Beer City, USA

Day 147 – I love Asheville. I’m a conservative who loves Austin, Key West and San Francisco too. Asheville is a southern mountain version of those liberal bastions.

I just stumbled across an amazing fact that has me pumped. Asheville, NC has been rated “Beer City, USA” the last two years because of the large number of microbreweries within the city. From what I hear, those microbreweries are cranking out some seriously amazing beer.

In about 30 minutes Elizabeth and I are leaving with our friends Michael and Johnna from Columbia and making the 2 1/2 hour drive to Beer City. Our goal is to hit 10 microbrewaries today.

Yep, that’s a lot of beer.

Here are the planned stops:

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Some of these are breweries, some are pubs that brew their own beer and some are bars with amazing local beers on tap. I’m most excited about Pisgah, Wedge and OysterHouse.

I can’t wait to give you a run down.

I’ll be Oinking the entire trip, so check it out here.

- Wesley Donehue