Long Haul Brewing Co. presentsRiver Arts District · Asheville, N.C.Print No. 418 / 500

Long Haul Brewing, a brewery and taproom in Asheville

Hazy IPAs, a smoked porter and one honest pilsner, brewed slow on a seven-barrel kit in a 1951 freight depot by the French Broad River.

  • 06Beers in cans
  • 14Lines on draft
  • 07Food trucks a week
  • SatTours, 1 & 3 pm
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On tap now · six in cans

Tonight’s lineup

Six in cans, eight more on draft at the bar. Tap a can to bring it up front.

Also pouring, draft only

  • Freight Scale Kölsch4.6
  • Cab Over Helles4.8
  • Bobtail Brown5.3
  • Pisgah Pale5.6
  • Overnight Oat Stout, nitro6.2
  • Sawtooth Rye IPA6.9
  • Jake Brake Double IPA8.5
  • Guest cider, Hendersonville6.0

  1. No. 01 / 06Hazy IPAFlagship

    Switchback

    ABV
    6.8%
    IBU
    40
    Hops
    Citra, Mosaic, Strata

    Mango skin, orange pith and a little pine at the top of the climb. Double dry-hopped, with oats for the soft shoulders. The one we brewed first and still brew most.

    16 oz pour$74-pack to go$17

  2. No. 02 / 06Smoked Baltic porterWinter run

    Night Freight

    ABV
    7.4%
    IBU
    32
    Malt
    Beechwood-smoked, chocolate

    Campfire, black cherry and cold-brew coffee, lagered for six weeks so it rolls in smooth and quiet. Best poured a little warmer than you think.

    13 oz pour$84-pack to go$19

  3. No. 03 / 06German pilsnerHouse lager

    Mile Marker 9

    ABV
    4.9%
    IBU
    30
    Hops
    Saaz, Hallertau

    Bready, flinty and bone-dry, lagered five weeks with nothing to hide behind. It’s what the brewers drink after a double shift.

    16 oz pour$64-pack to go$14

  4. No. 04 / 06Blueberry goseSeasonal

    Blue Ridge Static

    ABV
    5.2%
    IBU
    8
    Fruit
    300 lb Madison County blueberries

    Kettle-soured with a pinch of sea salt and coriander, then crushed fruit from a farm up the road. Tart, purple and a little fizzy in the ears.

    16 oz pour$74-pack to go$18

  5. No. 05 / 06West Coast IPAYear-round

    Dead Reckoning

    ABV
    7.1%
    IBU
    65
    Hops
    Simcoe, Centennial, Chinook

    Clear, bitter and pointed the right way: grapefruit peel, resin and a finish so dry it squeaks. The old compass, still true.

    16 oz pour$74-pack to go$17

  6. No. 06 / 06Table saisonNew

    Low Gear

    ABV
    4.2%
    IBU
    22
    Grain
    Local spelt, Pils malt

    Peppery, lemony and built for a hot afternoon on the dock. Our house farmhouse yeast does the talking. Two of these and the hill home feels flat.

    16 oz pour$64-pack to go$15

The taproom

Fourteen taps in an old freight depot.

Cal Pruitt drove freight for eleven years and home-brewed in a rented garage between runs. In 2016 he bought the old rail depot on Freightyard Lane, put a seven-barrel brewhouse where the loading dock was, and kept the freight scale by the door.

The roll-up doors stay open April through October. Dogs are welcome inside, kids until 8, and there’s a shelf of board games nobody has ever finished.

The depot, built 1951 · covered dock seating for 120Heaters on from November

Hours Eastern time

MondayClosed, it’s brew day
Tuesday3 – 10 pm
Wednesday3 – 10 pm
Thursday3 – 10 pm
Friday12 – 11 pm
Saturday11 am – 11 pm
Sunday11 am – 8 pm

Kitchen is whichever truck is parked out front.

