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Belly Up To The Bar And Meet NC Brewers

By Hady Mawajdeh,
Frank Stasio
Published October 27, 2014 at 12:00 PM EDT
Growler from Front Street Brewery in Wilmington, NC.
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Craft beers are filling the shelves and taps around North Carolina. 

From the mountains to the coast, new breweries are opening. The national Brewer’s Association put the economic impact  of craft beer in the state at more than $791 million dollars in 2012. There are 110 breweries across the state and the industry supports 10,000 jobs.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Margo Knight-Metzger, executive director of the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild and WUNC reporter Jeff Tiberii about the state of brewing.

Then he speaks with the Director of Fermentation Sciences at Appalachian State University, Seth Cohen;  Craft Beverage Institute director at Asheville-Buncombe Tech Community College, Scott Adams; and Rocky MountBrewmillbrewmaster Sebastian Wolfrum, about education and the future of brewing.

He also talks with Kevin Kozak, brewmaster at Front Street Brewery in Wilmington. and Ellen Joyner, co-owner of Bombshell Brewery in Holly Springs, one of the state's female-owned breweries.

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Hady Mawajdeh
Hady Mawajdeh is a native Texan, born and raised in San Antonio. He listened to Fresh Air growing up and fell in love with public radio. He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication at Texas State University and specialized in electronic media. He worked at NPR affiliate stations KUT and KUTX in Austin, Texas as an intern, producer, social media coordinator, and a late-night deejay.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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