Best Craft Breweries in Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina — updated August 22, 2026
Four Asheville breweries, ranked by how convincingly their ratings hold up across hundreds or thousands of reviews, from the South Slope to Biltmore Village.
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Asheville's brewing scene is spread across distinct pockets rather than one strip: the South Slope just below downtown, Biltmore Village to the south, and a large east-side campus off Old Charlotte Highway. The four below are the breweries in our research set, ordered by how well their ratings are backed up by the number of people who left them. Two have four-figure review counts, which makes their scores hard to argue with.
1. Burial Beer Co. South Slope Taproom
The most heavily reviewed brewery on this list, and the score has not slipped for it: 4.7 across more than 2,100 reviews is about as settled as a rating gets in Asheville. It sits at 40 Collier Ave, in the middle of the South Slope cluster, which makes it the logical first or last stop on a walking circuit of the neighborhood. Because it is the best-known name here, expect the taproom to be at its busiest on weekend evenings. Check hours and current releases at burialbeer.com before making the trip.
2. Highland Brewing Company
A 4.7 rating over more than 1,600 reviews puts Highland within a rounding error of Burial, and it is the one entry here well outside the downtown core, at 12 Old Charlotte Highway #200 on the east side. That location changes the visit: it is a drive rather than a walk between taprooms, so plan it as a destination in its own right rather than a stop on a crawl. It is listed as a restaurant rather than a bar, which is worth knowing if you want the option of eating where you drink.
3. Hi-Wire Brewing - Biltmore Village
The pick for anyone already spending the day around the Biltmore area, at 2A Huntsman Pl. Its 4.7 rating comes from 407 reviews, a smaller sample than Burial or Highland but large enough to take seriously rather than treat as a promising early read. Being south of downtown, it draws a different crowd than the South Slope taprooms and works well as a stop before or after visiting the village. Hours and the current tap list are posted at hiwirebrewing.com.
4. Green Man Brewery
At 27 Buxton Avenue, Green Man is the other South Slope option, close enough to Burial that visiting both on foot is straightforward. Its 4.5 rating is the lowest here, but it comes from more than 1,000 reviews, so it is a proven number rather than a soft one: a broad, consistent verdict rather than a handful of enthusiasts. Like Highland, it is categorized as a restaurant, so it is a reasonable choice when the group wants a longer sit rather than a quick pour and a move on.
What we left off
Two entries in the previous version were not breweries at all. The Southern Highland Craft Guild's Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Center for Craft on Broadway Street are both craft organizations in the fine-art sense, not beer. Both are worth a visit on their own terms, the Folk Art Center is open daily from 10am to 5pm, but neither belongs on a brewery list. We also dropped Luminosa, a downtown bar on Battery Park Avenue, because nothing in our research confirms it brews its own beer.