Highland Brewing Co. / Asheville, NC
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This Beer Run is brought you
by the letters NC and HHH
A couple weeks ago, my friend Henry (HHH) dropped off a pre-packaged
beer run for me. He had been on vacation
in North Carolina, and as we beer geeks are prone to do, he checked out the
local stores for interesting and unique beers he couldn't get back home. Fortunately for me (and therefore,
vicariously for you, my legions of
loyal readers), he applied the old, "One for you, one for me"
technique as he picked out his beers.
Interestingly, however, he brought me a mixed 5-pack of North Carolina
Beers, with one slot noticeably empty in the 6-pack holder. "One for you, TWO for me..." Hey, I'm
not complaining, I got 5 free beers out of it!
Thanks!
You might not know this, but North Carolina has the largest number of
craft breweries than any other state in the American South, with over 28
breweries and 21 production breweries.
Many of these beers are not distributed outside of the state, so that
makes a visit to North Carolina a treat for a beer geek.
Click on the NC Brewer’s Guild
logo above for a directory of all of the great places to get a fresh beer in North
Carolina. And while I’m at it, I’ll put
a plug in for The Beer Mapping Project, an
ingenious mashup of Google Maps and directories of breweries, brewpubs, beer
bars and beer stores. Here’s a map of North
Carolina beer locations.
And another thing… if you've
visited the Outer Banks of North Carolina, you've probably figured out that my Beer Run logo was inspired at least in
part by the iconic logo of the Brew Thru, a small chain of
drive-thru beer (and other beverage) stores on the Carolina coast.
Now on to today’s (well, yesterday’s) beer. Highland Brewing is the oldest of Asheville’s
nine breweries and brewpubs, starting production in 1994. Highland brews five year-round beers and five
seasonals. Gaelic Ale, their flagship
beer, is an American style filtered amber ale.
Now I have actually seen this on the shelves in Virginia, but never
picked it up before. My mistake.
The Gaelic Ale is very good – it’s got a nice malty, slightly grainy
taste. Very drinkable, not
overpowering. It definitely will become
a go-to beer.
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