NC Craft Brewers Conference & Trade Expo 2026
NC Craft Brewers Conference & Trade Expo (NCCBC)
The NC Craft Brewers Conference + Trade Expo, usually shortened to NCCBC, is the annual industry conference and trade show organised by the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild. It brings together craft brewing professionals from across the Southeast for three days of education, networking, social events and a supplier trade expo covering brewing equipment, ingredients and services. The Guild describes it as the Southeast's premier craft brewers event and the region's largest craft beer industry trade show.
Confirmed 2026 edition (13th annual)
The official conference site states "NCCBC November 15-17, 2026, Winston-Salem, NC" and "NOV 15-17, 2026, Sunday, November 15 - Tuesday, November 17". The 2026 edition is the 13th annual NCCBC and returns to Winston-Salem.
- Dates: 15-17 November 2026 (Sunday to Tuesday), three days.
- Venue: Benton Convention Center, 301 West 5th Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, United States.
- Registration: open, with early-bird pricing offered through 2 October 2026.
- Published Guild-member brewery pricing: All Access Pass USD 195; single-day pass Tuesday or Sunday USD 85; single-day pass Monday USD 95. Other pricing tiers and add-ons are listed on the registration page.
- Programme: conference sessions, workshops, a keynote speaker, the trade show and expo, and travel and hotel information under Stay / Prepare Your Visit.
The official site does not publish a single overall daily opening and closing time, so no start or end time is recorded here. The Schedule page still carries an older "12th annual" heading and a health notice from a previous edition; the homepage masthead and the dated registration copy are the current sources for the 2026 dates and the 13th-edition count. The edition numbering is consistent with the Guild's earlier news item about the 5th annual conference in 2018.
Sources and record history
The previous CMS websiteUrl pointed to a 2018 Guild news post on ncbeer.org announcing tickets for the 5th annual NCCBC in downtown Winston-Salem; that page gave no exact dates and its "2026" footer is only an automatically generated copyright year, not an edition date. The Guild's main ncbeer.org domain now redirects to a MemberLeap member login, but the conference has its own live official site, which is now used as the websiteUrl for this record. The dates and venue above are taken from that official conference site; no 2027 edition dates have been announced, so none are recorded.
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Venue Map and Hotels Around
Winston-Salem - Benton Convention Center, North Carolina, United States