Unique local beers

I'd hit up a bottle shop. Depending on which neighborhood you're in Pop the Top, Salud and Tip Top would be good choices.

Your best bet is to check out a bottle shop, unless you have a particular brewery in mind to try to get packaged stuff right from there.

In no particular order, there's

• Kit's Trackside Crafts
• Pintville
• Pop the Top
• Craft Tasting Room and Growler Shop
• The Hop Shop
• Brawleys
• Bulldog Beer and Wine (2 locations)
• Common Market (multiple locations)
• Rhino Market (multiple locations)

You can also find (generally) a fair selection at some Harris Teeters and 201 Central. Also, Total Wine (but check dates on things, especially hops, because they don't often move quickly)

Dude are you in luck. There’s a ton of local breweries and they all do small batch stuff. Also, all super close to eachother. You could do the loso area by old mecklenburg brewery, the south end area up and down the rail trail, or the noda/plaza midwood side. I don’t think you can go wrong going to any particular brewery or a bottle shop like people suggested. Another good bet is to list some styles you love and I’m sure everyone here will recommend their favorite that’s currently on tap

Craft Growler Shop in Southend is one of my favorite spots. Awesome tap selection with lots of local stuff on draft plus a really nice bottle/can selection too.

Wooden Robot.

Lots of options, and depending on your particular taste in style the recommendation might change. Having said that...Salud is the best overall answer. Downstairs is a bottle shop with guest taps, and upstairs is a chill bar area with food and their own wonderful beers. Once you are there, pull up your map and search for nearby beer, as their are lots of options within walking distance: Protagonist, Wooden Robot, Heist, Divine Barrel

Noda brewery has quite a few that are not shipped out, I think most breweries do though, just go over to plaza midwood area and you can go to resident culture, legion, bold missy, noda and birdsong all within a fairly short radius of each other, probably at least 1 or two more in that area im forgetting.

Free Range and Salud, both in NoDa, are good. The Hop Shop in Plaza Midwood is a nice bottle shop/tap room and they usually have some good regional stuff on tap.

Is there a particular style you're into?

I highly recommend making the short trip to Concord and checking out High Branch Brewing. Yet to have a bad beer from them

Blue Blaze brewery is under the radar with a mix of classic US craft IPAs and solid German styles (Kolsch, Maibock, etc). For experience though, if you do like German style beers, visit OMB's biergarten on a decent weather.

Legion, Wooden Robot, Brewers at 4001 Yancey are the first that come to my mind. Legion & Wooden Robot are my favorite Charlotte breweries, they both have great food, and solid beers with a bit of variety in styles available. Brewers is a Sixpoint/Southern Tier/Victory collaboration so they’ll have taps of stuff you can get nationwide but also some more interesting varieties (the coffee version and the 12.5% rum barrel version of Pumking are both fantastic!) that you can’t, and better yet they have a subset of collaboration beers that are only available in Charlotte. All three (and pretty much any other brewery I’ve been to) have an option to get flights so you can sample across their spectrum.

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High Branch, Wooden Robot, and D9.

I like how you asked for local beers sold only on tap, and people said "go to a bottle shop".

NoDa Brewery does very limited runs of plenty of stuff, and they're very tasty. Be aware they have two shops, the main brewery, and the old brewery, called the OG that's primarily a small batch/sour room. I would go there if you wanna try their weird stuff.

That's my recommendation :)