Foothills Brewing
Microbrewery
in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2004
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.
cheap (9533) reviewed Cottonwood Pumpkin from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Either a very early or very old bottle, code is 0831163115, who can tell me? 2016? A little darker than a pale ale. Smell is somewhat veggie, no real hint of pumpkin. Wasn’t expecting much in the taste but I am pleasantly surprised. Very good co2 cutting thru and there is this hint of mild tartness in there. Not overly done on the pumpkin spices and I appreciate that. Yes, in the middle of the session I think I get some hints of soda pop, just a hint. Not really like pumpkin pie but perhaps something a little better. Must be the real pumpkin in this that pulls it on thru. Just a subtle hint of pumpkin spices, well balanced and never in yer face. Probably one of the better pumpkin beers I’ve had. Yes, much better than expected, good job foothills; and if this is last year’s, perhaps every bottle should be aged a year but I think this may just be a real early 2017, no?
Olut (21769) reviewed Pilot Mountain Pale Ale from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Harris Teeter, Hampstead, North Carolina. Deep amber pale ale style beer with a small head. Has a fair strength with good tropical fruits behind this.
cheap (9533) reviewed Frostbite Black IPA from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
OK, so anything from a bottle called frostbite should be white? Well, no, this is big and black but large and in charge. Smells like IPA fer sure, tastes like IPA fer sher and it feels like IPA; ferrrr sherrrrerr. If my eyes were shut I would think this is just another potent IPA. But they’re not and I see a big black beer that is insulting my cheap pale lager taste buds wwheww louie louie louie louwoahwwww. Terribly on style and I may say it treads into imperial IPA territory. If you like IPA, try this and do not care about my numbers, whew. Big ass volatile brew. Seems like much more than 7%. Some hidden carbonation cutting thru in the end.
Olut (21769) reviewed Torch Pilsner from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle from Harris Teeter, Hampstead, North Carolina. Golden, clear, with a carbonation and small head. Easy-drinking for its strength with a fuller pilsner taste.
cheap (9533) reviewed Hoppyum IPA from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Nice quality bottle label. Wasn’t careful, pop lid for a gusher, heheheh. Nice big rocky head fer sher. Somewhat cloudy and uncivilized looken. What else can be said except that this is one big fat nasty nellie terribly on style IPA with a tad of astringentness attached. Big dull whack in the palate.
cheap (9533) reviewed Torch Pilsner from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Very well done label on bottle. Pours like a pale lager. Pale lager aroma. Nice big rocky white head. Big sharp old country pilz bite, sharp, pointed and almost astringent. Difficulty after each slug. Long pilz btter finish. Appropriate name.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Dead and Berried from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at Denver Rare Beer Tasting 8. Pours black with medium tan head. The aroma is bourbon, wood, dark chocolate, berries. Medium body, roasted malt, dark chocolate, light berry flavor, cocoa, light dry finish, boozy, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Reviewed from notes. Thanks for the trade, Wendy!
This was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a mostly dark brown color with a finger’s worth of sustaining white foamy head. After dissipation, some messy lace.
The aroma had some milk chocolate sweetness up front. Then some nuts, faint roast, light caramel/toffee base malt. Sweet oats/grains. light earthy hops.
The flavor blended the sweet to the roast pretty nice. Bled into the aftertaste to find it’s way into the finish in the same way.
The feel was about medium bodied with a pretty good sessionability about it. Silky smooth all around my tongue. Carbonation was good and so was the ABV.
Overall, pretty nice brown ale well worthy of having again.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Frostbite Black IPA from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Roast and a little caramel. Blacknpour with great head and lacing. Bittersweet finish. A little bark like papyrus. Bottle.
yespr (55501) reviewed Jade IPA from Foothills Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is grapefruity. Slight peachy. Fruity, peachy and grapefruity. Bitter. Crisp hoppy. Smooth fruity and bitter finish.