BRUNSWICK COUNTY — The southeastern North Carolina craft beer market found a fan in Sumit Vohra, CEO and founder of Lonerider Brewing Co.
Vohra opened his fourth brewery in the state — he also runs two in Raleigh and one in Wake Forest — in late spring.
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Known for its award-winning IPAs, hefweizen, brown ales and stouts, Lonerider serves a full menu of beloved brands, from Sweet Josie to Shotgun Betty, among its dozen or so taps of beer and seltzer.
The 80-seat restaurant is located on the water, with an outdoor area that hosts live music. Lonerider’s menu is heavy on seafood, but also has elevated pub grub, from pretzels with beer cheese to burgers, chops and fish and chips.
“I mean, this is a beach community — we got to put a lot of seafood there,” Vohra told Port City Daily in February. “We’re going to make sure that most of the menu we curate for Oak Island [is] a lot of steamers, a lot of grilled and fried seafood, a lot of soups. She-crab soup was a big thing there so we want to bring that back.”
It also houses a distillery to make its own whiskeys and bourbon, such as one finished in a tequila cask or a pecan flavor known as Nut Cracker. It also makes a Southern Nog, a holiday season favorite and twist on egg nog.
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