After 10 years in its current West Charlotte home, Blew Blaze Brewing has announced it will close in March.
“We very much wish that our place here could have continued to be available to us into the future,” managing partner Craig Nunn wrote Saturday afternoon in a letter to customers. “Our sincerest hope is that we can find a solution and a path forward in a new location and temporarily contract brew with one of our brewery friends in town.
“The search for these solutions to our challenges has and will continue in earnest. However, for now, we must unfortunately part ways from our current taproom.”
In October 2022, The Charlotte Observer reported about how Blue Blaze was fighting to keep from being evicted after facing a potential rent increase of 376% from its landlord, Atlanta-based Portman Holdings. Portman began working that year on a 27-acre mixed-use development of the historic Savona Mill, which includes the brewery site.
[READ MORE: West Charlotte brewery locked in eviction battle with its out-of-state landlord.]