  • Dogs welcome
  • Kids until 8 pm
  • Growler fills $14–22
  • Board games

Food trucks this week Parked by the dock

  1. MonNo truck, no taproomThe brewers are mashing in. Come back Tuesday.—
  2. TueSmokestack BBQBrisket, burnt ends, pimento mac5 – 9 pm
  3. WedLa Ruta TaqueriaAl pastor off the trompo, birria with consomé5 – 9 pm
  4. ThuHot Plate ThaiKhao soi, crying tiger, sticky rice5 – 9:30 pm
  5. FriBig Pie Pizza Co.Wood-fired pies, hot honey, a very good Caesar4 – 10 pm
  6. SatWildflower DumplingsPork and chive, chili crisp, scallion pancakes12 – 9 pm
  7. SunBiscuit RunFried chicken biscuits, sausage gravy, pimento cheese11 am – 4 pm

On the dock

Coming up at the depot.

Bluegrass most Thursdays, a quiz on Tuesdays and a can release about once a month. Everything is free unless it says otherwise.

  1. ThuEveryThursday

    Bluegrass on the Dock

    The Swannanoa Ramblers and whoever else brought a fiddle. Heaters on, doors halfway down.

    7 – 10 pmFree

  2. SatNextSaturday

    Can release: barrel-aged Night Freight

    Nine months in Kentucky bourbon barrels. 600 cans, two four-packs a person, doors at 11.

    11 am$24 / 4-pack

  3. TueEveryTuesday

    The Long Haul Quiz

    Six rounds, teams of up to six, and the winning table drinks free next week. Benji from the cellar asks the questions.

    7:30 pmFree

  4. FriEveryFriday

    Firkin Friday

    One cask, tapped at four, poured until it’s gone. This week: Switchback conditioned on Ethiopian coffee.

    4 pm$8 a pour

  5. SunEverySunday

    Long Haul Run Club

    A flat 5k along the French Broad greenway. Your first pint after is $3 and nobody checks your time.

    9 amFree

  6. SatLaterthis month

    Riso Night with Hand Crank Press

    Print your own two-color gig poster on the same drum machine we print ours on. Paper, ink and a pint included.

    6 – 9 pm$35

Brewery tours

The long way round.

Fifty minutes from the grain room to the canning line with one of our brewers, a pour at every stop and a logo glass to take home. Saturdays at 1 and 3 pm, 21 and over.

Floor plan, not to scale · the route takes about 50 minutes
  1. 1

    The grain room

    Two tons of malt a week and the roller mill that cracks it. Stick your hand in the Pils malt; it smells like warm crackers.

  2. 2

    The brewhouse

    Mash tun, kettle and whirlpool on a seven-barrel kit. Cal welded the platform himself and will tell you about it.

  3. 3

    The cellar

    Eight fermenters, each named after a truck stop on I-40. You’ll taste Switchback straight from FV4, three days from the can.

  4. 4

    The barrel room

    Forty-one bourbon and rye barrels, where Night Freight goes to get serious. It’s the coldest, quietest room in the building.

  5. 5

    The canning line

    Forty cans a minute on a good day. Thursday is canning day, and the labels are printed two streets over.

  6. 6

    Back to the bar

    Your last pour from the bright tank, a logo glass to keep, and ten percent off anything to go.

Book a Saturday tour

Time
Guests
2

Total $36

Find our beer

On shelves across the mountains.

We deliver it ourselves, in one blue van, Tuesdays and Fridays, to thirty-eight shops, bars and restaurants within ninety minutes of the depot.

  • The Rail Yard TavernRiver Arts District, Asheville
  • Kudzu Bottle ShopHaywood Road, West Asheville
  • Tall Pour Bottles & TapsMerrimon Avenue, North Asheville
  • Dogwood MarketSouth Slope, Asheville
  • Reems Creek ProvisionsWeaverville
  • Mill Town GrowlersBlack Mountain
  • Apple Valley Beer & WineHendersonville
  • Pisgah ProvisionsBrevard
  • Island Street GroceryMarshall
  • Main Street Bottle Co.Waynesville

Can’t find a beer near you? Ask your shop to call the depot on (555) 018-2716. If it fits in the van, we’ll bring it.