The Chatham Beverage District
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The Chatham Beverage District in Pittsboro offers a winery, cidery, and distillery.
The Chatham Beverage District in Pittsboro offers a winery, cidery, and distillery-all in one destination.
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The Chatham Beverage District
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The Chatham Beverage District in Pittsboro offers a winery, cidery, and distillery-all in one destination.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[upbeat music] - Chatham Beverage District is a collection of small-scale artisan producers using local ingredients, making delicious products.
The people can taste and carry home.
Today it includes Fair Game Beverage Company, where I work, and Chatham Cider Works, Jim and Maureen, and Starrlight Mead, which is Ben and Becky up on the hill.
- [Group] Cheers!
We're not a bar.
We are a tasting room, and it's a place where you have a different consumer experience than you can find anywhere else.
[upbeat music] [laughter] So this is our amber room.
So you've come down to the end of Lorax Lane.
Here at our eco-industrial park, you come into the Fair Game tasting room and you either get a beer, we got craft beer on tap, or you get a cider made in North Carolina, or you do a spirits tasting, you learn about how craft spirits are made.
On the lawn there's a life-sized chess set.
We've got a nature interpretive trail that surrounds the campus.
You walk the trail, hang out, have beer or wine or cider or spirits tasting or mead.
You can also join in with a group of folks that have come for a distillery tour.
You can go up and tour the meatery.
We've got swing set playground, teeter totter for the kids.
It's where the food is grown the beverages are made, and it's a lot of stuff to take in.
- That's good.
It's not super sweet either.
- No.
- It's good.
- We're here part of a happening in Chatham County and we're also on the cusp of a really growing segment in beverages.
[upbeat music] - Well, we're committed to using only North Carolina apples so we go to Henderson County, where we work with orchardist there.
We get juice that's not been blended or pasteurized or had any kind of preservatives added to it.
We want it just as Mother Nature makes it.
- We ascribe to the principle that cider was made with the fruit that was grown near you.
All of our ciders are very dry.
I'd call it almost a European style of cider.
- Our bourbon style is called Highway 64 because we're off Highway 64 and the orchards we go to are in Highway 64 in Henderson County near Bat Cave.
- So we say it connects us, treat a bottle.
- Mead is really just fermented honey.
Beer is fermented from grain.
Grape wine is fermented from grapes.
Mead is from fermented honey.
- Okay, so I'm gonna recommend tryin' this one first.
This two types of ginger, both dried and fresh.
- One of the things that people don't realize about mead is they hear honey and they assume that it's all sweet and thick and syrupy and it doesn't have to be.
We do both dry meads and sweet meads.
We give them something and we say, this is made out of honey, and they taste it and go, wow, it's not sweet.
- Isn't nice?
- Yeah, it's really good.
- Yeah.
- People that like mead tend to also be craft beverage drinkers and so, having other craft beverages in the area is fantastic.
[upbeat music] - We're the 13th legal distillery in North Carolina.
We make distilled spirits, artisan, craft, barrel aged, small batch spirits, which we sell here at our tasting room and also at ABC stores across North Carolina.
We were here making fuel at Piedmont Biofuels.
These folks wanted to open up a distillery on our campus and I thought, wow, fuel business is hard.
If you're gonna go to all the trouble of making alcohol, maybe you should drink it.
Drink the best and burn the rest.
What makes Fair Game Beverage different from other distilleries in the state is our barrel aging program.
Our aged spirits are north of two years, on average.
All of our ingredients are local.
- What's great about it is there are no televisions in there and we've actually heard from a lot of people that that's what they want.
They wanna sit around tables, they wanna sit around a bar, they wanna know the bartender, they wanna know the people who made the products that they're drinking.
- You can go tour and taste, and tour and taste, and spend your day at the Beverage District.
[upbeat music] - [Woman] Visit the Chatham Beverage District at 220 Lorax Lane in Pittsboro.
Hours of operation vary between venues so check the website at chathambeveragedistrict.com
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