Local breweries team up to raise money for kids needing life-saving care

WRAL News visits a local beer competition that raised money to help kids who need life-saving treatment and shows where a special WRAL beer landed in the rankings.
Posted 9/14/2025, 10:53:43 PM Updated 9/14/2025, 11:00:05 PM

THAT FITS BOTH YOUR

>> CHILDREN IN NEED OF MEDICAL

CARE ARE NOW ONE STEP CLOSER.

THANKS TO MANY OF YOU WHO

ATTENDED SATURDAY'S 10TH ANNUAL

HOPS FOR HOPE IN

NORTH HILLS. THE EVENT'S YEARS

IT IS PAIRED UP WITH LOCAL

BREWERIES TO RAISE MILLIONS OF

DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT JUST LIKE

CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES

OUT FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

THE BUREAU'S CLIP CHRIS

MICHAELS WAS AT THE EVENT AND

JURORS MORE ABOUT THE

COLLABORATION WITH FAINTING

GO TO BREWING FOR THIS YEAR'S

WEATHER ALERT. DAY BEER.

>> I THINK WE ALL WANT TO BE A

PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN

OURSELVES. THAT'S THE MISSION

BEHIND HOPS FOR HOPE. DECADE

LONG TRADITION. YOU NEED TO

THE TRIANGLE RAISING MONEY IN

THE NAME OF TREATING CHILD

ILLNESS 10 BY 10, THE BEER

FLOWS AND SO DOES THE ENERGY

ABOUT ENERGY. IT'S ABOUT

EXCITEMENT. IT'S ABOUT FUN.

AND IT'S ABOUT COMMUNITY PAT

NELLY'S, THE PRESIDENT AND CEO

OF CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE,

A LOCAL NONPROFIT THAT IS FOR

MORE THAN 2500 CHILDREN AND

THEIR FAMILIES FOR CRUCIAL

MEDICAL TREATMENTS BECAUSE OF

HOPS FOR HOPE. IT IS HARD FOR

ME TO IMAGINE A MORE IMPORTANT

PURPOSE, THEN CHANGING AND

SAVING THE LIFE OF A CHILD, A

PURPOSE THAT CONVINCED THE

HOLLINS TO DRIVE FROM HOLLY

SPRINGS TO NORTH HILLS

SATURDAY. IT'S BEEN A GREAT DAY

TO BE WITH THE FAMILY. WE'VE

ENJOYED A LOT OF GREAT BEERS.

AND AGAIN, LIKE SHE SAID, IT'S

BEEN ALL WONDERFUL AFTERNOON

TO CELEBRATE.

HELPED TO HIS LIFE WE GOT TO

EXPERIENCE THE JURY FROM BEHIND

THE CAT FANNING GO BREWING

COMPANY FROM FUQUAY-VARINA

BREWED A WRAL THEMED WEATHER

ALERT. DAY BEER SPECIFICALLY

FOR HOPS FOR HOPE HAS NOTES

OF TROPICAL FRUIT AND THEN

WE'LL ADD FOR THE PIER IS.

>> ORANGE PINEAPPLE, WHILE THE

PASSION FOR KEY LIME AND CHERRY

EVEN BETTER AFTER YOU CAST YOUR

VOTE, YOU GOT TO PET A GOAT.

NOT A THING TO DO. THE FEELING

SHARED AMONG HUNDREDS THAT IT

ENDED SATURDAY, WHETHER IT CAME

FROM GOATS, MUSIC, BEER OR

COMMUNITY TRULY WAS THE

GREATEST OF ALL TIME IN

RALEIGH, CHRISMAN, CULLS, WRAL,

NEWS.

>> AND WEATHER ALERT. DAY ONE

0ND PLACE IN THE PEOPLE'S

CHOICE. CATEGORY SATURDAY.

WE'RE STILL WAITING TO LEARN