New Belgium Begins Brewing Fat Tire in Asheville Brewery
(Asheville, NC) –New Belgium Brewing’s flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale is flowing from their Asheville brewery and heading toward draft lines and cold boxes across the eastern United States. With production ramping up over the next few years, the 500,000 barrel capacity, 127,000 square-foot brewery gives the country’s fourth-largest craft brewer 1.5 million barrels of total capacity.
“This is truly a proud moment for all of us here at New Belgium,” said Christine Perich, New Belgium President and CEO. “Over the last 25 years, we have grown from a basement operation to a state-of-the-art brewery with homes on both sides of the country. So many folks have leaned in and helped along the way, we’d love to just take a moment and raise a glass to say ‘thank you’.”
New Belgium Brewing started in the basement of a Fort Collins, Colorado home in 1991 and this year will mark the company’s 25th anniversary. The Asheville brewery will focus on producing Fat Tire, while also flavor matching test brews for Ranger IPA and 1554 to finish commissioning the Asheville brewery. They will ramp up brands based on demand. The east coast locale minimizes their distribution footprint and enables the brewery to engage with guests in a meaningful way through tastings and tours.
“In my two decades working with New Belgium, Fat Tire has never tasted so satisfying,” said Asheville Brewing Manager Alex Dwoinen, reflecting on the accomplishment. “Sipping Asheville brewed Fat Tire in Asheville will definitely be added as one of my best Fat Tire memories.”
The Asheville Liquid Center tasting room will open May 2, 2016 and brewery tours will begin later this summer. New Belgium will host an August 27, 2016 CeleBEERation in Asheville, marking their 25th anniversary and Asheville opening. Tickets will be available at www.NewBelgium.com this summer.
ABOUT NEW BELGIUM BREWING
New Belgium Brewing, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale and a host of Belgian-inspired beers, is recognized as one of Outside Magazine’s Best Places to Work and one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best Small Businesses. The 100% employee- owned brewery is a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Business as designated by the League of American Bicyclists, and one of World Blu’s most democratic U.S. businesses, and a Certified B Corp. In addition to Fat Tire, New Belgium brews thirteen year-round beers; Citradelic Tangerine IPA, Ranger IPA, Rampant Imperial IPA, Shift Pale Lager, Slow Ride Session IPA, Snapshot Wheat, Sunshine Wheat, 1554 Black Ale, Blue Paddle Pilsner, Abbey Belgian Ale and Trippel and a gluten-reduced line, Glutiny Pale Ale and Glutiny Golden Ale. Learn more at www.NewBelgium.com.
August 21, 2020 @ 8:14 pm
So, I am not sure you are aware that Asheville has a bit of a bear problem. Animal control used to come and get them and take them out to the woodlands when they showed up in town. Now, the say there is no place to take them. So it dawns on me we need a sanctuary somewhere. And I thought why not get all the breweries in Western North Carolina to donate one cent on each beer to create a bear habitat, maybe we could get some land out toward Tennessee, lands cheaper there. We could call it Beer Bear city, put cameras everywhere and folks could pop in quarters or something to watch the bears in local bars, future funding, you see. It would be great publicity, and a good thing to do in general? Just a thought? I am not an organizer or anything, I just hate seeing these bears running around in town, I’d like to see them where they should be, THANKS