History

Asheville earned the title Beer City USA four years running from 2009. The local hazy IPA tradition crystallised around Burial Beer Co (founded 2013) and Hi-Wire (2013), both of which shifted the city's focus from English-style ales to West Coast and then New England IPAs. The annual Burial Spirits beer festival is now a national draw.

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Yield 20Hands-on 5 hrTotal 336 hrDifficulty Advanced

Ingredients

  • 4kg American 2-row malt
  • 500g flaked oats
  • 300g flaked wheat
  • 200g Munich malt
  • Bittering hops: 30g Magnum at 60-minute boil
  • Late kettle: 60g Citra at 10 minutes left
  • Whirlpool: 80g Citra and 80g Galaxy at 80C for 20 minutes after flame-out
  • Dry hop 1: 80g Citra and 80g Galaxy in fermenter at high krausen
  • Dry hop 2: 80g Citra and 80g Mosaic in fermenter at end of fermentation
  • Yeast: London Ale III (Wyeast 1318) or Imperial A38 Juice
  • Water: low calcium, very high chloride profile (around 150 ppm Cl, 50 ppm SO4)

Method

  1. Mash crushed grains at 67C for 60 minutes in 16 litres of brewing water. Sparge with 76C water to collect 25 litres of wort.
  2. Boil for 60 minutes. Add Magnum at the start. Add Citra at 10 minutes left.
  3. At flame-out, drop temperature to 80C, add whirlpool Citra and Galaxy, steep 20 minutes.
  4. Chill rapidly to 18C. Transfer to a sanitised fermenter with oxygen, pitch yeast.
  5. Ferment at 19C for 36 hours, then drop yeast and add the first dry-hop charge at high krausen (3 days in).
  6. After 7 days total fermentation, add the second dry-hop charge. Hold at 19C for 3 more days.
  7. Soft cold-crash to 4C (not the harsh 1C of West Coast beers) for 24 hours. Avoid oxygen contact.
  8. Keg with carbonation at 2.5 vol CO2; force-carbonate or use a closed-loop transfer.
  9. Drink within 4 weeks; hazy IPA is at its peak in the first month and degrades quickly with light and oxygen.

Tip from the editors. Oxygen is the killer for hazy IPA; transferring through closed lines or using a spunding valve is what separates a soft, juicy Asheville hazy from a quickly-oxidised home version that turns muddy and harsh.

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Asheville Hazy IPA in Asheville

Burial Beer Co ★ 4.8

$$ BrewerySaisons, IPAs, lagers, mixed-fermentationSouth Slope

Burial Beer Co opened on Collier Avenue in 2013 and is now one of Asheville's defining South Slope breweries, with Forestry Camp as its sister project.

TipThe Forestry Camp restaurant on Shelburne Road is the Burial sister project; ride share between South Slope and the Forestry Camp barrel cellar.

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Hi-Wire Brewing South Slope ★ 4.6

$$ BrewerySours, wild ales, taproom exclusivesSouth Slope

Hi-Wire's original South Slope brewhouse on Hilliard Avenue, the first of three Asheville locations. Dedicated to award-winning sours, wild ales and one-off.

TipSouth Slope is the mural-covered art-leaning sour room. Bring your own food; the brewery accepts outside take-out.

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Wicked Weed Brewpub ★ 4.4

$$ BreweryIPAs, lagers, hop-forwardDowntown

Wicked Weed's flagship Brewpub on Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville opened in 2012. Hop-forward IPAs and lagers, a full-service restaurant, the original.

TipWalk-up bar takes the rotating taps. The downstairs cellar has private booths; reserve through the operator site.

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Highland Brewing Company ★ 4.5

$$ BreweryScottish ales, IPAs, lagersEast Asheville

Highland Brewing Company on Old Charlotte Highway in East Asheville opened in 1994 as Asheville's first craft brewery. A 40-acre campus with 18-hole disc.

TipFree tours run weekends, check the operator site. The S and W Market downtown taproom is the sister location.

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Green Man Brewery ★ 4.7

$$ BreweryBritish-style ales, ESBs, portersSouth Slope

Green Man Brewery opened on Buxton Avenue in 1997 as the first brewery on what became the South Slope. British-style ales out of two adjacent rooms: Dirty.

TipDirty Jack's at 23 Buxton runs the British pub format with darts and football. The Mansion's third-floor patio takes the views.

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Archetype Brewing West Asheville ★ 4.2

$$ BreweryBelgian, mixed-culture, complex modernWest Asheville

Archetype Brewing's West Asheville production brewery on Haywood Road runs a 10-barrel brewhouse with a complex, mindful, Belgian-leaning modern lineup.

TipFamily-friendly taproom. The downtown Tap Lounge at 174 Broadway Street is the sister venue with music nights.

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