Our Brew Blog & News

Holiday Schedule/ Upcoming Events 0

Happy Spring everyone! First of all, we will be closed Memorial Day.

However, on Memorial Day, we will be celebrating out at Catawba Brewing's Biltmore Village tasting room. They're having a Free BBQ event from about 4-9pm and we'll be doing an onsite brew. Come join us for some fun and brews!

Our next Brewers Social Evening is Wednesday the 27th from 6-8pm. As always, we'll be serving you some pizza pies from Asheville Pizza. We'd love to have you join us so we can mingle over a few tasty beverages. If you have some homebrew to share, please label it and bring it. The more the merrier! 

Have a safe and fun-filled holiday weekend!

Free Class/ New Merch/ Specials! 0

Several things happening as we approach Beer Week here in Beer City, USA (we all know it's not actually Grand Rapids).

First on deck, we've got our free beginner/intermediate brewing class coming up on Sunday May 17th. No purchase is necessary, but attendees are encouraged to have fun, help themselves to samples of last month's brew (our Dunkelweiss), and maybe learn a tad bit about how easy it is to make awesome beer at home with minimal equipment and time. Forget your grandpappy's "homebrew;" things have come a long way!!! We run our class from noon until 2ish. NO registration is required. Feel free to bring friends and family and perhaps a foldable chair; we've only got a few available and sometimes we pack the parking lot!

New Merch in da house! Well, there's kind of a lot, so I'll save some of it for later, or you can swing by to see what's up. Very exciting are the new Brewery Series kits from BrewCraft. BC partnered up with a few breweries across the country to make legit clones of famous beers. These clones were done in collaboration with the breweries themselves! Currently in stock are three offerings from Rogue: Hazelnut Brown Nectar, Brutal IPA, and of course Dead Guy! (We don't currently have these on the website, so call if interested in placing an online order).

We've also brought in a lot of new wines, including kits from RJ Spagnels (you asked for them, so we got 'em!!!). 

Specials... We've got a limited supply of whole leaf hops on special right now; both are 2012 crop, but still in good shape. We've got 1oz packages of Centennial for only $0.75 apiece and whole pounds of Palisade for $5.00! Awww yeah. 

Also, stay tuned for upcoming events. We have a Brewers Social Evening coming up in one week (the 27th) as well as serving and judging at Just Brew It and then a Memorial Day brew and bbq at Catawba Brewing in Biltmore Village. Hooray for awesomeness!

Big Brew Day/All-grain Class!!! 0

May 2nd is National Homebrew Day and every year the American Homebrewers Association (AHA- remember, AHA members get 10% off on all in-store purchases!) organizes the Big Brew Day, where homebrewers across the country brew together. This coincides with our free monthly all-grain class, so we're going to make this one a bit more special.

We are inviting any and all all-grain brewers to come bring their equipment and set up alongside us to brew. This will be great both for brewers and spectators; we'll all be able to swap tips and tricks and see differences in processes as well as brewing setups!

As always, we'll be serving last month's brew- a dunkelweiss. While the event is open to all, regardless of age, we can clearly only serve beer to those ages 21+. Sorry; we don't make the laws. We will start the brew day at 1:30 pm. No equipment will be provided, so make sure to bring your own burners, pots, chairs for sittin' yer caboose on, etc. See you soon!!!