Description
Drinking local harks back to the founding of Asheville in 1798. Whether or not or not it’s moonshine or craft beer, the culture of local hooch is deeply ingrained within the mountain dwellers of Western North Carolina. Both residents and guests alike revel in Asheville’s wealth of breweries, brewpubs, beer festivals and dedicated retailers. That enthusiasm earned town the coveted Beer Town, USA title year after year and prompted West Coast beer giants Sierra Nevada, New Belgium and Oskar Blues to determine production facilities here. Beer creator and educator Anne Fitten Glenn recounts this intoxicating history, from the suds-soaked saloons of “Hell’s Half Acre” to the region’s explosion into a lager Mecca.