Hi-Wire Brewing South Slope is a brewery in South Slope, Asheville.
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.
Tip: South Slope is the mural-covered art-leaning sour room. Bring your own food; the brewery accepts outside take-out.
Address: 197 Hilliard Ave, Asheville, NC 28801
Hi-Wire's 27,000-square-foot Big Top production brewery and taproom in Biltmore Village opened in 2015. The largest of the three Hi-Wire Asheville locations.
Tip: Family-friendly with a large lawn and yard games. Food trucks rotate Wed-Sun; check the operator calendar.
Hi-Wire's RAD Beer Garden on Lyman Street is the third Asheville location, an outdoor beer garden built from up-cycled shipping containers covered in murals.
Tip: Outdoor-first; rainy days move under the container roof. Food trucks rotate weekends.
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.
Tip: Free tours run weekends, check the operator site. The S and W Market downtown taproom is the sister location.
Wedge Brewing's Wedge Studios taproom on Paynes Way in the River Arts District opened in 2008. Beers travel through Belgian, German and American ale.
Tip: The Foundy Street brewing space, destroyed by Helene 2024, reopened October 2025 with a rebuilt beer garden.
New Belgium Brewing's Asheville campus on Craven Street opened in 2016 as the Colorado Fat Tire brewery's second campus, 18 acres on the French Broad.
Tip: 90-minute brewery tours run free with reservation; tours leave every half hour from the Liquid Center.
Sierra Nevada's East Coast brewery campus in Mills River opened in 2014, 15 miles south of Asheville. Pale Ale and Hazy Little Thing roll off the line;.
Tip: Free brewery tours need a reservation; the amphitheater hosts free regional bands every Sat-Sun. Drive only; no public transit.
