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Catawba Brewing Releases Barrel-Aged Apricot Brett Farmhouse Ale

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Catawba Brewing taps a special barrel-aged Apricot Brett Farmhouse Ale (7.5 percent ABV) on Thursday, June 29, celebrating the halfway point of their 2017 Passport Program. The beer spent six months in neutral oak barrels with Brettanomyces, then an additional two months of conditioning on fresh apricots. It has emerged with a complex flavor profile bursting with bright sour fruit, farmhouse funk, and a hint of oak.

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Peanut Butter Jelly Time Headlines Three New Catawba Releases

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Peanut Butter Jelly Time (5.7 percent ABV) makes its eagerly anticipated return on Friday, March 3. A light brown ale with a touch of wheat in its malt bill provides the bready base for the star ingredients. This one-of-a-kind beer was then aged on real whole roasted local WNC peanuts and Oregon raspberries, resulting in the wildly popular “sandwich in a glass.” PB&J will be available on draft and in new 4-pack tallboy cans in all Catawba tasting rooms and in distribution.

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Burial Beer Announces The Album Series Bottle Releases

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Burial Beer Co. announces the launch of the Album Series, a series of limited release bottles inspired by their love of music and the way tracks on an album relate to one another and culminate into one cohesive sound.

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Sierra Nevada’s North Carolina Brewery Awarded LEED Platinum Certification

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum status—the highest level awarded—for its Mills River, North Carolina, brewing facility. This is a prestigious award for Sierra Nevada, long known for its commitment to environmental sustainability and forward-thinking practices.

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Burial Beer Co: Skillet Six Ways

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Skillet Six Ways: Thursday, June 2nd at 4pm

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Bike from Work Week: 5 WNC Breweries Support Bicycle Advocacy

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 National Bike to Work Week is May 16-20 and a handful of WNC breweries are hosting Bike from Work week. Enjoy a beer, support bicycle advocacy, and have your bike tuned at Wedge, HiWire, Highland, Wicked Weed and New Belgium Brewery on your way home from work. Proceeds from pint sales will be split between bicycle advocacy organization Asheville on Bikes and greenway non-profit Friends of Connect Buncombe. Each brewery will host an evening of bike-centric activities. On Friday, May 20 at 6 p.m. at New Belgium Brewery, the breweries will donate collective proceeds to the two non-profits.

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Beer and Chocolate Pairing: Catawba Brewing To Host During Beer Week

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Catawba Brewing hosts another wildly popular 90 minute Beer and Chocolate Pairing on the South Slope during Asheville Beer Week at 7:00 PM on the evening of Wednesday, June first.

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Highland Brewing Company Releases Highland Pilsner

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Last week, Highland Brewing Company released Highland Pilsner, its second new year-round beer of 2016. Highland Pilsner is available now on draft at select retail locations throughout its nine-state footprint and will debut in six-pack cans in mid-May.

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Burial Beer Company Announces Brewery Expansion Timeline

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BURIAL BEER CO. ANNOUNCES BREWERY EXPANSION TIMELINE AND
DISTRIBUTION PLANS FOR SUMMER 2016

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Fat Tire Flowing from New Belgium’s Asheville Brewery

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New Belgium Brewing’s flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale is flowing from their Asheville brewery and heading toward draft lines and cold boxes across the eastern United States. With production ramping up over the next few years, the 500,000 barrel capacity, 127,000 square-foot brewery gives the country’s fourth-largest craft brewer 1.5 million barrels of total capacity.

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