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USA Today declares: Olde Mecklenburg has nation’s best brewery tour

The Story

Charlotte’s sprawling brewery off Old Pineville Road beat out Samuel Adams, Sierra Nevada and Yuengling in a readers’ vote for Best Brewery Tour.

The Facts

– Experts for USA Today’s 10 Best picked the initial 20 breweries, and Olde Meck was the only N.C. brewery on the list.

– Readers were then asked to vote, based on “tours to remember.”

The Quotes

C5’s Take

Want to take the award winning tour? – “FREE tours of the brewery are given on Saturdays at 2, 3, and 4, and Sundays at 2, 3, and 4.”

The new digs of Olde Mecklenburg Brewery are outstanding – biergarten, grass for kids to run around on, spacious but warm interior. We love this honor for a Charlotte brewery, and we love how the Queen City’s craft beer scene is getting even more national attention.

Here’s some more good beer news: If you just can’t make it out to a beer house, a new business launches Saturday that will figure out the beer you like and deliver it to your house. That’s world class beer service.

Photo: Ortega Gaines / Charlotte Observer

This story was originally published December 4, 2014 at 6:21 AM with the headline "USA Today declares: Olde Mecklenburg has nation’s best brewery tour."

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