Hi-Wire Brewing
Microbrewery
in
Asheville,
North Carolina,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 6 Venues
Established in 2013
Contact
Description
Hi-Wire Brewing’s journey began in the summer of 2013 at their 2,700 square foot South Slope Brewery located at 197 Hilliard Ave in the heart of Asheville’s South Slope Brewery District. With the 2015 opening of their Big Top Production Brewery up the road, the original Hi-Wire brewhouse is 100% dedicated to brewing award-winning sour and wild ales and one-off small batch beers.
Brewing beers with a connection to the past is important to us. We love to brew traditional styles that honor the heritage of our craft and pay respect to those who have crafted beer before us. Yet, as an American craft brewer, we are elated to participate in the culture of experimentation that has developed here.
Brewing beers with a connection to the past is important to us. We love to brew traditional styles that honor the heritage of our craft and pay respect to those who have crafted beer before us. Yet, as an American craft brewer, we are elated to participate in the culture of experimentation that has developed here.
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Carbonated hop juice. Kinda encapsulates all my bitchings about Session IPAs. Big juicy nose with a teensy weensy taste. Starts with a pine and citric-tinged front backed the mildest of toasted malt and corn notes, then collapses into nothingness. Finish is tonic water on a pine cone. Pass.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2017
at 13:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, courtesy of Travlr, shared at Ibis hotel, Kortrijk. Pours cloudy golden, small white head. Fruity, citrus, some funk, spicy, rye. Soft carbonation. Some sourness, light to moderate bitterness in finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2017
at 14:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Big and boozy, malt-forward without a whole lot of the hops the description flouts. Pour is absolutely amazing, hazy gold on top of ample head and prolific foam lattice. Nose comes across a bit mild for the style, nothing outstanding yet still giving up some notes of dank citrus hops. Taste seems off, though, sweet caramel mixing with a biscuit-tinged middle, the hops adding orange and grapefruit but not enough to stand out. Finishes weak, sweet without much piney hop resinous, not bitter, not citric, not anything, really. Good texture, slick with no trace of booze. Doesn’t help, though. Just a dull DIPA.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2017
at 20:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pour is a almost black with a little red showing through. Aroma is a bit of roast, cocoa powder and bitter bakers chcocolate. Flavor is more cocoa with some marshmallow sweetness. Finish has some chocolate covered banana and a touch of alcohol. While quite flavorful I don’t think Baltic porters should be this sweet.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2017
at 19:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
16oz can from Common Market pours a lightly hazy orange with some sticky, clumpy, white head. Nose has orange, grass, paper, perfume, a little guava. Flavor is solid, sweet with honey and tropical fruit, mostly guava but mango too, grassy, lime, lemon, tangerine. Finishes bitter, mostly full bodied but fairly smooth too.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Mar 2017
at 21:58
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can: Clear, light gold, almost no head. Lemon, grain aroma. Tart-sweet lemon, wheat malt. Nice, solid body.....increasing saltiness. Very good.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2017
at 17:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
75cl bottle. Trübes goldgelbes Bier mit einer geringen weißen Schaumkrone. Geruch nach grapefruit, Trauben. Geschmack sehr hopfig bitter, grasig, grapefruit, Trauben.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2017
at 10:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hopfiger, mild säuerlicher Antrunk. Minimal bitter, mild würzig, die Hopfigkeit bleibt konstant. Geringe Bitterkeit, spritzig, gut. 9/10/9/9//9
Tried
on 03 Mar 2017
at 15:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2 month old bottle > pilsner glass. A: Poured a bright pale yellow with very little head or retention. Crystal clear with slow bubbles rising. S: Woody bread pils scent with hints of hay and grass. T: Some grassy hop bitterness at first sip joined by lightly toasted bread. Bitterness remains at the finish. Simple and clean. M: Light and a little thin bodied with crisp snappy carbonation. Very clean dry finish. Refreshing and crushable. O: Better than expected. Reviews here are bad but I find this very enjoyable with great bread aroma and flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2017
at 16:40