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Largest NC Brewery To Close Its Doors

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Big beer companies are starting to feel the pressure of a rising thirst for craft beer. There are more than and brewpubs in North Carolina, but MillerCoors the plant in Eden, North Carolina in September of next year.  

The brewery is the state's biggest and produced 7.1 million barrels last year. It is and the closure means the elimination of 520 jobs. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with Triad Business Journal reporter about the impact of the brewery's closure on the local community and the future of the beer industry.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.