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What to eat, drink and do in Asheville from restaurants to cocktail bars to breweries to festivals.

New menu items we have our eyes on, the favorite things we ate last month, and a whole slew of new restaurant openings.

Starting in the Spring of 2011, I merrily began a project I was naïvely underestimating, blithely ignorant of how big it would turn out to be. Workman Publishing had given me two years to write The Beer Bible,

The Craft Brewers Conference is an annual event that brings brewers from around the world into a selected city for a few days of education, equipment buying, and camaraderie. Brewers have also been using the occasion to get together in advance to create and then release collaboration beers. One of the most ambitious – at

Craft beer enthusiasts, get ready to mark your calendars for the most exciting event of the summer! The Whale Invitational Craft Beer Festival is making its debut in Asheville, North Carolina, to showcase the best beers in the world. The Whale is celebrating its 5th anniversary by throwing an extraordinary party that will undoubtedly live up to their high-caliber reputation. Don’t sleep on this one!

And what the heck is a tree beer?

A couple of weeks ago, Jester King’s head brewer Garrett Crowell made an astonishing proclamation. The brewery has made a decision to switch to green bottles, not in spite of the danger it poses to beer, but because of it. “My pursuit of the use of green bottles stems mostly from the character of all

From a prickly pear and ginger sour to a light, drinkable stout, we identified the beers perfect for this stormy spring weather.

The new party VIPs are beer-drinking goats, beer-toting donkeys, and the occasional giraffe.

AUSTIN — When my girlfriend, Navina Bhatkar, lived up in Colorado, she loved going to brunch on the weekends. For the longest time, she wanted to have a full brunch