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Little Heathen's Brewery coming soon to Spring Lake

By Faith Hatton, posted 2 months ago
Logo pulled from the Little Heathen's Facebook page

A new brewery is in the works and expected to open to the Spring Lake community in summer of 2025. 

Little Heathen’s Brewery, the newest addition to the Spring Lake area, is looking to create a space for the community.

The business, owned by retired Army Veteran Adam Terry, is located at 3266 Ray Road inside of the Anderson Creek Shopping Center. 

Terry, who began as an at home brewer, was working on this business before leaving the military in 2023. 

Little Heathen's Owner Adam Terry pictured in front of the newly installed fermenters.

 

 

“I retired from the military in December of 2023 and I wanted to open a brewery. I've wanted to do that since I started home brewing in 2009. My wife said I needed a hobby,” shared Terry. “I started because some buddies were doing it and really enjoyed it.” 

Before going into commercial brewing, Terry decided to take advantage of education opportunities offered by the military to learn the tricks of the trade from local brewers. 

“The military offers what’s called a Career Skills Program. It's an internship program where you can go work for a business and learn a trade or get some certification. I did that with a local brewer, so I knew how to home brew, but I've never worked on a commercial scale before so I knew it was going to be different. So, I did the CSP program with Gaston brewery.

I worked at his tap room down on Chicago Drive, he was a big help,” said Terry. 

While completing a six month internship, and working part time for Gaston Brewing Company, Terry was working to get things set up in the space in Spring Lake. Construction began and now, the dining room portion and attached brewery section are nearly complete. 

“I liked it being an open concept where the customer feels like part of the brewing process, they can still see all of the beer and all the equipment and how it’s made,” said Terry. 

With an open date scheduled for sometime in mid June 2025, all that’s left is to get brewing and add the details to the space. 

To open, the brewery will offer four beers all brewed on-site, including a blonde ale, a pale ale, an IPA and a Hazy IPA. The menu will also expand over time to include wine, seltzer and cider along with some classic cocktail options. 

Interior of Little Heathen's dining room. 

Terry shared that he took inspiration from his two daughters, ages nine and 10, for the businesses’ name and naming the in house brews. 

“I named it after the kids, and they love it too, they say ‘daddy named the brewery after us,’” shared Terry. “Our beers are going to be named Problem Child, Trouble Maker, my daughter is blonde so we’ll have one called Crazy Rae [a blonde ale], then we're still going back and forth on a couple others, trying to keep that Little Heathen’s theme.” 

Terry shared that to start, no food will be offered, but plans are in the works to incorporate food trucks on site in the back of the building. 

Information about hiring and a grand opening date are also expected to be announced in the coming weeks on the brewery's Facebook page here

“The overall intent of this place to be community focused, family friendly, dog friendly, you know, all the friendlies. Mainly just a place to hang out. There is not much on this side of town yet. You come home from post or from Fayetteville, drive through all that traffic, you don't want to turn around, drive right back to Fayetteville to get something to eat or something to drink. So, hopefully this fills that void in this area,” said Terry.

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