Brewpub Exclusive Brews

In honor of National Humor Month (April), Asheville Brewing is showing a series of classic comedies combined with special, small batch beer releases to provide the perfect drinking accompaniment for each movie.

In conjunction with the special showing of the movie that shaped our teen years, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Asheville Brewing will release a special beer, “Aloha Mr. Hand” Pineapple Cream IPA. The movie will take place at our Merrimon Avenue movie theater on Thursday, April 13, at 7 p.m. The beer will be released on draft the same day at 5 p.m. at our downtown and north locations.

Our brew team took an already hop-fruity IPA and conditioned it on hand cut chunks of pineapple, milk sugar, and coconut water to create Aloha Mr. Hand. This creamy, tropical IPA will go down smooth.

In honor of National Humor Month (April), Asheville Brewing is showing a series of classic comedies combined with special, small batch beer releases to provide the perfect drinking accompaniment for each movie.

In conjunction with the special showing of the classic comedic love story, The Princess Bride, Asheville Brewing will release a special beer, “Ashe Brew Wish” Passion Fruit Sour Blonde. The movie will take place at our Merrimon Avenue movie theater on Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m. The beer will be released on draft the same day at 5 p.m. at our downtown and north locations.

Ashe Brew Wish Passion Fruit Sour Blonde is a tart but refreshing sour ale made with passion fruit puree and a touch of rose hips. It’s perfect for spring time drinking.

Asheville Brewing Company’s Bantha Milk Blueberry Stout is the finest beer in all the galaxy. The combination of oats, milk sugar, and a huge amount of sweet blueberry pure equals a beer that could make the Kessel Run in less than 12 Parsecs. We made this brew last year in honor of one of our favorite movie series of all time. We love Bantha Milk so much that we are bringing this deliciously dark concoction back for Asheville Beer Week 2018. 

Draft only release on Thursday, May 24th at both our downtown and North Asheville locations. Bantha Milk will disappear fast!

Asheville Brewing Company and Southern rock/country band Blackberry Smoke made a beer together. “Like an Arrow” blackberry-infused wheat ale is named for Blackberry Smoke’s new critically acclaimed album, “Like An Arrow.” The beer is hopped with Nelson Sauvin and Mosaic to balance out the sweetness of the blackberry infusion. Asheville Brewing’s brew team parsed out six different ways of hopping the beer in a blind taste evaluation. Nelson Sauvin, one of the most unique hops on the market today, imparts a white grape flavor, while Mosaic is one of the most versatile of earthy hops.

“The result is a great combo of hops and sweet blackberry with a little pop of wheat,” says head brewer Pete Langheinrich. “If you don’t typically think you like wheat beers, you should try this one. It’s easy-drinking but well-rounded and no one element of the beer overwhelms the other.”

A portion of proceeds from all sales of the beer will benefit the fundraising effort of the Shepherd’s Men on behalf of the SHARE Military Initiative at Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia (the band’s hometown). The Shepherd’s Men annually campaign to raise resources and awareness for injured post-911 war veterans being treated for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at SHARE.

The 5.2% ABV ale will be released on Friday, February 3, at 5 p.m. at all Asheville Brewing locations on draft.

No need to hide the thunder on this one! The Bluth Family Ginger Beer will provide a mouthful of flavor starting with locally sourced blue and yellow ginger from Rayburn Farms along with enough blueberry puree to put your foot in your mouth. It is gluten free!

One of our favorite beers, has returned for one of our favorite months! 

In celebration of Pride month, we are re-releasing this colorful, refreshing, berry-full brew. This year’s iteration is an easy drinking fruited sour ale with a generous addition of raspberries and blueberries. 

“It’s the Rosé of beers,” says head brewer Pete Langheinrich. “Fruity, crisp, and full of delicious raspberry and blueberry flavor.” 

For every keg sold, a portion of sales will be donated to a local non-profit advocating for LGBTQ+ community in Asheville. 

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Rich and toasty, full-bodied brown brewed with UK grown oats. Aromas and flavors of graham crackers and biscuits with a touch of honey sweetness.

Buck Up Coconut is a smooth, easy drinking brown ale, elevated with organic coconut toasted to perfection, along with locally roasted Mountain Air coffee.  With a low ABV of 4.8 and a light body, this is a refreshing brown ale that will meet the demands of your coffee or beer needs.

