This tour was everything we hoped for and so much more. We had booked a private tour for our group,…read moreincluding our pup. The whole process, from booking through the tour was fantastic. The team was very accommodating, had great communication and got us set up for the exact date and time we had hoped for. On the day of our tour, we met our awesome guide, Michael, at the first brewery and the day began. Michael was a wealth of knowledge, not just about the beer industry itself, but the craft beer movement in Asheville, the history of Asheville, and so much more. At every brewery he took us to he really had the inside track, knew everyone there, and was able to give us the perfect blend of history, education and beverages. Since we had already been to one of our planned stops earlier in the week, Michael was quick on his feet to identify another venue that had a fantastic selection and location. One of my favorite parts of the tour was getting to experience certain types of beer that I would otherwise shy away from. At the start of our journey, Michael asked our group what we liked, what we didn't like and from there, he really expanded all of our pallets and showed us just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what Asheville breweries have to offer. Even if you've been to every brewery, even if you're in Asheville expert, everyone can benefit from this tour, it was informative, entertaining and refreshing.

Went on a brew-Ed tour on our recent Asheville trip. Cliff…read moreprovided so much information. He even teaches brewing and the craft beer business at the local college. We went to 3 breweries and sampled 4 beers at each. It was nice to try beers I would never have ordered Cliff gives the history of beer around the world and in the US along with Asheville and some of the local breweries and brewers. This tour was a high point of our visit. Really helped us navigate the Asheville craft beer scene. Highly recommend and you can't go wrong with this tour!!

I originally booked Asheville Brews Cruise for a tour for 18 people for my bachelorette, originally…read morescheduled for October 2024. Due to the hurricane, I had asked to reschedule my booking to the end of March 2025. I had put down an over $1000 deposit, which I was told was fully refundable at the time of my booking. At first J.C. was very communicative and said that he was happy to reschedule and that he would send the updated paperwork. However, I never received the updated paperwork and tried over 3 months to get a response from J.C. as to whether Asheville Brews Cruise would still be able to provide a tour for my bachelorette. With no response, I assumed that Asheville Brews Cruise could no longer support a tour for my bachelorette party and therefore booked a tour with a different company and asked for a refund of my original deposit. With again no response, in February, I finally tried messaging Asheville Brews Cruise over Instagram to get a refund on my deposit. J.C. finally responded and noted that he would reach out about a refund. But to this day I have still not received that refund after trying to communicate with Asheville Brews Cruise over email, text, and through multiple phone calls. While I understand that all businesses in Asheville are going through a hard time post hurricane, the lack of responsiveness over 5 months and failure to refund my substantial deposit has put me at my wits end. I would not recommend booking with this company for any future tours.

J.C. is the right man in the right place! We got this tour from our great friends who live in the…read moretown and we really thanks them for that experience! All you want to know about the Asheville beers and breweries, just ask the guide. As we are from the country where the "beer was born" (Czech Republic, Pilsner) I appreciated the knowledge of that history as well We spent a lot of fun there and tasted many types of beers during the tour, the Brew Cruise bus was amazing, we met nice people from other countries. Absolutely recommend that

Evan was our tour guide and he is amazing!! He brought us to Burial, Green Man, and Eurisko. He is…read morea certified cicerone and absolutely knows everything about brewing beer and the best spots in Asheville! We definitely recommend this tour because he takes you to the best spots, recommends the best beers to try at each place, and teaches you everything you've ever wanted to know about brewing beer. Evan keeps it fun and makes sure everyone enjoys their time in Asheville. He also was willing to take his time to help us plan our entire Bachelorette trip!

Me and my absolute boys (whomst I love) just participated in this brewery tour during my boy Mike's…read morebachelor party. Evan was our host - he was super knowledgeable and we all had a really great time. We went to Burial, Green Man Brewery, and Eurisko's. Eurisko's had this grape musk beer; that was my favorite. Burial and Green Man did their best but they could not compete in the end and not everybody has what it takes. Only one trophy can be awarded but I still liked the other breweries we went to. If I were to review them separately, I would give very solid reviews. Eurisko's would get the best reviews though. I don't know why they call bachelor parties "parties" when they require a full weekend. Like if you were to have a bachelor party and it were only for one night, that would suck. That was a thought I had during this tour and I never would have had that thought if not for Evan - who absolutely rules. I plan to return to Asheville and take my other friends on this tour. I am looking forward to reuniting with my new lifelong bros at Mike's wedding in September I am taking applications for a plus 1 - hit me up

If you like music and breweries, the fender bender tour is for you! Our host Glen, curated the…read moreexperience, with the music of Uni-Horn as we were transported through Asheville as we visited 3 breweries, and had a rocking good time. Highly suggest this tour, even locals told us, they do the tour at least once a year, because it's so much fun. My pro tip , split a flight of beer at each stop so you can try as many beers as possible.

