Catawba Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Asheville,
North Carolina,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
Made By The Water
Associated with 3 Venues
Established in 1999
Contact
Description
The brewery (location) is closed, beer is being brewed in Alabama @ Oyster City Brewing.
It all began with a Christmas gift in 1994. Billy Pyatt, a notoriously hard guy to buy presents for, fell in love with the carboys, pots, hydrometers, grains, hops, chemistry, and physics involved in brewing. His brother, Scott, fell right in with him. Their love became an obsession that could only be resolved by going pro – not an easy thing to do in 1999!
We have tasting Rooms in Asheville, Morganton and Charlotte NC. Our kegs & cans are distributed in TN, NC, SC, GA and AL.
It all began with a Christmas gift in 1994. Billy Pyatt, a notoriously hard guy to buy presents for, fell in love with the carboys, pots, hydrometers, grains, hops, chemistry, and physics involved in brewing. His brother, Scott, fell right in with him. Their love became an obsession that could only be resolved by going pro – not an easy thing to do in 1999!
We have tasting Rooms in Asheville, Morganton and Charlotte NC. Our kegs & cans are distributed in TN, NC, SC, GA and AL.
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
10 oz draft. Aromas mouth, coffee and cereal with hints of honey. Flavor follows. Coffee throughout with notes of cereal grain. Very soft honey sweet ass. It’s nicely made.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Mar 2023
at 01:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
10 oz draft. Aroma, soft, blueberry, and lemon juice. Flavor shows me soft sour wheat, cream of wheat, and soft blueberry. A very nice palate refresh.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Mar 2023
at 01:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Can: Poured a golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, grassy, grain. Taste is nice crisp grain, smooth and refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2022
at 01:40
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 5
Some serious homerism going on in these ratings. Kind of a misguided beer. Coffee on plenty, and some vegetable coffee tang. Golden pour with ok head. Not something you want to drink much of. Cream. Sweet finish with light off tang. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Nov 2022
at 00:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
tap at Rocky's Chicken Shack in Asheville. Nice light wit - golden, crisp and easy to drink --- Beer merged from original tick of White Zombie on 23 Apr 2025 at 15:11 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Solid beer - has on tap at hotel in Asheville. Easy drinker, decent flavored
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Oct 2022
at 01:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz can poured into a glass. Cloudy with small white head. Aroma is wheat esters, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is wheat esters and some orange.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2022
at 01:42
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz can from Total Wine. Pours a cloudy reddish-amber color with a small beige head and poor retention. No lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel malt and pumpkin spices. The taste follows the nose: Sweet caramel malt flavor with strong cinnamon and nutmeg spices. Not much pumpkin flavor. Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but, this is more of a spicy amber ale versus a pumpkin ale. Medium body and carbonation. Not bitter. Okay.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2022
at 22:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 12 oz can poured into a weizen glass. Aroma is nice wheat esters, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is wheat esters and some blackberry.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2022
at 01:20
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3
Yea I had the zombie, now for the lemon ginger zombie, heheheh. Pour is cloudy pale from a can. Nose is somewhat slaggy. First taste is nothing expected. It starts with a medium phenolic bitterness and then rolls into a different kind of odd bitter bite. Decent co2. Cant really find the ginger in here, no warming sensations. The lemon is more like lemon peel rather than straight up lemon. Yes, cannot live up to its label. Don't judge a book by its cover, whew. Overall this stuff is just a little too difficult for me.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jul 2022
at 19:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft: Poured a golden with a white head. Aroma yeast, fruity, coriander. Taste is fruity, crisp and crushable, grainy, light citrus.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jul 2022
at 18:45