On Jan. 1, Christopher Arbor and his friends pledged to visit one Asheville brewery each week for all of 2025 in the order that they opened, then share the experience with Mountain Xpress readers. To read about their recent trip to Sierra Nevada, visit avl.mx/eqr. (This week’s column was co-written by Alan West.)
I recently spent a few days down in the Florida Keys. You know what Key West has that Asheville breweries don’t? A lot of drunk people.
Your mileage may vary, but in my decades of going to local breweries, I’ve never once seen someone fall over, vomit, pick a fight with me or drunkenly hit on me. But in Key West? All four things happened simultaneously, and that was before I even left the airport…