They give multiple tours each day at times listed on their website.

In retrospect maybe I should have gone on the tour. More than half of them went on the 4:30 pm tour, which I skipped because I had just ordered a flight of beer. There were a couple dozen people in the tasting room when I arrived. The bar in the Highland Brewing tasting room. In the corner near the entrance various merchandise and bottled beer were available for purchase. There were three bartenders on duty so they clearly draw in a pretty good crowd. A large bar sits against the wall that separates the tasting room from the brewing facilities. It’s obviously set up for reasonably large concerts, and from what I could glean these are pretty regular occurrences on the weekends (a schedule of live music acts can be found on the Highlands website). The tasting room is in a cavernous warehouse space with a stage at one end, flanked on either side by shipping containers that have been converted to offices, with a sound mixing board in the middle of the room. If you can only have one beer – 20th Anniversary Scotch Ale.Address: 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Asheville, NC 28803.The entrance to the Highland Brewing tasting room. They are definitely not within walking distance of downtown, so to start the Friday leg of my visit (now solo) I drove out to Highland, arriving 15 minutes or so after their 4 pm opening time. In 2006 they moved out to their new, much larger home on the east side of the city. Highland Brewing was initially located in downtown Asheville in the basement of Barleys Taproom and Pizzeria. So it seemed obligatory to pay them a visit. Founded in 1994 Highland is the oldest and biggest brewery in Asheville, possibly the largest in all of North Carolina.

Highland brewing downtown