Mad Mole Brewing is a local brewery that focuses on sustainability and making a positive impact on the local community. Since its foundation, Mad Mole Brewing has crafted beer “Brewed by the Sun.” A 9×6 array of solar panels on the brewery roof helps to supply and offset power used for day-to-day operations, including brewing. Mad Mole has also been…
Mad Mole Brewing’s Green Initiative continues strong. Wilmington, NC July 13, 2023 One year into improving sustainability, Mad Mole Brewing has made dramatic differences and has more plans for the future. Beginning in 2020, Mad Mole Brewing began to look at reducing their waste streams and ways to improve the sustainability of the brewery. From its inception, Mad Mole Brewing…
Over the past year, Mad Mole Brewing has been working on making our brewery space more sustainable. Operations manager Dano Ferons has worked alongside his University of North Carolina Wilmington student interns on many projects. One of the projects our team has been working on is Permeable pavers for our parking lot. Permeable pavers are an alternative to traditional paving…
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…
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WILMINGTON — The coworkers of 22 years bonded over a mutual love for craft beer a long time ago, but the obsession of creating began about eight years ago when the company they worked for merged offices and landed in Wilmington. “It started, you know, stirring on the stove,” reminisced de Jongh. “It got to where it was like, ‘Well…
WILMINGTON — Mad Mole Brewing, opening soon on Oleander Drive, is only the latest addition to Wilmington’s bustling craft beer scene. But the owners aren’t worried about competition. In fact, they’ve embraced their fellow brewers – and the feeling has been mutual. New kids on the block Owners and brewers Martin de Jongh and Ole Peterson hope that Mad Mole,…
A few Wilmingtonians across social media have argued there may be a saturation point for breweries the Port City can sustain. The majority, however, contend there’s plenty of room to grow. In 2016 Smartasset reported Wilmington as the seventh best city for beer drinkers in the country—tied with Denver, Colorado. At the time, Wilmington had nine open breweries, totaling 7.76…