BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Black Mountain Brewing, a local brewery, has taken to social media in recent weeks with a claim that the Black Mountain Town Building Inspector had unjustly shut down the top deck of the brewery. Yesterday, Black Mountain officials responded to BMB’s claims in a press release. Here’s what’s going on.
On Tuesday, Nov. 25, BMB posted an update to their Facebook page captioned “URGENT: Black Mountain Brewing Needs Your Help.”
In the post, the brewery wrote that they are facing “the biggest threat to our existence” after Town Building Inspector Rick Denise Burton shut down the top deck of the building over code violations on Labor Day weekend. According to BMB, the deck was “fully permitted, engineered, approved and safe,” and its removal cut the capacity of the brewery from 89 to 25 people…