We decided to go on the Friday 5:00pm LaZoom Comedy Bus City Tour. It was well run and very…read moreorganized. The City tour is Family friendly and packed with good silly fun. The Comedian(s) are punny and shared some fun facts about the city. There was one bathroom stop at Green Man Brewery. Overall a fun time.

Wow this was an awesome experience with Sam he was an awesome guide…read more We stopped at 12 bones for a great BBQ and even better beer the porter was OTW!! Then we headed over to hiwire brewing and Sam gave us an awesome brewery tour and the fries from the food truck out front helped to keep us going with the brews that were consuming. Dirty jacks was an awesome night cap area with this tour we had an open bar at the end to grab some great beer Great job to Sam for making our Bach weekend beer tour a hit!!

Abby was a great tour guide, very knowledgeable and conversational. Learned a lot and had some…read moregreat beers.

Jonathan was our tour guide for our girls weekend! He was fabulous and we received snacks and water…read moreon the bus. He went out of his way to make us happy. There were stories to tell from our tour but he handled it like a champ! I really appreciate how he took care of us and highly recommend his company

From the owner: Experience Asheville, North Carolina's thriving beer scene like never before as AVL Beer Bus takes…read moreyou around the city's diverse local breweries. With well-thought routes, we make sure you won't miss anything that the area has to offer. The best part? You get to hop off at any of our destinations and have the freedom to dive into the beer scene at your own pace.

So fun! Each tour is tailored to the groups interests, size and preferences. Super fun way to get…read moreto know town for locals and visitors!

We recently did a The Team Building Detour as an activity for diverse group of 27 professionals…read morefrom throughout the US. Kasey was extremely communicative and accommodating through the entire planning process. She broke the group up into 3 smaller groups to allow everyone to be able to participate. She greeted us at our first stop and explained how the clues and hunt would work -- she had so much positive energy, with jokes, fun swag, and candy to get us started on the right foot. The clues and stops were thoughtfully curated to give the teams a variety of experiences. Everyone had an amazing time and it was a great way to bond in a casual setting. I visit Asheville fairly regularly (~2X/year) and the tour showed me some new spots and new facts about Asheville. Highly recommend Asheville Detours as a fun activity for your next group outing - whether it's a corporate group, bachelorette party, family outing, church group, etc. Thanks so much, Kasey!

On a recent anniversary trip to Asheville, my husband and I enjoyed Eating Asheville's historical…read moredowntown food tour. We decided to splurge for The High Roller option as it was only around $10 more a person and included beverage parings with the food. Included is up to 6 stops at restaurants, bars, or desserteries with at-least 3 alcoholic beverages pairings and then other non-alcoholic options. The tour lasts about 2.5- 3 hours. This is a walking in food tour, so you have to be able and willing to travel on foot some. It wasn't a ton of walking, but did work up a little sweat as it was a warmer Friday afternoon (this tour is offered Thursday- Sunday). We had a small group of 6 people plus our tour guide. She was very sweet and personable. I think she may have been semi new at this as her story flow was a little jumbled, but it didn't bother me too much as honestly she was trying and I was interested in food way more than history. She did point out some important sites along the way and give us some fun Asheville facts. Great thing about these tours is they do vary. While the company has a number of places they work with which ones are selected for you, depends on the day, time, season etc. So you could honestly do these tours more than once and experience new things still. Our tour began at Asheville Charcuterie where we each enjoyed a personalized board of meat, cheese, cracker, fruit, and a local spicy honey. It was also served with a Bold Rock cider. This was a cute shop where you can get a drink or snack there or take items with you to go. Next was to the Grove Arcade where we hit Bebettes, a New Orleans coffeehouse with fresh out the oven beignets with a warm chocolate dipping sauce, served with a shot of coffee. So yummy. I felt bad about all the power sugar I got everywhere. Gotta love a dessert on stop 2! For the third s location was Strada Italiano. The food here was excellent. We sampled one of their arancini balls and a grilled Florentine ravioli. Both were delicious bites and executed flawlessly. Great Italian fare with some red wine. My husband and I agreed we want to come back here for a full Italian dinner experience on our next trip. Starting to feel a little full at this point, not gonna lie but things continued to get more hearty at The Rhu. We got to enjoy their house breakfast sausage and pimento cheese on a buttermilk biscuit. Thank goodness they only gave us half each as these bad boys were thick. All three components were so tasty, with the pimento cheese winning for me. It came with some iced tea, which was definitely southern and sweet. I knew we had one more food stop left before dessert. Imagine my surprise when it was an Indiana buffet at Mehfil. On the fifth stop? Lord, a bad day to wear jeans! They place was so generous giving us a like private mini buffet of items like tandoori chicken, saag paneer, naan, butter chicken, rice and more. I truly wish I had room to eat more as everything was so tasty, especially their tandoori chicken. Also they had the best beverage pairing with a pear mule cocktail - perfectly light and smooth for a warm day. Our tour guide joked that we would need to cancel our dinner reservations, turns out they weren't kidding. The last stop was Asheville Chocolate. So many amazing sweet treats you could enjoy at this place. We wrapped up our tour with a chocolate truffle and cookies and cream gelato. I had to ask my husband to help finish these as I was stuffed. Before departing, we tipped our guide. This is not required, but we were happy to do so as she worked hard and took great care of us. After the tour, not gonna lie went back to our hotel and had an amazing nap! Sign of a good food tour! I thought this food tour was a great deal for the $90 per person price. I know at first it sounds like a lot. But we more than got $15 worth at each place from the food and drink itself, plus to convenience of being able to just walk in to a reserved table at a popular restaurant with a planned bite ready in a few minutes. Not to mention, having a personal tour guide to take you around and teach you about where you are, what you are eating , and Asheville in general. If you like to eat, and can eat a lot (you will be very full but it's worth it), take this tour. It was a great way to get a taste of places you've never been and decide where you wanna go back to and try a full meal next time!

