The wife and I were meeting a group of friends for a New Belgium Brewing event here on 6/28/12. First impression was that the place was much more spacious than I thought based on the online pictures. We were lucky enough to get a good size table for our group since we were there early. Very good to great selection of beer, but they do seem to have a lot of local/NC beers on tap, which takes away from them truly having beers from around the world. That being said, they do have a lot of bottled beer with a worldwide representation. The variety did not make a difference this evening as we mostly drank New Belgium beers due to the event, and I only drank their awesome sour beer called Tart Lychee.
Atmosphere was nice. It certainly got louder as the evening progressed, especially with the band playing, but they played some good music. Service was great throughout the night, even with our server being more and more busy. Parking is somewhat of an issue, but we easily got street parking and it is near the light rail station. They do not serve food but there was a food truck parked outside and they do allow you to get outside food and bring it in to eat while you drink their beer. The food truck was The Herban Legend and it was awesome food, please see separate review. I will certainly drop by World of Beer again whenever I am in this part of Charlotte.