Highland Brewery celebrates ten years in the business.(Weekly Specialty & Import Beer Report)

From: Modern Brewery Age | Date: May 24, 2004 | Copyright information

AP -- Ten years is a long time in anyone's life, but in the craft beer business, it's an eternity.

It's such a risky and expensive game that not too many small brewers survive to celebrate their first decade.

But Asheville's Highland Brewing Co. pulled it off and launched the local craft beer scene in the process. In February 1994, retired engineer Oscar Wong and his then-partner John McDermott announced plans for the city's first brewery (at least in modern times). In December 1994, the first barrels of Highland's Celtic Ale (now Gaelic Ale) rolled out the doors.

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