Karis Roberts, ABA Executive Director For the average beer drinker, the Asheville Brewers Alliance (ABA) is most commonly associated with Asheville Beer Week. But for those within the industry, it has been a vital resource for networking, problem solving, and building a professional community since 2009. Vital during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ABA helped to guide breweries
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A glass of craft beer is more than a drink. The best beer takes several ingredients – grain, hops, yeast, water — and a brewing community. It can bring people together to toast an achievement, drown a sorrow, watch a favorite sports team — or to celebrate a beer week.
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Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks with the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild and Asheville Brewers Alliance about the beer-related bills that made it through Crossover Day at the NC Legislature – mainly, gallon growlers and “social districts.”
Crossover Day passed this month in the North Carolina General Assembly. The deadline essentially determines which bills have a chance of passing this session. And two bills that Beer City, USA and its neighbors in Western North Carolina had its eye on made it through.
The House passed two bills - one which increases the size of growlers to more than a gallon. The other creating “social districts” in the state, which would let cities and municipalities allow drinkers to walk in restricted areas with alcohol. Richard Greene is the executive director of the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild.
It seems like not so long ago, craft beer drinkers thought nothing good could come out of a can. Oskar Blues helped change that notion and started a craft can revolution.
What s a crowler and why do you want one? A portmanteau of can and growler, it s a 32-ounce aluminum vessel that can be filled and sealed with a single compact machine behind the bar.
Archetype Brewing (265 Haywood Road) recently got a crowler machine, and head brewer Erin Jordan said she and her crew often pull random cans for quality control during the filling process. One by one, we ll train each of our beertenders in the execution of precise quality focused crowler filling so we can offer on-demand fills of any on-tap beer we don t already can, while also ensuring the longest shelf life and best preservation of our beers, she said.