USA | One of Germany’s oldest breweries is to establish a brewing base in Charlotte Gilde (German for "Guild") fell on hard times after it was bought by Belgium’s Interbrew in 2003 AB-InBev disposed of Gilde to TCB Group in 2016 for an undisclosed sum By this stage its beer output had dropped to 150,000 hl TCB Group is a privately-owned group of breweries with a subsidiary in France It claims to be Europe’s major producer of private label beers It has a brewing capacity of 10.5 million hl Its German beer output was estimated at 4.7 million hl in 2018 making it the seventh largest brewing group in Germany TCB announced plans to start producing beer in Charlotte and selling it across the US market in June 2019 According to the website charlotteobserver.com Gilde first introduced itself to Charlotte during the South End Hops Fest which also happened to be the company’s first ever appearance at a US beer festival Gilde is working with local Charlotte distributor Adams Beverages to sell their cans in several local grocery chains within the coming months Gilde will open a microbrewery and taproom in Charlotte The facility will brew small batches of authentic German-style pilsners and hefeweizens to serve in the tap room while continuing to import canned and bottled beer from Germany There are currently about 260 craft breweries in North Carolina There are more than 30 craft breweries in Asheville and nearly 50 in the Charlotte area alone Gilde also let it be known that within the next three years it hopes to build a flagship brewery plus a German beergarden and restaurant in Charlotte The brewery shall have a capacity of up to 580,000 hl per year there are two new breweries (New Belgium and Sierra Nevada) which are running at far less than their currently-installed capacity They could easily produce what Gilde needs both breweries have plenty of room to add more tanks If Gilde were to talk to New Belgium or Sierra Nevada I fully expect that its needs will be accommodated the first containers with Gilde beer will arrive in North Carolina TCB’s Managing Director Mike Gärtner told Brauwelt International Should consumers take to Gilde in a major way Mr Gärtner said: “That is all still up in the air.” Newsletter archive and information Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page HONG KONG: Torbjorn Pedersen with a map in Hong Kong in 2020 Maxime Champigneulle/For The Washington Post SRI LANKA: Pedersen on a train in Sri Lanka in May NEW ZEALAND: Pedersen on a New Zealand beach last year Torbjorn Pedersen packed a suitcase with a few necessities in 2013 - shirts a first-aid kit and a laptop - excited to begin a historic journey Pedersen hoped to become perhaps the first person to visit all 195 countries without flying He figured he would return home to Copenhagen in four years as a record holder But Pedersen recently walked off a boat in Denmark having completed his objective six years later than anticipated and feeling fortunate to be alive Pedersen said he ventured about 260,000 miles via cars said he encountered hundreds of challenges but he finished with a reformed confidence in himself and in the world "I feel well above my age coming out of this," Pedersen said "This could be 50 years of life experience crammed down to 10 years." Pedersen read an article about tourists who had visited every one of the world's countries Pedersen had built a career shipping products and planning construction projects worldwide so he started to plot a route that would take him around the world without flying Pedersen said he received funding from a Denmark geothermal energy company that took an interest in his endeavor and he withdrew thousands of dollars from his savings account and took out loans he began his travels by riding a train from Denmark to Germany He said he spent at least 24 hours in every country where he often rented a bed in a dormitory or a hostel or found a host on the app Couchsurfing Traveling Europe was the easiest part of his voyage Pedersen encountered his first hurdle when he said he couldn't find a boat to take him from Norway to the Faroe Islands in December 2013 "That kind of stuff seemed hard at the time," Pedersen said "But that's child's play compared to what I had coming." he rode a boat in poor conditions from Iceland past icebergs during a storm Before the boat arrived in Canada 12 days later he was diagnosed with cerebral malaria at a Ghana clinic He said he believed he was infected by the parasite about two weeks earlier in Liberia where he said he slept outside a gas station Pedersen said he hallucinated and temporarily lost his ability to perform simple tasks But other moments reminded Pedersen why he started his voyage he sat on the back of a truck with about 50 people as they traveled on a dirt road a woman began banging a water bottle against her hand and singing everyone on the truck was singing together Pedersen grappled with thoughts of quitting around that time He was exhausted and lonely and felt people weren't taking his mission seriously His perseverance only diminished in January 2016 when he was traveling through an African jungle at night and encountered a group of men drinking and dancing to loud music three men pointed guns at him and asked what he was doing Pedersen thought he was seconds from dying a man fell asleep while driving him and seven others in Cameroon The car started drifting off a dirt road and approaching a cliff when Pedersen said he jumped from his seat and grabbed the wheel the kindness of other people kept Pedersen motivated While Pedersen said his visa requests to some countries were denied for months he found taxi drivers or mutual friends who were residents of those countries to drive him there Pedersen visited South Sudan in November 2016 almost three years into the country's years-long civil war He was terrified as he watched buses being shot at and passengers attacked But it wasn't long before the pendulum swung the other way he made one of his best life memories when he proposed to his visiting girlfriend As he chronicled his travels on social media people offered to host him and buy him beer when he visited their countries Another of Pedersen's favorite memories came in October 2019 in the Solomon Islands and a resident asked him whether he had any movies on his laptop about 80 people were sitting around his computer watching "The Thin Red Line." Pedersen said he noticed commonalities among people worldwide Everyone was discussing "Game of Thrones" when it aired in the 2010s People played soccer and fiddled with fidget spinners and shared their opinions on Donald Trump in almost every country he arrived in Hong Kong with nine more countries to visit Then the coronavirus pandemic struck and suspended international travel Pedersen said he was able to get a job at a church that provided him housing "There's no legit answer why I didn't quit," Pedersen said After living in Hong Kong for nearly two years he and his fiancée got married in Vanuatu among palm leaf decorations and hearts etched into the sand he began a two-month sail across multiple oceans to Denmark friends and social media followers - greeted Pedersen on Denmark's eastern coast on July 26 He was timid a decade ago but now hopes to give speaking engagements about his voyage across the world and write a book he just wants to go somewhere quiet where he can process what he learned over the past decade Pedersen said the mundanity of people's lives has stuck with him "People are just being people everywhere," he said Saturday’s Mad Collab Block Party in Hagåtña brought together more than 70 local businesses and artists in celebration with hundreds of attendees It was all about the wonders of Artificial Intelligence in the palm of your hand All of the latest features in Samsung's Galaxy AI were showcased at a GTA-sponsored event Thursday University of Guam students and alumni presented original research at the 19th annual International Conference on Business Economics & Information Technology (ICBEIT) hosted by the University of Guam School of Business and Public Administration in Mactan Newtown Poll results are published every Monday in The Guam Daily Post Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: