Highland Brewing Company
Regional Brewery
in
Asheville,
North Carolina,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1994
Contact
12 Old Charlotte Hwy, #200, Asheville, NC, 28803, United States
Description
Highland Brewing was founded in 1994 by retired engineer and entrepreneur Oscar Wong, establishing it as the pioneer of Asheville, NC’s booming craft beer industry. With a portfolio that is equal parts established and inventive, Highland is known for consistently excellent beer. Proudly regional, Highland is distributed in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Kentucky. Highland is the largest independent family-owned brewery born in the Southeast, with the third largest solar array in an American craft brewery. The brewery is in a rehabilitated manufacturing facility on a hilltop, affording space for thousands of visitors to enjoy limited release beers, tours, and live music. In addition, the event center and rooftop can be reserved for private events. Since 2015, the company has been led by Wong’s daughter, Leah Wong Ashburn, and has 50 full-time employees.
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap @the brewery. Short pour. Shiny, grapefruit-colored brew. Earthy, soft strawberry & grape. Taste is lemon, sharp grape skins, muscadines that taste like watermelon, toasty grain, soft, earthy funk. Botanist makes a cider that tastes a lot like this. Great carb, very yeasty. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2022
at 02:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 day old bottle A: Crystal clear pale amber brown with little head, retention or lace. S: Grainy toasted bread with hints of caramel and herbs. T: Sweet grain and caramel with woody notes. Light but sharp herbal or peppery hop bitterness and a bit of pine or citrus lend balance. M: Light bodied with average to low carbonation. Lightly sticky. O: Well balanced and approachable. Not great but well worth a try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2022
at 00:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pale yellow color with thin lacing. Mild, slightly sweet aroma. Taste is mild and smooth with a light peach flavor at the finish. Low hop bitterness, but not overly sweet.
Tried
on 03 May 2022
at 21:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
6 week old can A: Clear pale yellow with a tall tight head that held a pad. Clumpy lace. S: Floral and citrus notes and sweet bread dough or cake. T: Tart and lightly bitter with florals and citrus from the nose. Tonic-y toward the finish, which is better than seltzery. M: Thin bodied and spritzy finishing very clean. O: Expectedly not bad but lacking in body and malt presence. OK for 3.9%.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2022
at 23:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Thanks, Jim! Ozzy70) Bottle. A- Roasty, cola, cocoa. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, tan head. T- Cola, roasty, faint bitterness, cocoa, molasses. P- Medium body, slightly thin texture, average carbonation, smooth finish. O- A definite classic. Well balanced. Sometimes it's easy to forget about these old reliables with so much flavored stuff out there,
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2021
at 15:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Taster at the Brick Store Pub. Pours brown, with a small, beige head. The nose is cloves, toffee, dust, chalk, and light coffee. Sweet and malty, with a thin, acrid bitterness. Fair.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2021
at 18:39
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
From a $2 can its clear pale yeller with a bog foamy head. Some fresh beery urine nose. Taste is initially not as sharply better as expected but it builds in the middle. Sharpness builds in the middle. Not bad overall, perhaps a little better than expected.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2021
at 12:00
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Oct 2021
at 17:58
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 1
Texture 4
Overall 1
OK, so I'm drinken this and I'm thinking I've had this before; a veggie tasting bitter and sometimes immaturely astringent brew. Weird stagnant hop olfactory, you know, skunky cabbage, yet mild? You also know, like any other session bullshit IPA that thinks its necessary to punish your buds with bitterness, just to enjoy a beer. Is drinken a high abv alky beer endurable if its bitter? Just asking. Answer is yes, as long as you get a sense of euphorbia from it. And this? No positive psychological effects, just IPA bitter, there you have it: An IPA without any psycho enjoyment, The end.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2021
at 22:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Competent IPA, just not altogether interesting or memorable. Strong notes of pine, resin, and grapefruit, with a firm bitterness on the back end laced with caramel and citrus zest. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing that would bring me back, either.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2021
at 00:20