Sierra Nevada Brewery coming to Asheville, NC!

http://www.citizen-times.com/articl...evada-Brewing-is-welcomed-to-Henderson-County

Time to pack up everything and apply for a job in Asheville!

Sweet!

Exciting!!!

Pretty cool. Sierra Nevada is a class act. I'd have to imagine the people in NC are thrilled.

Good to hear. They put out some solid brews, glad to see them expanding eastward.

Hopefully they have a policy on their female employees shaving. Never saw so many hairy armpits as I did in Asheville, shudders.

It is so weird that Asheville is this huge brewing mecca on the east coast nowadays.

When I was going to school in NC, Asheville wasn't exactly the first place anyone thought of when they wanted quality beer. Other quality "intoxicants" maybe, but not beer.

About time they announced it, been in the beer news for months.

W00t! That's only about 90 minutes from me!

weirdboy said:

It is so weird that Asheville is this huge brewing mecca on the east coast nowadays.

When I was going to school in NC, Asheville wasn't exactly the first place anyone thought of when they wanted quality beer. Other quality "intoxicants" maybe, but not beer.

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5 hours from me that will be a happy trek............

I heard they were looking to expand to the east coast makes the most sense logistically. Congrats to NC, Sierra Nevada is an awesome brewery.

I wonder if the beers will be slightly different tasting from each brewery CA and NC, it may be a future experiment of mine.

Man, I REALLY wanted them in Knoxville. That was nearly a done deal, then NC came in and lowballed TN right out of the running.

I asked the guy at the last Knoxville brewfest about jobs with SN. He said that unless you have a piece of paper from UCD or Seibel, you would have to volunteer for a VERY long time before you got to play with the toys.

weirdboy said:

It is so weird that Asheville is this huge brewing mecca on the east coast nowadays.

When I was going to school in NC, Asheville wasn't exactly the first place anyone thought of when they wanted quality beer. Other quality "intoxicants" maybe, but not beer.

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You can thank Oscar Wong for a lot of that. Highland makes some of the consistently best beer in the country. I've never had anything from them that I didn't love.

I'm very proud of my home state. I read on beernews I think it was, that they are allowing other local breweries such as Highland to jump in with them in ordering ingredients. This will allow the local guys to get a discount since Sierra orders in such large quantities. That’s a classy move. Grossman has said many times that the local community in the area has been incredible and he wanted to do what he could to say thanks. I’m sure this gesture is the first of many.

^that is really cool of them... I hope they pass some savings onto the customer. highland is so good, but SN is also up there... I'm a hop head.

elvestinkle said:

Time to pack up everything and app...'ve had good beer for quite a while though...

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didn't mean to double post...

I think new belgium is too.. multiple job opportunities!

Yup.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/sierra-nevada-new-belgium-build-new-easterly-breweries-298700/