“(Vaniman) is visiting from Asheville and we were going hiking today and it started to rain, so I said, ‘We’re going to Oskar Blues,’” Poor said. “Actually, I don’t come all that frequently, but anytime I’ve got a friend or a guest who hasn’t been here, I want to bring them.”
One look at the transformed facility at the back of Mountain Industrial Drive and it’s easy to see why. At any given time, one can find anything from a cornhole tournament or community group bike ride to one of many fundraising events going on at the brewery.
Besides the appeal of a wide variety of hand-crafted beers brewed on premise, visitors to Oskar Blues usually are wowed by the sheer size of the brewing operation, marked by two rows of 200-barrel tanks that now stretch the length of the 30,000-square-foot facility and rise up to the mezzanine where the tasting room resides.
Western North Carolina’s largest brewery – until Sierra Nevada opens shortly – Oskar Blues shipped out 9.2 million cans of beer to 16 states in the first 10 months of this year.
“That,” Marketing Director Anne-Fitten Glenn said, “is a lot of beer.”
A year of growth, community
On Dec. 12, Oskar Blues
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