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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5.8
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?

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2017 at 14:01


6
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.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jun 2017 at 08:05


3.9
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.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2017 at 17:03


4.6
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.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2017 at 15:31


3.1
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.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2017 at 16:36


4.1
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.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jun 2017 at 15:54


7
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.

Tried from Draft on 04 Jun 2017 at 00:51


7.8
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.

Tried on 06 May 2017 at 20:34


7.1
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.

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2017 at 22:38


6.8
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.

Tried from Draft on 17 Apr 2017 at 15:16