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Highland Brewing Company

🌍 United States · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Founded in 1994 by Oscar Wong, Highland was Asheville's first brewery since Prohibition and the spark for what became a world-renowned mountain beer town. Now woman-led, it's the largest family-owned brewery born in the Southeast.

5Beers
4Styles
6.5%Avg ABV
1994Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
40%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Highland Brewing Company

5 beers
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Black Watch
Double Chocolate Milk Stout · 8%
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Gaelic Ale
American Amber Ale · 5.5%
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Gaelic Amber Ale
Amber Ale · 5.5%
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Highland Haze
Hazy IPA · 7.4%
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Oatmeal Porter
American Porter · 5.9%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 5 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 5 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
smoothevery beer
5 of 5 beers
malty
4 of 5 beers
bitter
3 of 5 beers
creamy
3 of 5 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad5 beers · 4 style families
Amber 2Stout 1IPA 1Porter 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

How they compare
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 210 other breweries making American Amber Ale, Amber Ale and Hazy IPA.

Across 5 beers in 4 style families, none of Highland Brewing Company's characters carry through the whole range — the mix of styles they brew is the signature here.

typical for American Amber Ale, Amber Ale and Hazy IPAHighland Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
smooth
in all 5 of their beers · typical American Amber Ale, Amber Ale and Hazy IPA brewery: all 5 out of 5
A shade above, but within the field.
malty
in 4 of 5 · typical American Amber Ale, Amber Ale and Hazy IPA brewery: 3 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
hoppy
in 3 of 5 · typical American Amber Ale, Amber Ale and Hazy IPA brewery: 3 in 5
Right where the field sits.
bitter
in 3 of 5 · typical American Amber Ale, Amber Ale and Hazy IPA brewery: 3 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
dark fruit
in 3 of 5 · typical American Amber Ale, Amber Ale and Hazy IPA brewery: 2 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 56%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
3 / 5
beers above the median
#1493
best ranked beer
Gaelic Amber Ale

Their beers place in the Top 56% of the catalogue on average, across 5 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Highland Brewing Company

Founded in 1994 by Oscar Wong, Highland was Asheville's first brewery since Prohibition and the spark for what became a world-renowned mountain beer town. Now woman-led, it's the largest family-owned brewery born in the Southeast.

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