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SHEVILLE, NC, IS KNOWN GLOBALLY FOR BEING A HOTSPOT FOR American craft beer. The mountain city was named "Beer City, USA" in the Examiner's poll for four years running, and even craft big leaguers New Belgium and Sierra Nevada have set up East Coast breweries in the town. A great tourist destination in its own right, Wilmington is answering the call to take part in the NC craft craze; while Front Street Brewery has been the city's only established brewery since the '90s, a total of five new brewpubs are set to open this summer. Broomtail Craft Brewery has already opened up shop in the Dutch Square Industrial Park. Not to be outdone, Southport will soon be home to Brunswick County's only brewery: Check Six Brewing Company. As the beer correspondent for Devour, Wilmington's quarterly food and beverage magazine, I've seen first-hand what the beverage industry can do for tourism. I knew the addition of Check Six would garner Southport more attention from visitors with a broader range of interests. Come fall of this year, when Check Six is slated to open, guests to our charming coastal town will be able to partake in the local film scene by touring locales for "Safe Haven" and more; they'll be Noah Goldman, CEO and brewmaster of Check Six Brewing Company, and his crew worked with Kersting Architecture to develop this able to taste fresh shrimp from our own waters at family-run res- conceptual floor plan of the brewery and taproom, slated to open taurants; they'll enjoy shopping at boutiques owned by our neigh- this fall. Courtesy image bors; and they'll wash it all down with a cold sudsy one from our own local brewery. Our writer Sara Beth McLamb has the scoop on the upcoming brewery and taproom on pages 20 and 21. She sat down with CEO and brewmaster Noah Goldman for the story, and snapped some "before" pictures during the location's construction phase. To Check Six, we say, "Welcome!" We can't wait to see what you'll do with the place. Another highlight of this month's edition is our cover story. Southport Magazine's owner, Kris Beasley, and I were moved by the words of Katelyn Auger and Michelle Richards as they described their reasons for loving Southport. We sent out a prompt on the subject asking for creative writing samples or photography from South Brunswick High School seniors—Katelyn delivered on both ends, and it's her image, "Sailing Along Southport's Coast" that you see on our cover. Flip to pages 12 and 13 to read their essays and view more photographs. We can't wait to present two college scholarships to two very deserving students!
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Happy sipping and loving Southport,