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There is quite a bit going on at Blackbird Brewery this month! First and foremost, we are delighted to announce we passed our final inspection with the Town of Wake Forest last week and will be bringing you more delicious beers asap! In the meantime, we’ve got quite a lineup of events in the coming […]

This past weekend, husband and wife owners Ian and Harmony VanGundy represented Blackbird Brewery at the NC Rare & Vintage Beer Tasting in the Historic Durham Athletic Park. The festival celebrates beer culture by providing the opportunity to taste beers you would never get to try outside of living near the brewery or attending a

 Spectrum News recently visited Blackbird Brewery to speak with our very own Harmony VanGundy about how blood donation impacted her life. Harmony didn’t hold back when sharing that she would not be here today without the more than 50 people that donated blood in the days and weeks leading up to her childbirth in September

As we honor the work and life of Martin Luther King, Jr. today, we thought we would share a fun fact about our brewery name. Our name Blackbird was inspired by, yup you guessed it, The Beatles song. While researching the song we came across some interviews with Paul McCartney about the song’s origin. Blackbird

September 24, 2017 was supposed to be a joyous day full of celebration of life and love. I was due with our third child, and we were expecting another uneventful, easy delivery. However, things quickly and unexpectedly turned very bad. On September 23, 2017, I was admitted to North WakeMed for high blood pressure and

We recently sat down with Ian VanGundy, head brewer and co-owner of Blackbird Brewery, to ask the questions we’ve been hearing most often. Read on to learn about Ian’s background, what’s coming soon, and what makes the Blackbird brewing process unique. When and what will you be brewing?  The Blackbird brewhouse comes online late January.

Rarely will you engage in conversation about how great the Charlotte beer scene is without mention of Wooden Robot Brewery. Dedicated to the art of funky fermentations, they boast one of the best foeder and barrel programs in the state. It turns out all that advanced knowledge makes them pretty damn good at clean beers

Our first collab as Blackbird Brewery was a Czech-style Pilsner with one of our favorite lager brewers, Burning Blush. This family-owned brewery in Mills River, NC spared no expense in their taproom decor, glassware and presentation. They share our passion and patience for long, cold and slow fermentations, natural carbonation poured with a big frothy