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A look at Charlotte's largest craft breweries

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte is home to two of North Carolina’s largest breweries, The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery and NoDa Brewing Co., according to CBJ’s latest installment of The List, which ranks craft breweries by number of barrels produced in 2017

In 2017, OMB and NoDa brewed over 21,000 and 15,000 31-gallon barrels, respectively. Production at both breweries remained relatively constant year-over-year.

Overall, North Carolina’s 257 craft breweries produced 1.2 million barrels in 2017. The state ranked seventh in the U.S. for production and eighth for number of craft breweries, according to the Brewers Association.

Check out the full lists as well as popular Charlotte breweries' best-selling beers here. 

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