{"id":7460,"date":"2018-05-01T12:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T12:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2018-05-09T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:42:40","slug":"local-brewers-win-peoples-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2018\/05\/local-brewers-win-peoples-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Brewers Win People&#8217;s Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">The results are in for Nash Community College&#8217;s &#8220;Best New Brew Contest&#8221;\u00a0held at the annual Blue Fest. Community members voted for their favorite craft beer brew in Professional and student\/Home Brewer categories.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>The Best New Brew Contest promotes the NCC Brewing, Distillation and Fermentation program while providing an opportunity for student, home and professional brewers to showcase their best new creation. The people&#8217;s choice event allowed Blue Fest attendees to provide input on the brewers&#8217; craft beer by voting for their choice of taste. Student brewers received real-world feedback on the brews they developed in the program. And, student beer was compared and contrasted with brews made both recreationally and professionally.<span style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Winners,\u00a0Professional Category:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Place &#8211; Bull Durham Beer Company<br \/>\nSecond Place &#8211; TBC<br \/>\nThird Place &#8211; HopFly\u00a0Brewing Company<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-2.jpg 1342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><i>Ryan Trecartin,\u00a0Bull Durham Beer Company, left with NCC President Dr. Bill Carver<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Winners,\u00a0Student\/Home Brewer Category:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">First Place &#8211; Marshmallow Brown Ale (Randy Griffin)<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Second Place &#8211; The Juice is Loose (Randy Griffin)<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\">Third Place &#8211; Holly&#8217;s Golden (Holly Carmichael)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5732-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5732-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5732-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5732-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5732-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><i>Randy Griffin, NCC Brewing, Distillation and Fermentation student with NCC President Dr. Bill Carver<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5738-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5738-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5738-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5738-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5738-768x629.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><i>NCC Board Chair, Paul Jaber (left) and NCC President Dr. Bill Carver (right) with 2018 Best New Brew winners.<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Winners were awarded custom-machined hardwood medallions designed by the NCC Computer-Integrated Machining Department in a ceremony held Saturday, April 28 at NCC&#8217;s Rocky Mount Mills 360\u00b0\u00a0Brewer Production Lab.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in for Nash Community College&#8217;s &#8220;Best New Brew Contest&#8221;\u00a0held at the annual Blue Fest. Community members voted for their favorite craft beer brew in Professional and student\/Home&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2018\/05\/local-brewers-win-peoples-choice-awards\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}