Day: May 24, 2010
Local pub to mark “Beer City USA” win
Reagan Kornegay, bartender at Barley’s Taproom, hoists a frosty pint of French Broad Rye Hopper. Barley’s will hold a special 5:30 pm toast tonight marking Asheville’s win of the highly-coveted “Beer City USA” crown for the second year in a row and they’ll offer $3 pints of all its local brews in celebration of the win. Photo taken and beer consumed by Michael Muller
Examiner.com poll: Asheville, NC continues its reign as top BeerCity USA 2010
It’s official: “Asheville, North Carolina is BeerCity USA 2010. While Portland, Oregon organized a healthy challenge against the western North Carolina city of Asheville, in the end the relentless craft beer enthusiasm for Asheville won out,” writes Charlie Papazian, who started the BeerCity USA poll last year and ran it again this year. His comments appeared this afternoon here.
BeerCity poll closes with Asheville in clear lead
A passion for craft beer and social media appear to have been the recipe for success in this year’s BeerCity USA poll, conducted by Charlie Papazian, beer critic of the Charlotte Examiner. The poll closed at 11:59 p.m. Mountain time, May 23, at the end of American Craft Beer Week. With the Examiner site indicating “poll closed,” the two top ranking cities registered the following scores: Asheville 39.9 percent; Portland 34.1 percent.
UPDATE: At noon on Monday, May 24 — still waiting for an official declaration of the winner by the Examiner site.
