Asheville Wine and Food Presents Special Dinner Series

March 22 beginning at 6:00 PM at Chestnut Restaurant, 48 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville NC:  Four-course Beer Dinner featuring Highland Brewing Company. Greet Spring with Chef Joe Mitchell's locally focused menu, featuring Hickory Nut Gap meats and the latest beer and ale creations from Highland Brewing Company: New Highland IPA, Kinsman Mocha Stout infused with Cinnamon, Chipotle, Vanilla and Cacao Nibs, Saw Whet Saison and their staple Gaelic Ale.


Reception begins at 6:00 PM with a four-course dinner to follow. $70.00 ($73.44 w/service fee) Price is Per Person: Dinner, Beer, Tax and Gratuity Included. GET TICKETS HERE. 

Highland Brewing Company Cold Mountain Release Party

November 13, 4 PM - 9 PM at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Asheville NC: Cold Mountain Release Party.The Brewery's Tasting Room will offer a limited amount of packaged Cold Mountain beer available for purchase starting at 4 PM. 

Enjoy live music by The Blood Gypsies, River Whyless and Brushfire Stankgrass. Local food trucks and a free shuttle service from the Oakley Shopping Center will be available.

Highland Brewing Company Community Night

April 3, 4 PM - 8 PM at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Asheville, NC: Community Night. The Brewing Company will donate $1.00 of every pint sold to Loving Food Resources.

LFR started in Asheville by three individuals in 1991 to address the food insecurity issues faced by people living with HIV/AIDS. In 1996, they expanded their services to any person receiving home Hospice care regardless of diagnosis. LFR is the only "self select" food pantry addressing the issue of food security or hunger in the HIV/AIDS or home Hospice communities in Western North Carolina. LFR continues to do this work as a 100% volunteer non-profit organization.

Highland Brewing Company opened in December 1994, using almost entirely of retrofitted dairy equipment. The original brewery in downtown Asheville could produce up to 6,500 barrels of beer per year. Now located at a new location on the outskirts of Asheville, they have capacity to brew over 50,000 barrels annually with room to grow. Until 1998,  beer was available only in kegs and hand-filled 22-oz. bottles.  That year a four-head bottling machine was added, which enabled packaging in 12-oz. bottles. In 2002, a used Krones bottling line was installed, capable of filling 7,200 12-oz. bottles per hour. Today beer is brewed twice daily, four days per week, and demand continues to exceed supply.

Wham Bam Bowie Band at Highland Brewing Company

March 14, 6 PM - 8 PM   at The Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highwau in Asheville NC - The Wham Bam Bowie Band pays tribute to David Bowie’s catalog by starting with his earliest era. The band plans to work their way through the catalog in, roughly, chronological order. Their first run of shows features classics from the Hunky Dory and Space Oddity albums, with the highlight of the evening being a complete performance of Bowie’s influential breakthrough “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars.

”Wham Bam Bowie Band! brings Bowie’s iconic music to life, onstage once again. Unlike many artists who may be the subject of tributes, of course Bowie is still very much an active and creative force, with his highly acclaimed and international #1 record “The Next Day” reminding fans everywhere that he is still popular.

NC Beer Month Event: Asheville's The Best Frikin Beer Festival

April 27   The Best Firkin Beer Festival  The 2013 Beer Festival features cask-conditioned, barrel-aged and specialty beer. This is a pre-prohibition era festival that will have old time music by The Big Nasty Jazz Band and old time food from The Lowdown Food Truck.

Tickets can be purchased on the website by clicking on "The Best Firkin Beer Festival" poster. If event is not sold out by the day of the festival, tickets will be available at the door. VIP ticket holders will receive access to the festival 1 hour early and a free t-shirt.

The Festival is held at The Meadow at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Hwy in  Asheville NC

 

Asheville Brewery offers Special Package for NC Beer Month

This April, the inaugural NC Beer Month begins, and Asheville (aka Beer City USA) is joining in the fun with a month of fun events, festivals and travel packages.

Highland Brewing Company has partnered with the Aloft Hotel  to offer the awesome Beer City Experience. It takes place April 13-14, 2013 and time is running out to make a reservation.

The Beer City Experience includes, for two adults:
• Accommodations for one night at the new Aloft hotel (Sat, April 13)
• Learn about beer's raw ingredients at Riverbend Malt House
• Tour & tasting at Highland Brewing Company
• A comedy tour of Asheville provided by LaZoom Tours
• Four-course beer dinner at Lexington Avenue Brewery
• Brunch at Blackbird
• A treat from French Broad Chocolates

Deadline extended! Reserve by March 29, 2013 to secure your deal. CLICK HERE for Aloft Hotel details and online reservations

Appalachian Breakdown Bluegrass Festival

June 9, 2 PM - 8:30 PM at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway, in Asheville NC. Appalachian Breakdown Bluegrass Festival is a  day of bluegrass and beer in Highland Brewing Company's meadow. Live music performances will include the Kruger Brothers, Sons of Ralph, Buncombe Turnpike, Sanctum Sully and Southern Crescent.