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Three Charlotte rooms built for drinking at long tables, from Charlotte Magazine and Queen City Nerve. One is the brauhaus and biergarten Olde Mecklenburg opened on Yancey Road in 2014, one a three floor South End hall that put 190 North Carolina taps on its ground level, and one a picnic table beer garden at the Music Factory.
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The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery & Biergarten · Yancey Road
Charlotte Magazine walked the 8.5 acre Yancey Road site before it opened in 2014 and described an enormous brauhaus of chandeliers and long wooden tables reflecting the communal theme of German bierhalls, with a biergarten outside under umbrella covered tables and a sprawling greenspace. Owner John Marrino told the magazine he did not think there was another one like it in the southeastern United States. Queen City Nerve calls Olde Mecklenburg the city's oldest running brewery. Order the Copper, which led the opening lineup beside Captain Jack.
Charlotte Beer Garden · South End
Queen City Nerve's Justin LaFrancois sat down with owner Niall Hanley at the South End opening and came away with the numbers: 436 draft beers across 16,663 square feet and three floors, each with its own keg cooler behind the tap wall, and a first level given over entirely to North Carolina beer on 190 handles. The patio connects to that floor and the walls open onto it. There is a rooftop as well. Order something off the ground floor North Carolina wall.
VBGB Beer Hall and Garden/Restaurant · Music Factory
Charlotte Magazine's Annie Monjar puts VBGB at the Music Factory and sets the room up with numerous picnic tables in a German beer garden style. The taps run to 30 and change often, with most craft beers poured in four sizes from 12 ounces through 18 and 34 ounces to pitchers. Sit at the U shaped bar and a five inch frost rail running its length keeps the glass cold. Outside, the patio holds cornhole, ping pong and life size Jenga. Order a pitcher for the table.