We took our Putin’s Unicorn Dance Party Baltic Lager and lagered it in red wine barrels to produce D’yavol, our Russian Devil beer, for Devil’s Night, which will take place on Sunday, October 30. Each of the nine South Slope breweries will release a Devil’s Night brew that evening. The tannins from the barrel lagering dries the Porter’s finish while adding a red wine tartness to the flavor. On draft only at our Downtown location. 

Our house DIPA brewed with a variety of hops and methods. Sometimes hazy, sometimes

clear, always experimental. This is our open canvas to try out some new things in the world of

hoppy brewing. But! Our current batch on tap is a return to the original brewed with Simcoe, Citra, and Mosaic hops. Sip on this clear and fruity DIPA one more time.

Asheville Brewing will release El Lagedor Mexican Lager on Friday, June 2, in honor of Asheville Beer Week, at all of our locations.

Our light, crisp, crushable summer version of a Mexican lager includes German Pilsner and Vienna malts, plus a good amount of flaked maize. It’s gently hopped with Noble hop varieties for balance. It’s a light brew made with high-quality ingredients for smooth session drinking. Low ABV and great flavor!

Asheville Brewing has brewed a special cream ale to celebrate Asheville Lyric Opera’s production of Donizetti’s comic opera, “Elixir of Love,” on July 14 and 16.

Elixir of Love Cream Ale, brewed with lactose (milk sugar) and both apricot and peach purees, will be released on Friday, July 14, at 5 p.m., on draft only, at both our downtown and North Asheville locations.

“We hopped it with Azaca and Hallertau Blanc, which give it white grape and peach flavors, in addition to the fruit puree,” says Branden Mountain, Asheville Brewing lead brewer. “It’s a hybrid American-style cream ale.”

The Elixir of Love opera tells the story of a man in love with a woman who is out of league, so he purchases a love potion from a traveling doctor to aid him in his pursuit. Does the elixir work? Find out by seeing the opera and then trying an Elixir of Love yourself at Asheville Brewing Company!

This light style comes in a drinkable 4.8% ABV. Asheville Brewing will release a small amount of the beer on nitro as well. English-style cream ales typically are nitrogenated, so come out to try both the American and English versions of this traditional style.

In honor of one of our favorite days, St. Paddy’s Day, and to honor one of our favorite Irish guys, Asheville T-Shirt creative dude, Kevin Flanagan, we’ve created a special, small batch Irish Red. This traditional-style beer is brewed with Ireland grown barley and English Crystal malt with a touch of malted oats for a creamy flavor. It offers a light caramel and apple aroma to complement the toasty malt body, and finishes with a slight fruitiness from the English yeast. Hopped with Sylva hops, a unique hop that adds a bit of woodiness to the flavor and balances the malt profile, this beer provides easy-drinking at 5.3% ABV for the celebratory day.  

Available on draft only at our Coxe Ave and Merrimon Ave locations. To be released on March 17, 2017 at 5 p.m.

Good Helles Bock has spent more than two months lagering. This clean, refreshing German-style lager is lightly dry-hopped with whole cone Saaz hops. The malt bill includes Asheville’s Riverbend Malt House’s Heritage malt plus Vienna and German pilsner malts. These traditional Czech/German brewing ingredients harmonize into a full-bodied pale lager that goes down smooth. This unfiltered lager has a deep golden color and tastes like springtime.

This beer will be released on draft only at Asheville Brewing’s brewpubs.

Our Escape Artist Pale Ale with peach puree and a special blend of hot peppers. Sweet and spicy at the same time!

Asheville Brewing Co. and Industry Nine Componentry once again have partnered to create a delicious beer to raise money to support local greenways!  This 2019 version is an extra juicy Session IPA hopped with Nelson Sauvin, Galaxy and Azacca hops creating delicious fruit notes on the aroma and flavor.

Our session IPA brewed with Idaho 007 hops. Notes of tangerine, pineapple, and apricot. Easy-drinking, low ABV, but still super flavorful.

The beer formerly known as Licence to Swill has been given a new license on life as Low Voltage. It’s a 5.2 percenter brewed with an electrifying combination of Idaho 007, Azacca, and Mosaic hops. This crushable hop juice includes a supporting malt bill of flaked oats, light crystal, plus a fair amount of wheat.

“We’ve played around with a few hop combinations and really like this blend. We think it makes for an interesting hop profile that’s also super sessionable” says Pete Langheinrich, head brewer. “It’s got a fantastic aroma and fruity flavors of tangerine, apricot, and pineapple.”

Brighten up your winter with Low Voltage.

Release on draft on 12/16/16 at 5 p.m. A double dry-hopped Mosaic Pale with mango puree. The floral, earthy Mosaic hops balance and accentuate the juicy fruit aroma and flavor. Take a tropical vacation in December with this crushable, flavorful ale.

 Brewed with over 2 pounds per barrel of toasted black walnuts, a touch of vanilla and milk sugar.  A creamy sweet balance of rich nuttiness, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a proper Stout beer.

What could be better than our delicious coffee milk porter made with cold brew coffee from Mountain Air Roasting? That same beer poured as a smooth and creamy Nitro pint. Draft only at our Coxe Avenue (downtown) location, while it lasts! 

This pub-to-pub collaboration beer with our buddies at Deschutes Brewery was brewed with regional malts from Asheville’s Riverbend Malt House. It’s a cool, clean lager with a hint of spice from the rye malt and a slightly unusual hop profile. It’s hopped with Equinox in lupulin form. This “hop hash” provides a potent high alpha oil content that gives the beer a wonderful aroma but allows the flavors to meld smoothly with the malty backbone.

“This rye bock was a blast to brew–both in Asheville and out in Portland,” says Asheville Brewing head brewer Pete Langheinrich. “It was an honor to collaborate with such an amazing brewery on a beer that I absolutely love. Nottoway River is a great post work crusher!”

The Nottoway River is the river that defines part of the boundary line between the great states of North Carolina (home of Asheville Brewing) and Virginia (second home of Deschutes Brewery).

Very limited quantities on draft only.

This traditional-style dark lager is smoothly drinkable and strikes a balance between an English Porter and Russian Imperial Stout.

We conceived this beer to entice the sinner and the saint in each of us, following one simple rule: you can never have too much of a good thing. So we took mountains of Crystal, Wheat and Munich malts and paired them with lots of Cascade hops for an irresistibly wicked beer that’s at once temptingly sweet and scandalously bitter, with a full body and a deep red color. One of our brewpub classics, available intermittently.

RELEASE: 5 p.m. on 1/6/17! The first in Asheville Brewing’s series of small-batch Luchador line-up, Santos El Magnifico is packed with hefty amounts of roasted barley and our own in-house Mole sauce. Our brew team collaborated with our pub chefs to create the Mole, which contains several different varieties of French Broad Chocolate Lounge cacao nibs, toasted cinnamon, a specially-made chili pepper blend, and additional special spices.The chili blend includes a light touch of Carolina Reaper, the world’s hottest pepper, and ancho chillies, for an unforgettable spice kick.

Asheville Brewing Company’s Savior of the Brewniverse American double red ale was brewed to celebrate the campy 80s classic movie Flash Gordon. The movie will be shown at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 14, at our North Asheville theater. Tickets are $3 per person, and they are available now.

We brewed this beer with classic American hops and All-American grown malt. Comet hops, plus a couple different caramel malts give this red ale creamy undertones to complement the citrus forward flavor and aroma. Substantial dry-hopping balances and dries out the sweetness of Savior of the Brewniverse, which clocks in at 7.3% ABV.

September is 80s Movie Month at Asheville Pizza and Brewing. We started the month with a showing of Better Off Dead. After Flash Gordon, come out for The Dark Crystal on September 21, and our final movie of the series, comedic masterpiece Beetlejuice on September 28. Each movie has its own in-house crafted brew. We crowdsourced names for the beers representing each movie from our fans on social media. All tickets for all shows are $3, and they are currently available at our 675 Merrimon Avenue location.

Asheville Brewing is kicking off National Comedy Month (April) on March 28 (almost April) with a showing of cult comedy classic “Shaun of the Dead” at our Merrimon Avenue movie theater. We will release a special, small batch beer to drink while you’re watching the movie.

Shaun of the Red Ale is a traditional Irish Red conditioned with Blood Orange puree. It will be released at both our North and Downtown locations on Tuesday, March 28, at 5 p.m. The movie starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sell now.

