{"id":9731,"date":"2016-08-11T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T19:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2016-08-11T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T19:47:57","slug":"wicked-weed-distribution-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wicked-weed-distribution-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Weed becomes First Asheville Brewery to Reach across Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wicked-weed-logo-300x183.png\" alt=\"Wicked Weed becomes First Asheville Brewery to Reach across Mississippi\" \/>After less than four years in business, Asheville\u2019s rapidly-growing Wicked Weed Brewing <a href=\"http:\/\/beerpulse.com\/2016\/08\/wicked-weed-brewing-to-expand-distribution-into-the-state-of-colorado-4643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently announced plans<\/a> to begin distribution in Colorado this week. As one of the most distinctive beer markets in the nation, a move into the Centennial State marks a strategic expansion of their unique brand to specialty beer aficionados.<br \/>\nColorado is no stranger to Wicked Weed beers. The brewery has won multiple medals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great American Beer Festival<\/a>, held in Denver each fall. They received the gold medal for 100% Brettanomyces Serenity in 2013 and Mompara Honey Ale in 2014, as well as the silver medal for Pernicious IPA in 2015.<br \/>\nIn order to properly launch their product sales to the Colorado market, the brewery is hosting tap takeover events throughout the state. They will showcase Wicked Weed\u2019s sour and mixed-culture farmhouse ales like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbeercup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Beer Cup<\/a>-winning Angel series. The brewery reports that 80% of beers entering the market will be from their sour program, with the remaining product including more hoppy offerings from their production facility.<br \/>\nWicked Weed\u2019s announcement makes them the first Asheville-grown brewery to expand their beer sales west of the Mississippi River. Asheville\u2019s longest running brewery, Highland Brewing (founded in 1994), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandbrewing.com\/about-us\/distributors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has distributors across<\/a> the Southeast and into the Midwest.<\/p>\n<h3>About Wicked Weed Brewing<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wickedweedbrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wicked Weed<\/a> was founded in December 2012 and now employs over 200 people. The brewery aims to become one of the leading producers of barrel-aged sour and wild beers in the Southeast, and are racing quickly toward that goal. They currently have three locations: their original brewpub in the heart of downtown Asheville, the Funkatorium on the South Slope, and a 50-barrel production brewery in West Asheville. An additional brewery and barrel house dedicated to sour and wild beers is slated to open in South Asheville this fall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wicked-Weed_VideoGrab.jpg\" alt=\"Wicked Weed_VideoGrab\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 488px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After less than four years in business, Asheville\u2019s rapidly-growing Wicked Weed Brewing recently announced plans to begin distribution in Colorado this week. As one of the most distinctive beer markets in the nation, a move into the Centennial State marks a strategic expansion of their unique brand to specialty beer aficionados. Colorado is no stranger&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wicked-weed-distribution-colorado\/\" title=\"Read Wicked Weed becomes First Asheville Brewery to Reach across Mississippi\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,39,7],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","tag-commercial","tag-craft-brewing","tag-wnc-businesses"],"acf":[],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/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=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}