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< Previous Next > NoDa Brewing Adds Distribution to Greenville, SC October 25, 2019 NoDa Brewing Company is excited to announce that it will be expanding its territory into the Greenville, South Carolina market with Greenco Beverage Company this November. NoDa Brewing will enter the Greenville market with World Beer Cup American IPA Gold medal winner Hop Drop ‘n Roll IPA, CAVU Blonde Ale, GABF Silver medal winner Coco Loco Porter, Jam Session Pale Ale, OG Kolsch, Radio Haze Juicy/Hazy IPA and more. Draft will be available for all brands, with select brands available in 16 oz canned four-packs. “We are excited about our entry into the emerging Greenville craft beer market,” said Suzie Ford, President of NoDa Brewing Company. “Greenville, and partnering with Greenco Beverage, seemed like the perfect fit for our first of several expansions over the next year.” Steve Brookshire, Brands Manager for Greenco Beverage states, “We are extremely excited to add NoDa Brewing to our portfolio family. NoDa demonstrates the quality and characteristics of a brand that we believe in and strive to represent.” Greenco Beverage Company, a leader in beverage distribution in the northwestern part of upstate South Carolina, was established in 1916 and will distribute NoDa in Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenwood, Greenville, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, and Union counties. Opening its tap room doors in 2011, NoDa became one of Charlotte’s first craft breweries. Three short years later, Hop Drop ‘n Roll — their most popular IPA — took home the World Beer Cup Gold Award in the competition’s largest category. This recognition propelled the brewery onto a national stage, and attributed to the quick expansion from a 15-barrel brewhouse in the NoDa neighborhood to a 60 barrel brewhouse in nearby North End. Today, NoDa Brewing Company continues to brew award-winning beers, stand as a pillar of creativity and connection in the community, and add to the state’s thriving craft beer economy.

< Previous Next > NoDa Hops And Chill Creative Giveaway February 28, 2022 GIVEAWAY ALERT Get your cameras and vintage lawn chairs ready because we’re back with another creative contest featuring our new, year-round IPA Hopsadaisical! For this contest we will choose 2 winners that show the most creativity of how they enjoy Hopsadaisical. We will choose one winner that is a photo entry and another winner that is in a video/TikTok/Reels entry Each winner will receive: 1 Lawn Chair USA vintage chair ($85 value) + 1 RTIC 15-can cooler ($35 value) + $25 NoDa Brewing Gift Card + Work For Your Beer shirt of choice ➡️Here’s how to enter: 1. Post your best and most creative photo or video of how you enjoy Hopsadaisical by April 30th, 2022 at 2pm EST on Instagram 2. Use #NoDaHopsAndChill in the caption and tag @nodabrewing 3. Follow @nodabrewing and @workforyourbeer Tag all of your IPA beer-loving, photographer/creative video friends so they can get in on the action, too! This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with Instagram. By entering the contest you are releasing Instagram of responsibility. Winners must be 21 years of age and older. Winners cannot be a business or entity with the exception of freelancers.

< Previous Next > Grain to Glass Series: Packaging July 28, 2017 If you haven’t read the first post in this series, hop back and read “ Grain to Glass Series Introduction ,” then come here! In 2012, the year after our opening, we were ready to begin packaging our products so that fans and customers could enjoy our beer no matter where they were! We started with a few limited bottle releases, but in 2013, owners Todd and Suzie Ford were ready to get creative by packaging our beer in a way that no one else in the city and surrounding area was. We unveiled our brand new 16 oz. Hop Drop ‘N Roll and Jam Session cans that year and immediately we knew we had a hit on our hands. In the last four years since, we’ve really cranked up the can game. Admittedly, we’re can-crazy, and it’s been contagious; The #ShowYourCans hashtag that we coined has generated nearly 6,000 fan photos! When we first began canning at our original N. Davidson brewery, we were canning about 30 cans per minute. Today, on the new system at our N. Tryon brewery, we’ve quadrupled our productivity, and now produce about 120 cans per minute. In 2017, we’ve already canned more than 989,000 cans! In fact, about half of our sales are thanks to our cans. Here are a few more can-tastic packaging facts: We can about 100 barrels of beer at a time. The largest amount that we’ve canned at one time is 33,600 cans (It was NoDa Bandito, our Mexican Lager). To date, we’ve canned 2.5 million Hop Drop ‘N Rolls! To date, we’ve canned 5.2 million beers! One of the things we’ve loved the most is packaging is redesigning our popular beer labels to be can-ready. Below is a list of all the beers we’ve canned thus far (and their introduction dates): Hop Drop ‘N Roll - September 2013 Jam Session - September 2013 CAVU - March 2014 Coco Loco - October 2014 Hoppy Holidays - December 2014 Hop Cakes - Feb 2015 NoDajito - May 2015 Gordgeous - September 2015 Par 4 - April 2016 River Jam Jam Session - May 2016 Ramble on Red - June 2016 Monstro - October 2016 Sticky When Wet - October 2016 NoDaRyeZ’d - October 2016 Captain Peanut Butter’s Chocolate Revenge - October 2016 Stop, Collaborate & Glisten - October 2016 Good Will Hopping - October 2016 Roaring Riot - November 2016 NoDa Bandito - April 2017 Pacific Reign - April 2017 Woody & Wilcox’s Hop Experiment - May 2017 Cheers to many more years of cans! Check out exactly how we do it here:

