The craft-beer-Instagram-loving besties behind #InstaBeerUpCLT are celebrating it’s one-year birthday next Thursday at Unknown Brewing Company in South End, and guess what, you’re invited!

Add #InstaBeerUpCLT Founders Amy Herman and Corri Smith to the list of female entrepreneurs weaving awesome into the fabric of our community. Looking back over the past year, they couldn’t be more surprised at the success of their social, networking event that meets monthly at locally owned craft beer spots. It all began as a desire to connect with more of their Instagram friends in real life and has grown 10x larger in just one year, turning into the most buzzed about event of its kind in the city.

To them, the event is so simple, it’s humorous. What has now given them local celeb status, as the InstaBeerUpCLT girls, is in essence just a hashtag and a name that now commonly overshadows their successful entrepreneur careers. Amy is an Artist & Founder of Vintage Charlotte Pop Up & Vintage Rentals Markets and Corri is Founder of Black Wednesday Social Co., a social media and marketing company.

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