NC breweries banding together to help after Helene hit [Video]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The small business community is banding together to help each other heal from the impacts of Hurricane Helene. 

Many popular places in Charlotte also have locations in Asheville, which are now dealing with serious storm damage. 

Burial Beer Company‘s taproom in Asheville was spared from damage but currently can’t operate, so, it’s turned its brewery into a safe space for people in need of food, supplies and power. 

“We’ve just been holding community cookouts there,” Alyssa Gavin, the taproom manager of Burial’s Charlotte location, explained. “It’s just free meals for the community to come, [and] we have generators and stuff.”

The Charlotte taproom has been collecting donations and shipping them up to Asheville ever since Helene hit the city. Boxes of diapers, toothbrushes, toilet paper and other essential items lined Burial’s taproom before …