Did we have a good time overall? Yes. However, do I think…read moreit's worth the $92/person price tag all in with taxes and fees... to sample 5 places with varying portions of food and drink? Not quite. The classic before fees is $79/person. It offers "minimum of 5 stops and at least 2 drink pairings" from their website. Don't get me started on the 15.5% extra they tack on for "taxes and fees". If the unavoidable city tax for Asheville is 7%, the remainder is 8.5% for what? Their website/payment services? To be fair, the pricing is similar to one we took part in NOLA $78/person with Destination Kitchen but the food and portions were more balanced (albeit without drink pairings). For $10 more base price, you can book the high roller tour $89/person. After all is said and done I'm wondering if we should have spent the extra amount and upgraded to the high roller since the descriptor highlights "most elegant, trendy, and acclaimed" options. I understand the business also needs to make a profit along with giving a cut to the tour guides. At the beginning and throughout the tour, the guide continued to emphasize that if we were still hungry by the end that they have not done their jobs. However, there's more to consider. I'll go through the 5 places we tried and how one of the newest additions isn't even listed still on their website so if you were to look ahead of time for the offerings you would not expect it! We met our group inside the Grove Street Arcade on a Monday in September which is a great spot with some shops and public restrooms before we started. STOP 1 - The Rhu https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-rhu-asheville This is the cafe/breakfast bakery sister to Rhubarb, which is more upscale. They prepared a small cup of iced sweet tea with half of their breakfast sandwich. The refreshing tea with sugar cubes paired nicely with the buttery biscuit sandwich. Value: $8.50 for full sandwich and drink was not listed so going to estimate total is worth one sandwich. STOP 3 - Bold Rock https://www.yelp.com/biz/bold-rock-asheville-asheville The Cidery story actually started in VA but I'm glad they expanded to NC. We sampled a 6~7 oz cider paired with a Bruschetta and Bacon Apple Grilled Cheese. (American, cheddar, goat cheese, local apples, bacon, Dijon aioli, sourdough) It was super tasty and really enjoyed everything!! Value: ~$5 half pour, ~$10 for the food so one of the better values STOP 3 - Mëhfil https://www.yelp.com/biz/mehfil-asheville-2 Full buffet spread of ~6 Indian dishes with Mango Lassi and a tasty alcoholic beverage too! Now this place is the spot I mentioned isn't even listed with their logo on the restaurant page... I checked their Instagram which isn't updated frequently either and they announced just the day before our tour so this is brand NEW. Unfortunately this is one of the cuisines my SO does not eat. We would not have known that reserving in advance... which is a shame. Value: ~$25-30 honestly since they were offering generous full size portions of their dishes that you could serve yourself, this was hands down the best cost wise. If you were to fill up it would be at this stop. The staff were also super nice and hospitable! STOP 4 - Manicomio Pizza https://www.yelp.com/biz/manicomio-pizza-asheville Plain and simple pizzeria with some funky designs. We sampled a single slice which may have been their special of the day with cherry tomato and artichoke and a lemon wedge to spritz. It tasted good, but forgettable. They just gave us water. Value: $5.50 by the slice for daily special STOP 5 FINAL - Sunshine Sammies https://www.yelp.com/biz/sunshine-sammies-asheville Makes sense we'd end on dessert and we sampled 1/2 a sandwich of I believe their seasonal pumpkin! It was a sweet way to conclude the tour. Value: $4, a full size seasonal flavor is $8 I was full from the generous spread offered at Mëhfil which carried the food and drink side of the tour. Unfortunately my SO didn't get to fully enjoy the experience, and there was no way we could have expected they'd take us to the new restaurant that was just announced. Even being generous with some of my estimates, I landed at value of ~$60, which is still short of the cost you're paying especially when more than half of these locations are more fast casual spots. The most disappointing was the pizzeria, since aside from the artwork I didn't feel anything unique about the taste and seems like a wasted opportunity given the list of other more interesting restaurants. I enjoyed the historical information the guide sprinkled throughout along with background about each of the locations. Next time I'll keep in mind for Mondays where many restaurants aren't open.