What do you wonder about North Carolina? Help us find and investigate stories that matter to you. There once was a vale of peace and beauty in the North Carolina foothills, the story goes, where crops ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A taste of Appalachia is coming to the Queen City. Morganton-based Fonta Flora Brewery is set to open its doors at Optimist Hall at 3 p.m. Thursday. Known for its emphasis on ...

If you’ve ever met Todd Boera, co-owner and brewer at Fonta Flora in Morganton, you probably remember his foot-long beard. Fittingly the former Catawba Brewing Co. head brewer launched his new venture ...

Tucked into a corner building on the edge of downtown Morganton, North Carolina sits Fonta Flora Brewery. The brewery focuses on local agricultural ingredients in its beer, even foraging for them if ...

BUYING THE FARM: Fonta Flora brewmaster and co-founder Todd Boera's background in sustainable agriculture informed the brewery’s recent expansion to a historic farm in the Lake James area. “It feels ...

I consider the depths of my beer knowledge to run fairly deep, but a few months back when I saw a local brewery was releasing a Kvass I had to do a double take. A what? What the heck is that? The ...

There once was a vale of peace and beauty in the North Carolina foothills, the story goes, where crops grew tall and neighbors both black and white lived in harmony. Even its name sounded lush: Fonta ...