How do you get into Hidden Ships Distillery?
We have not confirmed it. Hidden Ships Distillery is in the directory because it described as hidden, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Hidden Ships Distillery
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Old Fashioned, Boulevardier, and Ward Eight are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Hidden Ships Distillery sits
Hidden Ships Distillery is in Surf City, North Carolina, in Pender County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Surf City. If you know another, tell us.
North Carolina holds 42 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our North Carolina speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in North Carolina
North Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1909, eleven years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, North Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in North Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in North Carolina
Searching the Library of Congress run of North Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from North Carolina:
- Roanoke Rapids herald, September 30, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, June 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, May 8, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, March 25, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Fri-Sat: 12 PM – 11 PM
- Mon-Thurs: 12 PM – 10 PM
- Sunday: 12 PM – 8 PM
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Hidden Ships Distillery by phone on (910) 803-0021, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 116 Charlie Medlin Dr, Surf City, NC 28445. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Hidden Ships Distillery we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold an online booking link or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it hidden.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a distillery.