< Previous Next > The Beer That Started It All June 15, 2017 Hop Drop ‘N Roll started as a home brew recipe in the garage of our founder, and North Carolina native, Todd Ford . Todd started home brewing in Charlotte in the early 1990’s as a hobby when he was at home from his airline pilot job. Todd’s favorite styles to brew were India Pale Ales and Porters. His first home brew beers were clones of Samuel Smith ’s Nut Brown Ale and Sierra Nevada ’s Pale Ale. Todd spent a lot of weekend layovers on the west coast where he was introduced to exceptional hop-forward beers that he tried to recreate when he returned home. The beers of Coronado , Ballast Point , Port Brewing , Russian River , North Coast , Ninkasi and Sierra Nevada were all influential in Todd’s home brew development. Many iterations and hop combinations later, Todd’s house IPA was becoming more refined with the help of fellow home brewers (and friends) from the Carolina Brewmasters . Because of hop shortages throughout Todd’s years of homebrewing, the primary hops in his house IPA went from Simcoe and Citra to Amarillo and Citra, with two other varieties in support. Using a base grain combination of American two-row barley and English Maris Otter added more depth to the malt bill to support the bigger hop flavors and ABV. While newer IPAs seem to purposely mute the malt aspects of their beers to focus entirely on the hop flavors and aromas, we think that our recipe, with attention to both hops and malt, adds better balance. Hop Drop ‘N Roll is essentially the same recipe as the original home brew version but adapted and refined by our brewing experts to account for equipment updates and the inevitable year-to-year changes in malt and hop crops. Hop Drop ‘N Roll makes use of first wort hopping, kettle hopping, whirlpool hopping, hopback hopping and of course, dry hopping. Did we say we like hops? Every single year our brewers travel to Yakima, Washington, and Woodburn, Oregon to select the exact hops that will be in every NoDa beer the following year. The quality of hops directly affect the quality of the finished beer, so why would you trust the selection process to someone else? When Hop Drop ‘N Roll was being brewed on a 1/2 BBL system and served at Todd and Suzie’s house parties, it was certainly a favorite among their friends; all these years later (now brewed on a 60 BBL system), it is still our most popular beer. In fact, we now brew more Hop Drop ‘N Roll per day than we did in our entire first two years of operation, although a shortage of Citra and Amarillo hops in those couple of years does contribute to that statistic; Have no fear though, we now have hop contracts in place, so you don’t have to fret about us running out of this sweet nectar. The popularity of Hop Drop ‘N Roll also skyrocketed because it brought home the Gold Award at the 2014 World Beer Cup, making it the best IPA in the WORLD, and one of our greatest accomplishments!

< Previous Next > NoDajito Wins GOLD Medal at the 2016 Great American Beer Festival® October 4, 2016 NoDajito wins coveted brewing honor in acclaimed beer competition NoDa Brewing Company earned a gold medal at the 2016 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition. Presented by the Brewers Association , GABF is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the United States. The top three winners in the competition’s 96 beer-style categories were announced on October 8th at the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. NoDa Brewing Company was recognized in the Herb and Spice Beer category for NoDajito, a Belgian Wit infused with mint leaves and lime zest. NoDa Brewing is a 60-barrel brewery located in Charlotte North Carolina that prides itself in serving great beer across the Carolinas. The 2016 GABF competition winners were selected by an international panel of 264 expert judges from the record number of 7,227 entries, plus 88 Pro-Am entries, received from 1,752 U.S. breweries. “The innovation, creativity and flavor of American beers was well showcased at this year’s Great American Beer Festival,” said Chris Swersey, competition manager, Great American Beer Festival. “This was the most competitive competition to date, with a record number of entries. Congratulations to all the winners who truly demonstrated the best of America’s beer culture.” For more GABF competition information, including the 2016 winners list and photos, visit GreatAmericanBeerFestival.com .