Opened in June 2023, the Mills River Taproom is Appalachian Mountain Brewery’s first location outside of Boone, NC, and is located near the entrance to Pisgah National Forest. Appalachian Mountain Brewery opened their original location in Boone in 2013 — at the time, the only brewery there — and quickly began winning awards for their brews. More recently, the began crafting their own hard ciders and hard sweet tea. Excited to join the burgeoning craft beer community found in Mills River, NC, AMB focuses on a sustainable brewing process, and donates spent grain used in the brewing process to local farms to be used for livestock feed. At their brand-new tasting room, you will find a 32-beer tap-list that showcases unique small-batch beers, ciders, seltzers, and a curated cocktail list, plus a food menu that showcases local ingredients and regional cuisine. The brewery plans to host a diverse range of year-round event programming community including live music, group runs and bike rides, and family-friendly events. Find the menu here!
3,000 sq-feet taproom and 4,000 sq-foot outdoor beer garden
Hendersonville’s Blue Door Bottle Shop is the place to go to find rare beers from around the world to take home as well as enjoy a pint at their beer hall, which has 20 rotating taps. What makes this spot unique is the combination of the great beer selection (more than 300 options), the welcoming feel, the knowledgeable staff, the great, downtown location, and that it is a relatively quiet spot — no live music here, just people who are passionate about their beer. Dogs welcome. Open 7 days per week.
Originally a 1950’s gas station, the Blue Ridge Beer Garden has completely reimagined this space, turning it into a modern-day filling station of a different kind. Boasting 25 beers and ciders on tap, plus an array of wine, seltzers, domestics, craft beer, and non-alcohol options, there is something for everyone’s palate and preference. The beer garden will also serve as the new home of HVL Pedal and Brews, Hendersonville’s first and only pubcycle.
Opened in late 2023, Boodas Brewing Company is one of Hendersonville’s few brew pubs that boasts its own brick-and-mortar kitchen. Hot off the heels of opening, Boodas currently offers 24 taps – all NC brews – that include both its own craft beer and guest taps. The kitchen offers a variety of flavors, everything from burgers and nachos to a charcuterie board and loaded potatoes! Something for every taste. Located in downtown Hendersonville, steps from the Welcome Center and soon-to-open Ecusta Trail, Boodas Brewing Co has parking and a covered outdoor patio that is pet-friendly.
Insider Tip: Want to know the story behind the interesting name? Owner, Jeff Hughes was nicknamed “Booda” by his wife back when they were high school sweethearts. Booda and his wife Erin fell in love with Hendersonville when they started bringing their daughter here for summer camp.
Dry Falls Brewing Co. started out as a dream between father and son while sitting in a brewery on family vacation. Romanticizing the idea while drinking a flight of twenty-four different brews, Jeff and Evan found their next father/son hobby.
Guidon Brewing Co. is a veteran, American, German, and family owned and operated brewery and taproom, offering authentic German style beers and Gemütlichkeit (a German word that loosely translates to “a sense of belonging”). In addition to their rotating selection of beers and liquor they often have live music, special events, and food trucks or their own kitchen, “The Chow Hall,” is open.
Open Tuesday – Sunday
Dog-friendly
Now operates a 2nd tasting room, located at Elijah Mountain Gem Mine, 2120 Brevard Rd, Hendersonville, NC.
Hoopers Creek Wine Market is a family run business consisting of Josh, Mollie, their toddler Theo and newborn Oliver. They take pride in their collection of natural, low intervention, small family farmed wines, carefully curating every bottle they have in stock. Hoopers Creek Wine Market isn’t just here to sell wine; it’s here to
share the unique stories behind each vineyard and the remarkable individuals who crafted these exceptional wines.
Josh’s passion for wine all started after receiving his Bachelor’s degree in quantitative geoscience at Appalachian State University, and subsequently going on his two month geology field camp trip backpacking all over Italy. While in Perugia, Assisi and Montefalco particularly, Josh fell in love with the table wine culture of Italy, and most importantly relating wine’s terroir to his expertise in geology. His passion lies in the ability to taste a time and place through a wine, which translates to a wine’s vintage and appellation/region. Mollie fell in love with wine as a means of travel, experiencing a region and culture through each bottle.
Located at the center of Appalachian Wine Country, Hoopers Creek Wine Market loves putting local wine, cider, mead and beer in context next to options from around the world. Glasses are always available to be enjoyed on premise along with ‘apertivo’ bites.
