Cheers, Charlotte: Several beers from local breweries crowned on national stage
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- Eleven Charlotte-area breweries earned 18 medals at 2025 U.S. Open Beer Championship
- Primal, Sugar Creek and Triple C Brewing each secured multiple national awards
- Winning breweries span Charlotte, Huntersville, Fort Mill, Monroe and beyond
Several Charlotte-area breweries are now national champions.
11 establishments across the Queen City and its suburbs earned a combined 18 medals — including seven golds — at the 2025 U.S. Open Beer Championship.
This year’s championship judged more than 8,000 beers from across the country in 170 categories and subcategories, honoring creativity, craftsmanship and technical precision in every pour.
From juicy IPAs to bold Belgian ales, here are the medal winners — and where to find their award-winning brews in Charlotte, Huntersville, Fort Mill, Monroe and beyond:
Primal Brewing
Location: 16432 Old Statesville Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078
Location: 52 Ervin St, Belmont, NC 28012
Gold: Gentle Giant — Session IPA
Bronze: Wheat Without Worry — Non-Alcoholic Malt Beverage
Primal Brewing was voted the area’s best brewery by the CharlotteFive Readers’ Choice in 2022. The Huntersville location opened in 2014, while it has also been in Belmont for the past five years. Its “Corruption by Proxy” stout won gold at the U.S. Open last year, as well as earning gold at last year’s North Carolina Brewers Cup.
Sugar Creek Brewing Company
Gold: Belgian Quad — Belgian Quadrupel
Silver: Belgian Dubbel — Belgian Dubbel
Bronze: The Big O — Fruit IPA
Sugar Creek Brewing recently won a gold medal at the 2023 World Beer Cup for its Quad, in the Belgian-style Abbey Ale category.
Location: 215 Southside Dr, Charlotte, NC 28217
Triple C Brewing Company
Gold: Planet Pulp — New England/Juicy IPA
Silver: Uncle John’s — American Style Wheat Beer
Bronze: Zest A Peel — American Style Fruit Beer (orange)
Triple C Brewing’s Boxer Brown Ale took home a bronze medal among dark lagers in last year’s Charlotte Independent Brewers Alliance. It’s one of three local breweries that are featured at the Carolina Malt House in Rowan County.
Location: 2900 Griffith St, Charlotte, NC 28203
NoDa Brewing Company
Gold: Lil’ Slurp — Experimental IPA
NoDa Brewing, whose original location closed at the end of last year, is a staple in Charlotte. Its signature “Hop, Drop, ‘N Roll” West Coast-style IPA won gold in the 2021 U.S. Open — along with winning gold at the 2014 World Beer Cup.
Location: 150 W 32nd St, Charlotte, NC 28206
Replay Brewing
Silver: EZ Baked — Experimental IPA
Silver: Transplant — Collaboration IPA
Replay Brewing, the arcade-themed brewery in Fort Mill’s growing Kingsley area, is among more than a dozen breweries in York County. Its award-winning “transplant” is a collaboration with Wild Heart Brewing Company of Hartsville, S.C., plus Greenville-area establishments Liability Brewing, Magnetic South and Double Stamp.
Location: 1317 Broadcloth St, Fort Mill, SC 29715
Pilot Brewing Company
Silver: Island Hopper IPA — Single-Hop IPA
Silver: Huckleberry Cheesecake Gose — Contemporary Gose
Pilot Brewing claimed the No. 5 spot overall at the 2022 U.S. Open Beer Championship, ranking among the Top 10 breweries nationally. Its “Prickly Pearfection” won gold at last year’s U.S. Open for near-gluten-free or gluten-reduced beer.
Location: 1331 Central Ave Suite 104, Charlotte, NC 28205
Neoteric Brewing
Silver: Last Day at the Office — California Common Beer
Bronze: Yarnburner — English Summer Ale
Neoteric Brewing is a U.S. Open medalist for the second consecutive year after its Argos IPA won bronze in the Experimental IPA category.
Location: 14220 Oakhill Park Ln, Huntersville, NC 28078
Americana Beer Company
Silver: New Slang Belgian Saison — French and Belgian Saison
Americana Beer Company took home multiple U.S. Open bronze medals in 2023. The Monroe brewery earned national recognition for both its imperial stout and Cranberry Herb Saison, a Belgian-style fruit beer.
Location: 222 N Main St, Monroe, NC 28112
760 Craft Works
Gold: Shrouded Reflections of Moonlight — German-Style Schwarzbier
760 Craft Works — named for Lake Norman being 760 feet above sea level — has been nominated for the Normy Awards’ best brewery in the community.
Location: 100 Gilead Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078
Model A Brewing Company
Gold: Anniversary Stout — American-Style Fruit Beer (raspberry)
Model A Brewing, the first brewery in Tega Cay, won three bronze medals in last year’s U.S. Open — its Finley’s Alt (German Altbier), Just Bockause (traditional German-style bock) and Springs Farm Strawberry Kolsch (American fruit — strawberry).
Location: 1175 Stonecrest Blvd, Fort Mill, SC 29708
Southern Range Brewing Company
Gold: Strawberry Shandy — American-Style Fruit Beer (strawberry)
Southern Range Brewing’s hazy IPA “Tiny Ass Umbrella” won gold among New England-style IPAs in 2022 at the inaugural Charlotte Independent Brewers Alliance.
Location: 151 S Stewart St, Monroe, NC 28112
This story was originally published July 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM.
