Mooresville’s Hoptown Brewing wins bronze medal at 2024 World Beer Cup

Posted on by Mike Fuhrman
Pictured fare Hoptown Brewing owners Scott and Sandy Plemmons.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Mooresville-based Hoptown Brewing Co. won the Bronze Medal for its locally sourced Sweet Wings Honey Wheat Ale during the 2024 World Beer Cup.

Nearly 2,100 breweries from 50 countries participated in the most prestigious beer competition in the world. 

Hoptown, which was one of only eight North Carolina breweries to place at the World Beer Cup, competed against more than 65 breweries from around the world in the honey beer category.

Founder Scott Plemmons says what makes the win especially sweet is its local flavor.

“Sweet Wings is truly North Carolina at its best,” he explained. “It’s an easy-drinking, slightly sweet, wheat ale that is sourced from local ingredients, supporting fellow local businesses right in our backyard.”

Kyle McLaughlin is the head brewer at Hoptown Brewing.

Plemmons started brewing beer in 2017 under the name Hootenanny Brewing Company.

He and his wife Sandy founded Hoptown in March of 2021, opening their brewery and taproom on the heels of the pandemic. Head Brewer Kyle McLaughlin joined the team in 2022. 

McLaughlin created the award-winning recipe, starting with honey from Sweet Wings Honey Bee Farm in Mooresville, malt from Carolina Malt House in Cleveland, and water from the Catawba River.

This award winning-combination was an instant hit with patrons in the taproom. Sweet Wings also won a gold medal in the 2023 NC Brewer’s Cup Competition, the largest craft beer competition in the Southeast.

Sweet Wings is available at Hoptown’s tap room in Mooresville, and at select Total Wine and Lowe’s Foods locations and more than 50 restaurants and bottle shops in the Charlotte area.

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Hoptown has contributed more than $50,000 to local nonprofit organizations as part of its Sip It Forward give back program. For more information, visit Hoptownbrewing.com.