Wilmington Brewing Company’s “Moon Dance Blonde Ale” beat out hundreds of submissions around the state to place in the annual Brewers Cup Competition in Mocksville last month while eight other area breweries also took home awards. Read Full Article
What started out for bar manager Molly Braxton of Mad Mole Brewing as simple research has ended in award-winning recognition. Wilmington’s newest brewery is cloaked as America’s Favorite Solar Craft Microbrewery. “Honestly, it was a random chain of events,” Braxton tells. “I Googled ‘brewed by the sun’ to see if we’d pop up because we use the term in a lot of…
The brewery opened in May 2018 and operates on a seven-barrel electric system, which is now powered in part by solar panels. The 63 SunPower solar panels are visible from Mad Mole’s taproom where there are 12 beers on draft. The partners wanted solar to help power their operations using the suns energy and they saw immediate savings in their…