Trip to Asheville

Go see Sierra Nevada facility. I like Burial IPAs the most, alot of breweries you can walk to on the South Slope area (Burial, Wicked Weed, Funkatorium, Hi Wire, Green Man, Asheville Brewing, Bhramari Brewhouse, Twin Leaf)

 

Make sure to book your Sierra Nevada tour soon. They fill up way in advance. Just spent a week in Asheville and did tours of Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, Highland and green man. Went to 18 breweries and burial was my personal overall favorite.

 

Hey, its YET ANOTHER Asheville thread from someone that hasn't bothered to search or read the forum at all. Yay! At least some of the other duplicates have a slightly different angle (asking about food, kids, dogs, whatever).

Burial does by far the best IPAs. Pernicious and Freak of Nature is a solid IPA/DIPA as long as you're fine with drinking ABInBev (no judgement. I still drink WW, just not as much as I did). Sierra Nevada is brewery Disneyland. Highland is the old guy on the block that's started putting out some really solid brewery-only stuff in the past couple years. Everything else is somewhere on a spectrum between those places.

 

Thanks for the response and the unnecessary thread.

ETA: By the way, just to make sure that the search function is actually working, I just did a search of this forum with 'Asheville' in the title, 14 threads this year. Plus there's the Beer Guide for Asheville. Two of the threads are actually called 'Visiting Asheville' and another is called 'Best IPA in Asheville'. I bet with a minimum of looking you could have found more information about your question than you've received in your thread as of yet.

 

What do you want from your IPAs...hazy juice or west coast bitterness? That very much influences the right response here.

 

Would it? Is there a category that Burial wouldn't win, in Asheville, for IPA right now? They make a pretty wide range of IPAs I thought, though you can't count on any particular one being on tap when you're there which could be a downside.

 

The search function does work, but I've always found it a bit wonky.

 

Complains about another Asheville thread. Proceeds to mention four different breweries, a number of individual beers, and even a nod towards personal support of WW's recent sellout.

 

I'm not personally a huge fan of their IPAs, particularly when sometimes a beer with the same name can be a juicebomb or a traditional IPA. I hate NE IPAs so I hate rolling the dice (at least at the bar you can ask the bartender; this is a bigger issue with their cans).

 

OP. Check out this link. Tons of great info.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...q=Asheville&o=date&c[title_only]=1&c[node]=17

Happy reading

 

Yes, because while I'm complaining I like to at least be minimally helpful. And the fact that I occasionally still drink Wicked Weed doesn't mean I support their sellout. Its a recognition that they still put out good beer. My spending with them as easily dropped by a factor of 10.

 

I'm quite aware. Do you think its changed so much that one of the 14 threads this year focused on Asheville wouldn't cover it? Including one that's less than 72 hours old? And an IPA thread in Asheville thread barely more than a month old? I love Asheville and all, but at some point its just the same information over and over if people don't even both to read what's been written about Asheville (a decent amount of which has been by people posting in this thread, even me). Its not like you were just asking about the newest stuff and how it compares to what's been around for a while.

Just to toss out a brewery that hasn't been mentioned because it actually is very new, Archetype Brewing. Been open 1-2 months or so. Haven't been myself but good friends of mine were in there over the weekend and it sounds like a pretty cool space. They only had one beer and said it was decent but not outstanding. Too small of a sample size to really know for sure though.

 

Did you ever consider that not everyone is as familiar with searching for existing threads? When you like craft beer it is very easy to be pretentious. Shout out to the person that spent their time to post a link to the information!!

 

Considering the person that asked for information has been a member on BA for 12 years? No, it didn't cross my mind that the large Search box on the upper right was an unknown feature or that search functionality on forums was unusual. More to the point, if the OP wasn't familiar with searching for threads, how would they become familiar if they weren't told about it?

Since people like links:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/place/city/77/ - The BA Beer Guide for Asheville, which does a decent job, though I wouldn't put Hillman at the top certainly. And it misses some of the nearby not-actually-in-Asheville breweries, like Sierra Nevada, Zebulon, Pisgah, and Oskar Blues.

 

Sierra Nevada

/trip