Local Time Brewing in Lillington announces grand opening Sat., Aug. 16

Your passport to flavor is ready. At noon, Aug. 16 on West Ivey Street, Local Time Brewing throws open its doors for a journey that spans continents, cultures, and time zones, one pint at a time.

Fuel up for your travels with Riverside’s pizza at 1 p.m., then keep your adventure going with B’Wiched Sandwiches from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. As you explore, let the smooth notes of Richard Boston set the soundtrack for your expedition.

Start your trip with our grand opening special: $5 Mexican Lager drafts or choose New Zealand as your first stop. Where you start does not matter. It is the return trip to Local Time Brewing that delights the taste buds for a portal into a different time and place.

On grand opening night, enjoy the golden glow of Vienna, where the Schonbrunn Vienna Lager slows the pace to Central European Time. Malty, smooth, and steeped in history, it’s the taste of lingering conversations in candlelit cafés, where hours melt away as easily as the foam on your glass.

On your next Local Time Brewing visit, leap ahead to Phuket, Thailand, and watch the sun sink into the Andaman Sea. The Phuket Sunset Thai Rice Lager carries the gentle fragrance of jasmine rice, pulling you into Indochina Time, where days are measured not by clocks but by the deepening orange of the sky and the quiet lap of the tide.

Ride the clock backward to the wild Pacific Northwest on your third visit. The Columbia River West-Coast Style IPA bursts with whole flower hops, tasting of pine forests and briny air. In Pacific Standard Time, time is as much about the rhythm of the river as it is about the minutes on a watch, bold, fresh, and alive.

Keep moving east until you find yourself far ahead in New Zealand, where tomorrow begins. The Tasman NZ Hazy IPA greets you with a citrus-heavy brightness that feels like the first light spilling over coastal cliffs. In New Zealand Standard Time, every sip is a sunrise, and the day is always full of possibility.

On the fifth visit, step back into the Americas with a stop in Puebla, Mexico. The Puebla Mexican Lager, brewed with heritage Tuxpeño corn, brings you into Central Standard Time, where the afternoon heat eases under shaded plazas, and life hums at its own unhurried rhythm, a perfect union of place, people, and tradition.

From there, follow the sun west to O‘ahu, Hawaii, and let the Island Time Shandy dissolve the very idea of deadlines. Passion fruit, orange, and guava weave a tropical haze in Hawaii Standard Time, where the only clock that matters is the one that measures wave sets rolling into shore.

Finally, circle back to Bavaria along the Danube River, where the Danube Hefeweizen pours a hazy gold. Notes of banana, clove, and basmati rice drift over the water as riverboats slide by. Here, in Central European Time, you don’t watch the hours pass, you savor them, one sip at a time.

From the first taste to the last, Local Time Brewing’s beers don’t just pour flavor, they pour you into a place, a moment, and a time zone all your own.

Aug. 14, 2025

Stephanie M. Sellers