, where it passed the House ABC Committee and now sits in the House's Rules Committee - is one example.
Every year, right around this time, a voracious group of music fans - a cult of sorts - overtakes a rough, wooded hillside at Wilkes Community College in North Carolina. They arrive early. To secure a spot under a tree, which will provide shade or deflect some of the rain.
The long, scraggly gray beard is decidedly fake. The worn straw hat and the fedora - a reference to today's distiller, who wears many hats to get his products on the shelves - are clever theater. But they're only props, Vann McCoy's way of introducing you to Mayberry Spirits.