When did brewing beer start? How did India Pale Ale come about? Why do breweries make more lagers than other beers? At what temperature should you drink beer? Why do some breweries use nitro in their beer? On the BREW-ed Tour, Cliff our guide is the ultimate BEER EXPERT! He answers all these questions and MORE! Actually Cliff is a Certified Cicerone, meaning he is certified and educated as a beer professional and elevates the beer experience for consumers. The BREW-ed Tour definitely lives up in both educating us on beer and offering good of samples of beers at three different breweries. In addition to the beer education and tasting, Cliff shared numerous fascinating tales and stories of the history of Asheville, beer, and more. Our tour started at Hi-Wire Brewing, which is just over a year old and already expanding. As Cliff gives us extensive history on beer and the brewery, we sample the various Hi-Wire beers. Moving on to Twin Leaf Brewery, Cliff shares the concept of this brewery with comfy welcoming picnic tables as we sample more tasty beers. Finishing up at Green Man Brewing with its craft seasonal and specialty brews, we finish our educational beer tour. Cliff excels in providing a most informative, educational, and fun beer tour. Having been on many beer tours, the BREW-ed Tour added a great dimension as Cliff provide so much knowledge and insight into beer making and beer history. The tasting was fun at each brewery and Cliff explained the concept each brewery we visited.