USA, NC: Blue Blaze Brewing Co. to open a new brewery in northwest Charlotte

Blue Blaze Brewing Co. is planning to open a microbrewery in Charlotte’s northwest side, Charlotte Observer reported on July 7.

Property records show the beer-makers are eyeing the lower portion of the historic building at 528 S. Turner, right off State Street in Charlotte.

Blue Blaze Brewing is headed by co-founders and brewers Craig Nunn and Sven Giersmann. Its head brewer is Steve Turner, an instructor of fermentation science and technology at Colorado State University.

“…they’ve created this environment where people can interact where they might not have otherwise,” Nunn said in the interview.

The brewery will be in a part of town near Johnson C. Smith University that has experienced a slowdown of business activity over the years. But revitalization efforts, like a recent grant from the Knight Foundation, aim to turn the Charlotte’s northwest side into a bustling residential and commercial district that connects directly to uptown Charlotte.

08 July, 2015