As I've been stuck on the east coast now for nearly five years, seeing your availability map light up on the eastern seaboard makes me immensely happy--and hopeful that you'll expand at least one more state up north, into Virginia, so that I may slip the surly bonds of DC and touch a bottle of fat tire.

Congrats guys!

Ahh, it's good to see great beer reaching all points in this country slowly so that those of us that appreciate great beer don't have to suffer, particularly when we travel or move away from an area of great local beer. Also, I hope to see New Belgium take its place as one of US's top three breweries!
Keep up the GREAT work!

Right on, for the last 10 years our return trips from CO., NM, and TX have been right out of the Smokey and the Bandit story line, load up as much Fat Tire that you can haul back East bound and Down, we were excited when an associate came back loaded up with cases of NB brew from Eastern TN, and knew the time was coming soon to be able to pick up the tire in North Cacalaci.........Welcome to the old north state....

robdawg

roll thru idaho also

I will still go out to CO to visit Dad (who turned me on to Fat Tire and others) but now I don't have to wait for a visit to enjoy one of my favorites. I have pestered the guy at my usual beverage store for several years to "let me know if it happens". He was on the phone the other day when I walked in and he smiled knowingly as I walked toward the coolers. As I perused the shelves, my heart stuttered as I caught a glimpse of something familiar. It triggered in me an emotional reaction that only occurs on rare occasions. My first impulse was to think that it was a cruel joke or that some foul opportunist had used similar labeling to mislead the less privileged. Then the bike came into focus and I said to myself "YES WE CAN". Thank you NEW BELGIUM! Your efforts at responsible human existence are remarkable and I am proud to be a customer of yours.
JM just West of Charlotte NC

Ever since I left FC in '96, I've relished going back to see old friends but also to drink the nectar of the gods. I can't wait until I can purchase some sweet NBBrews at my local spot in PA.

Great for New Belgium and North Carolina! Now come on down to the Sunshine State, we'd love to have you here! I really miss that 1554! Congrats!

Let's get GEORGIA lined up.......Brookhaven (Atlanta for specifics)

Look for us in Georgia in MAY 2009!
Ride on.

Great news on your expansion but you passed Ohio! More populous than either NC or GA.

Yes I agree, the Atlanta area is thirsty!!!!!!!!

Come to Kentucky! Lexington is a great college town, we need some Fat Tire so I can pretend its Ft. Collins.

BLESS YOU --- NC is a hellva lot closer the CO is to VA/DC.... eveyone one I know - now brings me bottles back -- they willl be happy to know -- I CAN GO GET A CAR FULL YEAHHHHHHH you have MADE my week!!! thanks much!!

CONGRATS to N.B. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It brought a happy tear to my eye to see a GORGEOUS, new and shiny FAT TIRE Painted Beer truck here in Raleigh!
(AWESOME job Mike!!!!)
I feel like Pee Wee in the play-house and the word of the day is "Fat TIre!"
Brew on mi amigo(a)s!!!!
BREW ON!!!!!

Nice to know I can finally get good beer when I go east to visit family!

I went to CSU for my first degree and currently go to UNCG for my second. On a trip to the pub house on campus I noticed some eerily familiar boxes behind the bar. Needless to say, my head went through the roof!!! I have always tried to explain what New Belgium Brewery has to offer in comparison to the beers here in Greensboro and what you represent. I am very excited that you are here and will be singing your praises in all the bars in town! Thank you New Belgium for your migration :).

Now I understand what "Manifest Destiny" really meant.

I am so excited! I have been waiting for Fat Tire and the rest of the New Belgium beers for at least a year and a half. That's when the beer store guy in Fort Collins said there were plans for an east coast invasion. Yay! I can't wait to get up to Charlotte and have some.

Oh yea its at my favorite custom bear hangout " City Beverage" in Winston-Salem shoutout to them, favorite home town grill " J Butlers" which includes free New Belgium glass and now at my local grocery store Harris Tetter long live Fat Tire : ) who hoooooooo

Just PLEASE come to Georgia! We have to go to TN to get our Fat Tire!!

The best thing in the world happened today. I walked into my local grocery store and saw the distinctive Fat Tire label amongst all the other brands. I have been waiting for this moment for 4 years since I left California and drove through AZ on purpose so I could bring some Fat Tire back to the East Coast with me. The distributor was in the store at the time and I thanked him for putting it on the shelves, although I think he thought I was a little crazy. Either way, thank you New Belgium for expanding to NC!!!!!!!!!!

I am in VA and thrilled to be able to drive only an hour and a half to get it now in North Carolina. Before I would have to drive to Tennessee to get the stuff. However I cannot complain to much since it is within driving distance. Before TN and NC I would only get it when I was out west. I could never quite get myself in the car to drive 12 hours one way to St. Louis to pick it up.

looking for the fat tire here in central fl. home of the fat tire spring break mtn bike fest......

Wooo Hooooo! When I walked into my Lowes Foods store in Cary, NC, the angels sang & the spot light appeared on the bottles of Fat Tire waiting for me. Many thanks for taking flight in the Tarheel state. Love your brewery, love the tour & love your beer!

We are waiting for Fat Tire here in AUBURN ALABAMA!!! Had it in Chicago at ESPN Zone and have been hooked ever since!! Cant Wait until May 11th to take the trip across the GA line to grab a case!!!

I did my undergrad in Fort Collins and am now in Raleigh. I was eating lunch the other day and saw the Fat Tire truck pull out of the parking lot at the pub I was at and just about knocked over the table in excitement.

Come to Michigan!!!!
Ann Arbor MI is in desperate need of your quality brew...please help. Quality microbrews are highly valued here but NB takes it too another level.

Please come to Pittsburgh! I go to the Midwest once a year and bring back cases to last the year! I love Fat Tire!

I second this

I second the request to bring it to the DC area. Then i won't have to do another Cannonball run...from a place along I-70, west of the Mississippi

Going to the Outer Banks in late June will be that much better now that I can expect to See Fat Tire - and I will definitely smuggle cases of it back to Virginia/DC. Please get to Old Dominion soon - been too long since I have lived within New Belgium's radar.

I was born and raised in Fort Collins and just moved to Columbus, Ohio in February 2009 - I desperately MISS my Sunshine!!! Any plans to break into the Ohio market????

Alabama needs you Fat Tire!!!! As Auburn just being rank #2 place to live -according to U.S. World Report- It would be a much better place to have you here!!! I miss Colorado!!! I miss Fat TIre!!!! Bring it ON!

My bro lives in Charleston SC. NB beers are in the grocery stores and tons of bars..... Get to South West Florida please.........