Asheville Brewery Walking Tour: 3 Breweries & 10 Beer Samples

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Duration3h 15m

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Walk Three Breweries, Taste Ten Beers, Learn from a Beer Expert

You meet a Cicerone certified guide at Hi-Wire Brewing and visit three local breweries—Hi-Wire, Twin Leaf, and Burial Beer—sampling ten different beers along the way. You'll see the production floor at Twin Leaf, hear the brewing history from someone who knows it, and finish with a real understanding of what makes Asheville's beer culture distinct. The tour is downtown, walkable, and takes a few hours.

3h 15m

Step-by-step itinerary

Guided brewery tour in Asheville

Meet guide at Hi-Wire Brewing
Sample beers and learn brewing ingredients
Visit Twin Leaf Brewery production area
Sample beers and learn brewing process
Go to Burial Beer brewery
Sample beers and hear brewery history

The Experience

The sun hits the brick facades of downtown Asheville as your guide meets you at Hi-Wire Brewing's entrance. You step inside and the smell of grain and fermentation fills the air—this is where the tour begins, not with a lecture, but with a glass in your hand and a question: what makes this beer taste the way it does? Your Cicerone certified guide walks you through the ingredients, the process, the story of how Hi-Wire became one of Asheville's fastest-growing breweries. You're not just tasting; you're learning to taste.

From Hi-Wire, the group moves to Twin Leaf Brewery, where the real access kicks in. You walk behind the scenes into the production area—the kind of place most visitors never see. The guide explains grain to glass, and you watch the equipment that turns raw ingredients into the beer in your hand. It's the difference between knowing how beer is made and standing in the room where it happens. Twin Leaf is smaller, more intimate, and the samples keep coming. By now you're three stops in, six beers down, and the guide is answering questions that only come once you've actually tasted the difference between styles.

The final stop is Burial Beer, one of the most popular breweries in the Southeast. The story here is different—how a small operation grew into an industry leader. You're tasting their flagship beers, hearing about their philosophy, and by the end of the tour you've sampled ten different beers across three breweries, each one chosen to show you something different about Asheville's beer scene. The whole thing takes a few hours, and you finish knowing more about beer than you did when you started, and you've walked the actual streets where these breweries operate. Your guide is certified in beer knowledge, not just trained to point at things—that's the difference National Geographic Traveler and Viator noticed when they ranked these tours among the best in the world.

What’s included

Your tour includes visits to three breweries—Hi-Wire Brewing, Twin Leaf Brewery, and Burial Beer—with a Cicerone certified guide leading the way.
You'll sample ten different beers throughout the stops, get behind-the-scenes access to the production area at Twin Leaf, and hear the local history and brewing stories from someone trained in beer expertise.
Alcoholic beverages are included.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendlyPublic transport nearby

Operated by BREW-ed Brewery Tours

Is this one for you?Right for beer drinkers who want to understand what they're tasting, not just taste it. The guide is certified in beer knowledge, which means the tour goes deeper than a casual walk—expect real learning about brewing, ingredients, and Asheville's beer culture alongside the samples.