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Charlie Papazian coming to Asheville and more

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Yes, the homebrew guru, Charlie Papazian, is coming to visit Asheville in February. Here are details we published in Mountain Xpress this week: Even non-beer-geeks around here recognize the name Charlie Papazian — because he’s the guy who runs the Beer City, USA online poll, which Asheville tied with Portland, Ore., in 2009, and won [...]

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2010 Beer Highlights (for WNC)

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Here’s last week’s column on my 2010 Beer Highlights for Western North Carolina. I also discussed the year in beer on Local Edge Radio last week. A teaser: Highland Brewing opens new tasting room Highland (finally) joined the other Asheville-based breweries and opened a tasting room. The new tasting room is something to behold — [...]

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Big beer week ahead plus

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Hey y’all, Damn, the holidays keep coming faster every year, don’t they? Here’s some North Carolina Brews News: beer lover gatherings plus some seasonal and holiday releases. Me hanging in the Foothills Brewing tent at the 2010 Brewgrass Festival. Why this photo? Read on for some Asheville beer dinner news. A couple things I left [...]

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Pint Night Specials

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Found a bunch of pint and beer specials in Asheville (and one in Sylva) for this week’s Brews News. Here they are: Mondays French Broad Brewery: $2.50 for draught pints. Rankin Vault: $2 for 20-ounce PBR draught. Tuesdays Tingles Café: $3 for any of their eight local draught pints. Wednesdays Craggie Brewing: 21.5 oz BIG [...]

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Brews News: how much are you getting for your cash?

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This week’s Brews News updates and revisits the Honest Pint Project, at least for some Asheville drinking haunts. There’s also some news about Asheville’s Oktoberfest celebration. Mark your calendars for Oct. 9. I’ll have more information about that party and some fun contests they’re running in the next couple of weeks. I really have been [...]

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More area Brews News

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Here’s more area Brews News for your delectation (some cross-posted and updated from my column at Mountain Xpress: Craggie Distributing So I talked to Craggie Brewing master brewer Bill Drew last week, and he told me they’ve been picked up by Tryon Distributing, which distributes all over the state of N.C. This is big news [...]

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WNC area Brews News and more

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Here’s some more Brews News from my biweekly Mountain Xpress column.  More is on the way next week. Trying to catch up as vacation has put me a bit behind the ball in terms of keeping up with just about everything. Sorry bout that. I’m also cutting back on my daily beer consumption in order [...]

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Brews News for Asheville & WNC

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Neighborhood kids at a past Fourth of July “parade.” That would be my oldest, aka Miss Competition, about to push off on the scooter. For her, it’s not a parade, it’s a race. Art boy, on the other hand, is the one using a pot and spoon as a drum. He gets the parade concept. [...]

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American Craft Beer Week Events in Asheville, N.C.

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Yeah, I know I have a calendar page, but I haven’t quite figured it out. This column is better anyway because it gives lots of details about cool stuff happening next week, May 17-23, which is American Craft Beer Week. Go forth and quaff good beer, y’all. Here are a couple of happenings from the [...]

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