Thousands come out for the Beer and Wine Festival

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Whether you sip your wine or chug your beer, there was plenty to drink at the 16th annual Carousel Center Beer and Wine Festival.

Lighthouse Beer and Wine presents the event and also welcomes thousands of people for a day full of drinking. Different booths showcase dozes of brewers from across the country and many from our state of North Carolina. However, the focus of this event is to raise money for charity to help aid abused and neglected youth.

“I look back at it. I’m doing a small part of what the people who work for the carousel center. They’re doing the heavy lifting. We’re doing, you know, we’re putting on an event like this. We’re having a good time, but really the ones who do it and work with the company on a day to day basis, they’re the ones really doing the hard work,” Jason Adams, the Beer and Wine Festival Executive Director, says.

Over 120 breweries and wineries attend the event. The festival hopes for its largest donation to the Carousel Center in the event’s history.