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NC businesses win Good Food Awards

The Good Food Awards, which honor "tasty, authentic, and responsibly produced" food and beverages, announced its winners at a ceremony Friday in San Francisco.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Several North Carolina businesses were honored at the 2020 Good Food Awards.

The Good Food Awards, which honor “tasty, authentic, and responsibly produced” food and beverages, announced its winners at a ceremony Friday in San Francisco.

Two downtown Raleigh chocolatiers were honored. Escazu chocolates won an award for its 70 percent Single Origin chocolate, while Videri Chocolate won for its Orange Basil Ganache.

Other North Carolina Good Food Award Winners:

  • Fera’wyn’s Artisan Chocolates in Holly Springs for its Caramel Macchiato and Limoncello chocolates
  • Mrs. Ruth's Jams in Apex for its Belgian Chocolate Strawberry Jam
  • Fiddlehead Farm in Pittsboro for its Strawberry and Honeysuckle Jelly
  • The Accidental Baker in Hillsborough for its Red Pepper Firecracker and Sea Salt Flatbread Crackers
  • Top of the Hill Distillery in Chapel Hill's Organic Carolina Straight Wheat Whiskey
  • French Broad Chocolates in Asheville for its Cinnamon Cashew Caramel
Fullsteam Brewery ​​​​​​​was honored for its Farm's Edge: Barrel-Aged Ava, a collaboration with Illinois' Scratch Brewing.

This is the seventh Good Food Award win for Fullsteam, making it the one of the most-awarded breweries in the Good Food Awards' history. Fullsteam is the only North Carolina brewery to win a Good Food Award.

Farm's Edge was brewed with all North Carolina ingredients including wild grape leaves collected by Scratch’s team while traveling to Durham and North Carolina elderflower foraged by both breweries.

The beer rested for more than a year, starting in stainless tanks before being moved to red wine barrels.

"This beer was a labor of love … a love for the land and for the brewing process,” Fullsteam Chief Executive Optimist Sean Lilly Wilson said “I’m deeply grateful to Marika, Aaron and David (of Scratch) for collaborating with us. I’m especially proud of how this beer combines our love of foraging with our passion to support North Carolina farmers and maltsters.”

On Saturday, Feb. 1, Fullsteam will tap its final keg of Farm's Edge. From 2 p.m to 5 p.m. that day, the brewery will host a mini-marketplace featuring other North Carolina Good Food Award winners and finalists.

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