Carolina Brewery houses "Chatham's Second Man Made Wonder"

By Meg Miller
Posted Monday, August 6, 2007

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Pittsboro, NC - All this talk of needing restaurants and movie theaters and shops is all true. But it doesn't have to be the mega mall disaster.

I toured the Carolina Brewery yesterday and there is nothing like it in Chatham. I'm dubbing the walk in beer cooler with it's 20 foot ceiling and huge vats of brew "Chatham's Second Man Made Wonder".The first of course would be Jordan Lake. The big difference here being you can't drink what's in the lake.

It seat 200+ with a private meeting room upstairs. This is much needed in these parts.

It's got a wholesale brew business. And while it offers jobs like most service industry jobs do, lower pay and attractive to high school and college kids, it's a great place to work.

These are the businesses we need. Local. Home grown. The owner is a UNC grad and lives here in Chatham with his family. He has a vested interest.

I do worry about the traffic in and out of the Lowe's complex. It's poorly lit, and can get really hairy. I guess there's going to be a light there?

Anyway, I'm sick of going out of county for so many things. But this Pittsboro Place is not the answer. There are other ways of having our cake and not choking on it. The Brewery is just the first of many hopefully. I hear there is going to be a theater in that same complex?

The Carolina Brewery opens for dinner on the 6th of August from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. They open for lunch and dinner starting the 20th of Aug from 11 am to 11 pm.

There also a retail shop next door where you can get quick to go stuff .

Support local and not the out of towner carpet baggers.