The brewery started in a small strip mall location in Arden, NC where Joey brewed and PJ saw to the taproom and distribution. After a few years the Brewery was ready for expansion and found a beautiful piece of land in the town the company was named after and construction commenced on a new 8,600 sq ft brewing facility and taproom. Mills River Brewing Co. features Big Creek amber ale, Middle Fork Mosaic IPA and Laurel Creek ESB, that honor the local trails and natural landmarks.
In the heart of downtown Hendersonville, the expanding Oklawaha Brewing is a craft beer lover’s destination. This nano-brewery and taproom specializes in hop-forward IPAs, crisp lagers, and locally fruited sours, constantly innovating to bring a new and exciting beer experience. Beyond beer, Oklawaha Brewing regularly offers live music, trivia nights and much more. Home to the Sunflower Kitchen, a café run by the Hendersonville Co-op that offers a variety of made-to-order burgers, sandwiches, bowls and more.
The Old Haywood Filling Station was originally Gasperson’s Grocery & gas station back in 1958, when the surrounding area was mostly farmland. This is the spot where neighbors would fill up their trucks, fill up themselves with groceries, and just socialize with friends during a quick break from their hard work on the farm.
Today, our mission is to again create an environment where our neighbors can fill up on coffee, tea, beer, wine, or food from our food trucks, take a break from life, catch up with neighbors, and meet new friends.
The Old Haywood Filling Station is more than just a coffee, beer, and wine venue. It’s a place where people can come together, share ideas, and create meaningful connections. We believe that every cup of coffee or glass of your favorite beverage has the power to bring people closer, and we strive to create an environment that fosters community and inclusivity.
We work hard to find the very best products available to enhance your experience. We’ll be rotating our beer and wine selections frequently, so come back often to enjoy our latest finds. We’ll also carry a variety of tasty non-alcoholic options (including THC/CBD drinks) and we’ll feature daily food trucks to satisfy your hunger.
Sideways Brewery offers an ever-changing menu of small-batch artisan ales and handcrafted hard jun kombucha using seasonal specialty ingredients that are grown on the farm. The tasting room pours directly from bottles for guided tastings — you won’t find taps here! Beer is sold by the glass or bottle. Guests may walk the farm to see beer ingredients growing, view farm animals grazing, or pick their own flowers. Sideways Farm & Brewery makes a beautiful setting for marriage proposals, elopements, intimate weddings, or private farm-to-table dinners and events.
Open Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Food trucks on-site
Offers private group tours of the brewery & farm tours
Sells U-pick flowers
“Sunday Market” farmers market open on the first Sunday of every month (seasonally, May-October)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has set the standard for artisan brewers worldwide as a winner of numerous awards for a wide variety of beers and ales, including the legendary Pale Ale. Their east coast brewing, bottling and distribution location is in Mills River, set on 200 wooded acres and located just 10 miles from downtown Hendersonville, south of Asheville. The Taproom offers 20+ beers on tap. The restaurant serves farm-to-table dishes that are mainly sourced locally.
5 different guided tours of the brewery and tastings are offered 7 days per week, reservations must be booked online (tours fill up quickly)
Self-guided tours of the brewing facility are available (no reservations required)
Southern Appalachian Brewery is a local micro brewery located, one block from downtown Hendersonville. The tasting room is family and dog friendly serving beer, wine, soda and bottled water for non-drinkers and the under 21′s. They offer craft brewed ales including: Copperhead Amber, Black Bear Stout, and an IPA s well as a variety of seasonal, barrel-aged, and Belgian inspired wild and sour ales.
The brewery hosts nightly live music, monthly art shows, special events and often has a food truck on-site.
With a rotating, seasonal selection of taps, indoor area and outdoor beer garden, there is lots of space to spread out here. Enjoy food from the Trailside Table and visiting, local food trucks (Monday and Tuesdays) and frequent live music. Open 7 days a week. Space available for group events. Trailside Brewing is situated in the newly refurbished Lennox Station, which was built in 1915 and over the years, served as a hosiery mill, a paper box company and the original location of the Hendersonville Lowes. The building, by necessity for the mill, sat on railroad lines — lines that are currently being transformed into a public Greenway called the Ecusta Trail — which is exactly where the brewery takes its name from.
