Raleigh–Durham, NC
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Four Triangle rooms and yards that local coverage frames as beer gardens, from a three story hall on Glenwood South to a Durham bakery that added a biergarten menu and a one acre yard off Automotive Way. Drawn from INDY Week, WRAL and Raleigh Magazine.
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Raleigh Beer Garden · Glenwood South
WRAL walked the three floors the week this Glenwood South room opened, counting 366 individual taps, 144 of them North Carolina beers downstairs and 222 from around the world upstairs, with a reassembled oak tree rising through the front room and bar tops cut from oaks that stood on the site. A rooftop bar grows the herbs used in its cocktails. INDY Week credits Hibernian owner Niall Hanley with the place. Order a North Carolina pour downstairs and pizza from the kitchen, open from 11 a.m. to close.
Guglhupf Bakery · Durham
Claudia Kemmet-Cooper opened this Durham bakery and cafe in 1998, and INDY Week covered the biergarten menu and the custom steel and wood bar she added on the twentieth anniversary, with twelve German and local beers on tap. The brotzeit board runs from mid afternoon until late with meats, cheeses, house pates and bratwurst and knackwurst. Raleigh Magazine points to the spacious garden patio and to southwestern German cooking. Order the brotzeit board with a German draft under the trees.
Tap Yard Raleigh · Mordecai
Zack Medford opened this one acre yard off Automotive Way in 2023, and WRAL describes free yard games, a rotating schedule of food trucks and a 5,000 square foot building holding two full bars with sixteen craft beers on tap plus an expansive zero alcohol list. Raleigh Magazine reported the plan as a neighborhood bar, beer garden and community space with live music and an artisan market. Order a craft draft and eat from whichever truck is parked. Dogs get their own chicken broth beer.
Brier Creek Beer Garden · Brier Creek
INDY Week counted fifty two taps here, roughly three quarters of them given to North Carolina breweries, and a bartender who walks a table through stouts, ciders and IPAs by the sample. The same 2016 review praises a weekend brunch duck and waffles, a quarter bird seared over two crunchy waffles under house made blueberry compote. WRAL's Triangle food column covered the opening that spring. Order whatever North Carolina stout is pouring and ask for a sample first, the way the review did. The garden's own list rotates daily.