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Beer Masters starts tonight

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Tonight. 7 p.m. Mellow Mushroom. The opening night of the Asheville Beer Masters Tournament. I’ll be judging. Can’t wait to see y’all there. More dets from my Brews News column this week: Beer City seeks Beer Master The qualifying rounds for the inaugural Asheville Beer Masters Tourney are coming up. If you haven’t heard yet, [...]

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Who’s gonna be the Beer Master?

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My friend, Mary Eliza McRae, life-long Asheville girl and craft beer aficionado, came up with the idea to hold an Asheville Beer Master Tournament, kind of based on the annual Wynkoop Beer Drinker of the Year Contest. Here are some of the details from my Brews News column in Mountain Xpress: Want to show off [...]

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Asheville Charlie Week

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So Charlie Papazian finally arrived in Asheville today–a day late because of not one, but two, flight cancellations. But he’s here! Yay! And tonight is the Night of Five Casks (see post below). Tomorrow night is the presentation at Highland Brewing. Thursday night is the AHA rally. We’re calling this Asheville Charlie Week–follow on Twitter [...]

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The night of FIVE casks from Eastern North Carolina

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Wanna taste five specialty casks in one night? I bet you do. As do I. On Tuesday, Feb. 22 at Barley’s Taproom, starting at 7:00 p.m., WNC beer lovers can try the following beers from some of our N.C. breweries to the East of us: Big Boss Brewing – High Roller IPA cask dry-hopped with [...]

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Another new Asheville brewery…and more

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Yes, 2011 will see both a new nanobrewery in South Asheville (at The Thirsty Monk South) and a new “regular” brewery–The Altamont Brewing Company–in West Asheville. Not sure if we’re counting the nano, but if so, that’ll make 11 craft breweries in a town of around 76,000 people. Wow. Here’s my story on the Altamont [...]

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Sexual Chocolate? Yes, please.

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So tomorrow night, Tuesday, Feb. 1, will be the WNC Sexual Chocolate Release Party at Barley’s Taproom starting at 6 p.m. I was telling some colleagues this today at the Mountain Xpress office and one asked, “What’s Sexual Chocolate?” Another guy answered: “The best beer you’ve ever had.” While I’m not sure I’m ready to [...]

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Winter Warmer Beer Festival–soon

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Forgot to mention that I’ll be working at Asheville’s Winter Warmer Beer Festival today. If you don’t have tickets already, you’re probably out of luck. Though typically there are a few souls selling their tickets outside the venue the day of–which is TODAY! Yep, Sat., Jan. 22 from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Asheville [...]

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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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Start early, train hard

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Asheville’s oldest and most famous beer festival, Brewgrass, isn’t on tap until the third Saturday in September. Even so, you can start training now. Training, you ask? Yes, indeed. Because in order to taste around 200 beers in seven hours, you need to be in the best beer drinking shape possible. In order to help [...]

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Asheville Beer in 2011 and beer calendar

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I love January in Asheville–there aren’t many tourists around (not that I don’t appreciate the tourists) and there are beautiful crisp sunsets every night that it’s not cloudy. Now I have another reason to love January in Asheville–it’s a rocking local beer month. Actually, both Jan and Feb are chock-a-block with beery events. Check it [...]

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