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Foothills & Wicked Weed Create “Batch 69”

Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC)  and Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem) have teamed up to create a collaboration dubbed Batch 69. The beer is Wicked Weed’s first collaboration with another brewery. Wicked Weed founder Walt Dickinson was contemplating Continue Reading →

Foothills and Wicked Weed Collaborate

Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem, NC) and Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC) are spending the day collaborating. Details are forthcoming on what the brew is.. but we bet there is a barrel involved.

Not familiar with one of Asheville’s newest breweries? Check out Continue Reading →

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Wicked Weed Black Angel, aged in bourbon with cherries

Wicked Weed Black Angel was the brewery’s second bottle release, just behind Serenity. This upcoming release is a black sour ale aged in bourbon barrels with cherries. Officially the first “Angel” in a series of Wicked Weed Angel releases.

Ages ago, the nefarious Bacilli the Black resurfaced from darkness and infected the Great Angel of Light with an obsidian parasite. A great darkness took over the Angel as she shed her luminous spirit. No longer fit for the heavens, she was exiled to the Woods of Obscurity. With sustenance from the fruit of the wood, the Angel began to forge virtue from the evil that had infected her. After her long respite, she emerged from the wood with a profound new strength and cast Bacilli the Black back into great darkness. Now, known as the Black Angel, she spends her days between two worlds nourishing all who drink…

Wicked Weed Black Angel is available in 500 milliliter bottles, intermittently throughout the year.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cherries. Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 500ml Bottles. Intermittent release.

6.6% ABV

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Wicked Weed & New Belgium Brett India Pale Ale

Wicked Weed & New Belgium Brett India Pale Ale

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Wicked Weed Teams Up With Local Hop Farm (PICS)

Wicked Weed Hop 3Wicked Weed Brewing recently purchased 85 lbs of fresh hops from  OBJoyful hop farm in South Asheville.  These ‘wet hops’ will kick off a series of fresh hop beers that will debut on August 1st. The brewery is literally going from hop farm to kettle the same day.

Walt Dickinson, head of brewing operations for Wicked Weed, says its a good thing they aren’t distributing right now. It gives them the freedom to brew when the hops are ready. The pictures below are from yesterday’s hop harvest. [Press]

 

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Foothills & Wicked Weed Create “Batch 69”

Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC)  and Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem) have teamed up to create a collaboration dubbed Batch 69. The beer is Wicked Weed’s first collaboration with another brewery. Wicked Weed founder Walt Dickinson was contemplating brewing something special to brew for Asheville Beer Week (May 25th-June 1st). An admiration for the established and creative Foothills Brewing prompted a phone call to T.L. Adkisson, Foothills’ head brewer.

The two breweries combined Wicked Weed’s Freak Double IPA and Foothills Sexual Chocolate to make Batch 69. 

As Dickinson puts it, “It’s ideally going to be a drier beer, but with a lot of chocolate complexity, with a nice, bright, citrus finish on it.” Adds Adkisson, “the beer’s designed to have a chocolate profile, but tilt heavily toward an orange, almost tangerine flavor.”

The name? Dirty? No. Purely coincidental. It was the 69th batch of beer brewed at Wicked Weed. Batch 69 uses Guatemalan organic cacao nibs were hand-roasted by French Broad Chocolate in Asheville especially for this beer.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cocoa Nibs. Blended w/ Imperial IPA)
Hops: Simcoe, Citra, Amarillo
Availability: Draft only, Asheville Beer Week, 2013.

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
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Foothills and Wicked Weed Collaborate

Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem, NC) and Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC) are spending the day collaborating. Details are forthcoming on what the brew is.. but we bet there is a barrel involved.

Not familiar with one of Asheville’s newest breweries? Check out this poorly edited Beer Street Journal video…

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Meet The Wicked Weed Brewing Team [VIDEO]

Today, Wicked Weed Brewing Co. joins the Asheville, North Carolina brewing scene. The brainchild of Walt Dickinson, Luke Dickinson and Ryan Guthy. The 15 barrel brewhouse is built into an old gas station and will feature a tasting room and full restaurant upstairs. Expect Belgian style ales, and west coast American ales. Don’t forget the barrel aged beers coming soon.  What’s in a name? That comes from a quote from King Henry VIII”“Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed”. He said that in 1519. 500 years later, those words are immortalized in Asheville.

Launch beers include Zealot IPA, Heresy Brown Ale, Freak Double IPA, and Tyranny Hoppy Red Ale. Small Batch Series and Wicked Wood Series Beers are forthcoming.  Doors open at 5 pm today.

Wicked Weed Brewing
91 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
@WickedWeedBeer

Ed Note: Sorry for the abrupt ending. A compressor cut on at the last minute, as this was filmed during final construction… 

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