Shaun of the Red is brewed with Ireland grown barley and English Crystal malt with a touch of malted oats for a creamy flavor. It offers a light caramel and apple aroma to complement the toasty malt body, and finishes with a slight fruitiness from the English yeast. Hopped with Sylva hops, a unique hop that adds a bit of woodiness to the flavor and balances the malt profile, this beer provides easy-drinking at 5.3% ABV.

Asheville Brewing’s 2020 Sister Bad Habit is a session IPA brewed with white grape juice.  The fifth annual release of this special beer celebrates our favorite LaZoom character- Sister Bad Habit.  This slightly sweet, easy-drinking beer finishes dry, with lots of fruity aroma along the way.

Asheville Brewing Company’s 2018 Sister Bad Habit Beer is a session IPA brewed with white grape juice. The fourth annual release of this special beer celebrates our favorite LaZoom character–Sister Bad Habit. This slightly sweet, easy-drinking beer finishes dry, with lots of fruity aroma along the way.

Sister Bad Habit  will be released on draft at both Asheville Brewing’s North Asheville and downtown brew pubs at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 17. That same evening, look for a LaZoom bus filled with brewers and friends of the brewery–all dressed in nun habits.

Lightly fruity Belgian Saison with just a touch of tartness.

Asheville Brewing Company will release a special brew named for local rock band Stump Mutts on the Fourth of July, to celebrate all-American local beer, music, and fun. Stump Mutts Session IPA, brewed with pineapple and mango puree and a dose of milk sugar, is “a tropical punch of a beer,” says head brewer Pete Langheinrich. At 5 percent ABV, Stump Mutts is perfect for summer drinking with a mild sessionable bitterness and lots of fruity notes.

The beer will be available on draft and in very limited quantities of 22-ounce bottles at Asheville Brewing’s downtown and North Asheville locations starting at 5 p.m. on July 4, 2017. The Stump Mutts will play a free acoustic set on Asheville Brewing’s Coxe Ave patio, starting at 7 p.m. on July 4. Come by for a beer and original rock music before the downtown fireworks.

In honor of National Comedy Month (April), Asheville Brewing is showing a series of classic comedies combined with special, small batch beer releases to provide the perfect drinking accompaniment for each movie.

In conjunction with the special showing of the cult classic, Napoleon Dynamite, Asheville Brewing will release a special beer, Tater Tart Saison. The movie will take place at our Merrimon Avenue movie theater on Thursday, April 27, at 7 p.m. The beer will be released on draft the same day at 5 p.m. at our downtown and north locations.

Tater Tart Saison is brewed with a Belgian yeast blend and a gentle malt bill of Pilsner, Vienna, and flaked wheat. It’s hopped with Centennial, Lemondrop, and Citra and then dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin giving it a complex yet delicate aroma.

“This beer has a nice balance between tart, a touch of belgian character and delicious hoppiness,” says Asheville Brewing head brewer Pete Langheinrich. “There’s just enough pucker.”

This unfiltered, fruit-forward IPA has assertive hop notes and a fluffy body. Select aromatic hops, including Galaxy, Citra, and Hallertau Blanc give this beer grape and stone fruit aromas and flavor. That’s balanced by a light, but bready malt bill, which includes toasted flaked and naked golden oats. At 7.4% ABV, this IPA can creep up on you. It’s gonna be a little hazy, y’all. Beware; you may make bad choices drinking this beer—such as jumping into a freezing cold swimming pool with someone who is not your wife.

This beer was brewed in celebration of the screening of National Lampoon’s Vacation  for our annual April Comedy Movie Month series at our Merrimon Avenue movie theater.  We show a different classic comedy movie each week, create a brand new beer for each movie, then let the public suggest names for the beers with our Head Brewer picking the winning name.

We brewed up a batch of West Coast Pale Ale with the very good folks over at Hillman Beer. Hopped in the kettle and after fermentation with classic American Cascade, Columbus and Centennial hops this beer is a nod to the liquids that inspired us to get into brewing. Grab a pint of this bright citrusy beer at your favorite Hillman and Asheville Brewing taprooms!

Our collaboration with our friends at Woodfin’s Zillicoah Beer is a Brett IPA.  The second half of a batch brewed with Zillicoah months ago was aged on a mixed culture of brettanomyces and microbes that passed on some delicious fruit-forward farmhouse flavor and aroma.  This brewery favorite is dry and supremely refreshing.