Foothills Brewing

Microbrewery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2004

Contact
3800 Kimwell Dr, Winston-Salem, NC, 27103, United States
Description
It seems simple.

Water. Yeast. Grains. Hops. That’s all it takes to make beer. But what we do with those simple ingredients within these walls is what makes us special.

Foothills began brewing beer at our West 4th Street location in March 2005, with three 15-barrel fermenters. Jamie and his brewers managed to crank out 800 barrels of beer that year, and doubled that output the following year.

As demand and production continued to increase, the need became obvious for more space. The solution came in the form of a 48,000 square foot warehouse a few miles away, an old manila envelope factory that was retro-fitted with brewing equipment and became Foothills’ main production facility, located at 3800 Kimwell Drive.

Today both brewery locations continue to produce our top-quality beers. We offer weekend tours from our tasting room at our main brewing facility. Conversely, if you ask nicely at the downtown brewpub, you can probably get a peek at the operation.

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8.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
CBS vertical tasting @ Tim's. Thank you for sharing Jon. Dark brown pour, not too much foam just some beige foam. Soy sauce in the nose, leather and dark chocolate, blackberries. Vanilla and bourbon barrel is coming out. Taste is quite intense, bitter and roasty, barrel booze coming through. Chilli heat and lots of spices leasing to bitter and umami-filled finish. Good but well, probably difficult to evaluate after that last beer we had just before this one. Had also 2015 version @ bottle share @ Hansen's, thanks Brandon. Dark pour with some beige bubbles on the top. Sweet toffee nose some bourbon coconut and vanilla. Light peat and some smoke there. Nice liquid chocolate too. tastes sweet creamy some chillies, bit of peat and lots of cocoa, toffee and chocolate. Sweet and creamy with a nice chocolaty chilli tingle. Tasty. Rating moved from 3.9 to 4.1.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Feb 2018 at 02:48

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 8
Pitch black color. Thin dark brown color. Big chocolate vanilla, coffee, bourbon, molasses in the nose. Medium carbonation, the mouth feel isn’t spectacular but good with dark chocolate, vanilla bourbon, molasses, really nice with oak. The mouth feel isn’t that fantastic but ok.
Tried on 16 Feb 2018 at 14:22

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bomber thanks to Beercation. Inky black with a rusty tan head, at first the aroma was subdued but then you get some dark chocolate. Medium to full bodied. The taste is licorice, molasses and dark chocolate. Very rich good stuff. Ap 4 at 7-8 t 8 p 4 o 14 ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried on 11 Feb 2018 at 12:37

8/10
Dark black bod sml tan head. Roast choc fruit arma. Roast choc toffee caramel fruit flav. Med full bod mod carb. 7/5/8/4/15 3.9
Tried from Draft on 27 Jan 2018 at 14:41

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap at P&P Charleston. Medium brown with medium light brown head. Aroma is evergreen, medium body, medium carbonation, and good lacing. Taste is pine hops and dark chocolate.
Tried from Draft on 04 Jan 2018 at 13:21

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Sample at GABF 10/07/2017, thanks to my bro for assistance with note-taking. Hazy yellow-gold color with a thin white head that evaporates quickly. Spotty lace. Mildly spicy hops, fruit and malt in the nose. Light-boded with flavors of grassy hop, fruit and bready malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a grassy hop aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried on 08 Dec 2017 at 13:11

3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 2
Bottle assumed to be typical stupid ass clear pale IPA yeller. No smell per se at the neck of the bottle. First taste is astringent difficult veggiie IPA, like man regular IPA but with a big veggie bitter kick in the face. Strong, difficult, lasting tastee impressions. Except for the astigent behavior, this is pretty much yer ubiquitous big BS IPA brew, whew.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2017 at 19:04

6.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Bottle. Thanks Neil!. Pours clear golden, Medium off white head, decent lacing. Aroma is oranges, leafy, vegetal, pot. Flair is medium sweet, medium plus bitter. Medium body. A bit sickly.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Nov 2017 at 20:14

7/10
Nice aroma, roasted and bitter taste. Pretty darned good.

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Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2017 at 14:15

7/10
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Tried from Draft on 26 Oct 2017 at 20:25