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Welcome to the new Beer Mecca- Asheville. There are no less than 10 craft beer breweries in Asheville, NC and growing. They range from larger established brew pubs (see insert below) to the quaint 1 beer only estabs. Asheville also boasts several beer festivals featuring its fine ales and stouts. For a population of 85k, that’s a lot of beer, beer festivals, and beer related fun!
I do it local all day long!
UPDATE: Asheville’s Beer scene just got better! 2 new Craft brew titians of the beer industry are setting up shop in Asheville, Sierra Nevada and New Belgium plan to open monstrous beer facilities in this ever frothy city!
Asheville Breweries
- Highland Brewery-( 12 Olde Charlotte Highway) the oldest and most popular of Asheville’s brewers. Tours are available on Saturdays. Oatmeal Stout is especially popular.
- Asheville Brewing- (77 Coxe Ave)
- Craggie Brewing- (197 Hillard Ave)
- Green Man Brewing- (23 Buxton Ave)
- Oysterhouse Brewing- (95 Patton Ave)
- Lexington Avenue Brewery- (39 N. Lexington)
- French Broad Brewing- (101 Fairview Rd)
- Wedge Brewing Co- (125 Roberts St.)
- Pisguah Brewing- (150 Eastside Dr)
- Thirsty Monk- (92 Patten Ave) New Nano brewery with a cool scene.
Asheville Beer Festivals
- BrewGrass Festival-American Beer and Bluegrass, need I say more? Every September.
- Asheville Oktoberfest- Just like Munich’s except smaller, and less Germans!
- Winter Warmer Festival- Asheville’s Winter Beer Festival
- Beer City Festival- Every June.
- Asheville Brews Cruise- Not a festival but a titillating city brew pub tour
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Besides all the breweries, Asheville is littered with Beer Gardens
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