- Historically, wood-fired,
whole hog barbecue
that's what's defined
Eastern North Carolina.
- If you come to Pitt County
or Eastern North Carolina
you have to have barbecue.
And that's just the main staple.
- The brewing
scene in Greenville
and Pitt County is fairly new.
And it's fun to see the
growth of beer in Greenville
and what it's meant
to the social scene.
- [Announcer] As Pitt
County leaders surveyed
their culinary state of affairs,
they noticed the popularity
of something old
and something new,
a mix of barbecue and brew.
And cooked up a plan
to tie it all together.
- The Pitt County
Brew and 'Cue Trail
is a way to connect all of our
legendary barbecue restaurants
as well as our craft breweries.
Three of which are new
in the last two years.
[glasses clink]
There are six barbecue
restaurants on the trail.
There's Skylight Inn,
Bum's Restaurant,
Parker's Barbecue,
Sam Jones Barbecue,
Moore's Old Tyme
Barbecue, and then
there is also B's Barbecue.
[glasses clink]
There are four craft breweries,
The Duck-Rabbit Craft
Brewery in Farmville.
And then there are three
in uptown Greenville,
there's Trollingwood
Taproom and Brewery,
Uptown Brewing Company, and then
Pitt Street Brewing Company.
Some people do it really quickly
and then others
stretch it out over
an extended period of
time, just based on time
and what their stomach
can allow for. [laughs]
- You have to visit all
the stops, like a trail,
and once you've completed it,
everywhere you go you get
your passpork stamped.
- [Announcer] Yep,
that's passpork with a K.
It includes a map and
information about each stop
on the trail and a
place to get a stamp,
proof of a completed visit.
- You show up, you try
some of the cuisine,
some items on the menu,
they stamp your passpork,
you decide where
you're going next.
- The trail is a
wonderful thing.
We have a lot of people
that come from everywhere
talking about the trail.
When people come in and
ask for the passporks,
they are really excited.
- It's a good time
when they come in
and they're looking for a
stamp for their passpork.
Then we know that
they've been around,
they're interested
in what we have,
and they're gonna
have some stories
that they're gonna share.
- When you're finished you come
back to the visitor's center
in uptown Greenville and
you get your final stamp
and then you can get a tee shirt
or a pint glass
to say you did it.
- It's definitely a
feeling of accomplishment
that comes with
competing the passpork.
After you go to your
first three or four,
you think, oh boy, I'm really
making my way through this.
And then you look
down and you realize
I've still got six or
seven places to go.
So, it was really a
sense of accomplishment
to get all the way
through it at the end
and look back at
all those stamps
and say, wow, I've been to
every one of these locations.
- Barbecue and beer
is a perfect pairing,
particularly with the
vinegar based sauce
that we use in Pitt County,
and malt in the beer just
makes a great marriage.
- Barbecue and
beer goes together.
And there's so many beers,
especially your craft beers,
that complement smoked meat.
- There's a lot of history,
a lot of main
staple on the trial.
It is good to know that
we're all in good company.
- It's not about one
particular star of the show,
it's about the whole
community, the whole region
of Eastern North Carolina.
We got involved with
the passpork program,
because we felt like it
would boost our community.
And that's just what we do,
we want to boast
of our hometown.
- For more information
about the Greenville
Brew and 'Cue Trail go
to visitgreenvillenc.com
and look under things to do.
