{"id":11398,"date":"2017-03-24T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:09:24","slug":"blue-ghost-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/blue-ghost-brewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ghost Brewing Capitalizes on Fletcher\u2019s Location and Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Blue-Ghost-Brewing-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"March Client Connect Offer: 10% off Merchandise at Blue Ghost Brewing\">No longer simply a sleepy stopping point between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/communities\/asheville\">Asheville<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/communities\/hendersonville\">Hendersonville<\/a>, Fletcher, NC is now a destination in its own right. The town has been growing at a steady and smooth pace in recent years thanks to lower housing costs and its convenient location. Business owners, including those at Blue Ghost Brewing, are taking note of this growth for their own gain.<br \/>\n\u201cI think if I had to describe Fletcher in three words, they would be CONVENIENT, GROWING, and NICE,\u201d said Zach Horn, a Fletcher resident and co-owner\/brewer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueghostbrewing.com\/\">Blue Ghost Brewing Company<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-W-NE86baQE\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFletcher\u2019s adjacent location to Interstate 26 is among the many reasons the community has more than doubled in size over the last 20 years. The current population of 7,600 enjoy their proximity to some of Western North Carolina&#8217;s biggest attractions, businesses, and natural wonders. Fletcher is conveniently located near the Pisgah National Forest and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgeparkway.org\/\">Blue Ridge Parkway<\/a>, havens for sightseers, cyclists, and outdoor adventurists of all types.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blue-ghost-beer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\">\u201cWe fell in love with this area, with everything there is to do outside, the convenience, again, a lot of free things to do, and it\u2019s a great climate\u2014just a lot of great things that we enjoyed, and we moved here because we wanted to be here,\u201d said Horn.<br \/>\nIn fact, Blue Ghost Brewing draws its inspiration and its mission from local ecology. \u201cOne of the names that stood out to us was Blue Ghost because of the fireflies that are native to this region,\u201d said Horn. \u201dIt really tied into what we\u2019re trying to create here, as far as family. Kids love catching fireflies in Mason jars in the summertime. We were able to pull all those elements into the brewery.\u201d<br \/>\nFletcher is also uniquely positioned for national and international beer tourists. Blue Ghost is just minutes away from <a href=\"http:\/\/flyavl.com\/\">Asheville Regional Airport<\/a>, currently home to six airlines offering over a dozen regional and national destinations. Across the street, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wncagcenter.org\/\">WNC Agricultural Center<\/a>\u2019s 87-acre facility hosts events year round that attract vendors and visitors to its grounds.<br \/>\n\u201cOur customers come a lot from Hendersonville, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/communities\/mills-river\">Mills River<\/a>, Fletcher, Asheville\u2014because we\u2019re in the middle, like Fletcher. We have a lot of nice customers, and it just translates into the local community,\u201d said Horn.<br \/>\nAnd, of course, beer tourists can enjoy the many nearby breweries in Asheville, Hendersonville, and surrounding areas.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re I-don\u2019t-know-what-number brewery\u2014once we started here, 50-plus\u2014so the culture had already been established,\u201d said Horn. However, Horn sees his fellow brewers as more of a community than competition. \u201cThe climate, the water is soft\u2014it\u2019s perfect for brewing because you can add to it and don\u2019t have to worry about taking out things. It just sets up the perfect scenario for brewing beer.\u201d<br \/>\nHorn continued: \u201cWe try to bring in all of our passions from outside of brewing into the business. For example, I used to be a biology teacher, so we have a natural history educational series that we\u2019ve been doing the last five months. We\u2019re about to have a talk about Blue Ghost Fireflies to end it for the season. Bringing all those other passions in is a big driver behind our brewery, for sure.\u201d<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blue-ghost-bar.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nFletcher\u2019s business community is growing with new, locally-owned businesses opening every year. See more about growing Fletcher for yourself! Read more about Fletcher, NC, see more photos, or search for homes in the area, from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/communities\/fletcher\">Beverly-Hanks Fletcher community page<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No longer simply a sleepy stopping point between Asheville and Hendersonville, Fletcher, NC is now a destination in its own right. The town has been growing at a steady and smooth pace in recent years thanks to lower housing costs and its convenient location. Business owners, including those at Blue Ghost Brewing, are taking note&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/blue-ghost-brewing\/\" title=\"Read Blue Ghost Brewing Capitalizes on Fletcher\u2019s Location and Biology\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,39,88,7],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","tag-commercial","tag-craft-brewing","tag-fletcher","tag-wnc-businesses"],"acf":[],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}