Our first beer dinner in Asheville!

Sunny Point Cafe
Tuesday, August 24th
6:30 and 8:30 seatings
$40 per person

MUST have reservations!

On the Table: Housemade pretzel bread served with an assortment of Lusty Monk Mustard and fresh local fruit

Appetizer: Local Sunburst Mountain Trout and brie cake rolled in fresh herbs and served on Mediterranean couscous. Garnished with preserved lemons and served with a hop infused buerre blanc.

Soup or Salad: A salad of marinated heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden topped with Maryland lump crab meat and drizzled with a Heffe Weisen vinaigrette on a bed of peppery arugula. OR A late summer Silver Queen corn bisque topped with heirloom tomato basil confit and garnished with parmesan chips.

Entree: Hickory Nut Gap all natural hormone free T-bone pork chop brined with porter and malt. Smoked with hickory and garden hops and served over a pork belly hash of fingerling potatoes, fresh rosemary, sage, early fall apples and a lemony green bean salad.

Dessert: Bittersweet chocolate molten cake served with organic Guatemalan coffee ice cream. Drizzled with a caramel stout reduction and garnished with sea salt and fresh berries.

And each course will be paired with an Olde Hickory Brewery beer selected to complement and enhance the food, most of which was grown by cafe staff or obtained from Asheville area farms.

Plus a wine expert from Appalachian Vintner and our own brew master will be in attendance! We're really looking forward to this event, but space is limited. TO make reservation call 828.252.0055 and for more information visit the Cafe website at www.sunnypointcafe.com

Cheers!

That's right, Firkin Friday will return to Amos Howards Brew Pub on US Hwy 70 SW in Hickory, NC. next Friday! We'll be delivering a fun little firkin of cask conditioned Nut Brown Ale to the pub on Friday October 30th. They'll tap it right around 6pm, so you might want to be there early - it runs out fast!

Also, Amos Howards would like us to remind you that the next night is their annual Halloween Bash. Specials and contests all night long!

First a belated thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello at the Brew Grass Festival in Asheville, NC this past Saturday. We had a great time, as always, talking with visitors and other brewers alike. Next up, the Charlotte Oktoberfest (www.charlotteoktoberfest.com) which just happens to be the same day as Hickory's Oktoberfest. Don't worry though you'll still find lots of Olde Hickory brews at the Olde Hickory Tap Room during Hickory's festival.

And now to announce... Olde Rip! Olde Rip is our barleywine, aged in Pappy Van Winkle whiskey barrels. The result has a nice alcohol warmth and depth to it. It's not quite ready yet, but will be at both our locations (check Locations) very soon. Sorry to say, as of right now we have no plans to bottle this limited production brew. It'll be worth a trip though!

A ton of news for y’all today

We’ve started making our Christmas Ale and it’s getting exciting! It should be ready and at the Olde Hickory Tap Room and Amos Howards by Thanksgiving. A local favorite, get it while you can as it’s usually gone by New Years.

Long time favorites Table Rock Pale Ale, Hefeweizen and Piedmont Pilsner will soon be bottled for the first time. Once the labels come back from the printers we’ll be ready to go. You’ll be able to find them at the Olde Hickory Tap Room and Amos Howards. Other locations? Maybe...

We’ll be at the Brew Grass Festival in Asheville on September 19th. Looks like tickets are sold out, but check www.brewgrassfestival.com for more information. For all you lucky ticket holders – stop by and say hi!

And we’ve delivered Dopplebock to the Olde Hickory Tap Room. Dopple Bock is German meaning “Double Bock” or double strength beer. It is a high-gravity lager beer at 9% alcohol by volume. Our Dopplebock would best be described as a Lager version of a Porter. It is black in color, with a red tinge. It is a malty beer with notes of raisins and other dark stone fruit coupled with a warming ethanol complexity. The body is full and the finish lingers.

Cheers!

Welcome to the Olde Hickory Brewery’s first blog and brand new website! Some of you may remember the Brewery’s first site back in 1999. Of course, it’s not too hard to remember it - the same site was still around last week in August of 2009. Well, we were busy making great beer, so you can’t blame us too much for being a little slow to update the site.

We’ve finally caught up, and we think you’ll like the changes. Of course we have information about our current brews, about the Brewery itself and how the beer is made. You’ll also find our contact information and a contact form so that you can let us know what you like, need or want from the site. Check out the “Get the Beer” page to find out where our beer can be purchased, and the “Locations” page to learn more about our two restaurants.

The new highlight of the site is this blog. Bookmark this page or add us to your favorite RSS feed reader (the links are on the left, near the bottom of the page) for all the latest news about new and seasonal beers, festivals, awards, events at our restaurants and more! And for our first official announcement - our Nut Brown Ale, which has been on hiatus, will return in the near future! We'll let everyone exactly when and where they can find it right here, so check back soon!