Black Mountain Ale House

Catching up on locations I’ve visited but not rated. Visited 6 years ago, probably due for a revisit.

Stopped by for lunch on a Saturday, and pretty much had the place to ourselves (for a little while, anyway), so the service was pretty good, and our sandwiches were delicious. Draft selection was acceptable, but the bottle selection was awful.

This place has 20 or so taps divided by color chart.. They have some locals, including a couple from Lookout, but nothing too adventurous. Of course they don’t help the beer any by serving it in ice cold glasses. The food was fair to middling. The wait staff was pleasant enough but it’s not a place I ever have to get back to.

I was heading to the Trailhead Bar and noticed this place was literally across the street so I stopped in. Downstairs in a building, the decor looked fairly neutral. Friendly bartender, nice beers on tap with a definite focus on local, but only one Pisgah on tap, which was disappointing. Didn’t eat and didn’t catch the prices. Street parking was easy to find early on a Tuesday.

A good bar, but they said they do lunch...and had 2 items on the menu. To their credit, the menu gets a little more extensive after 3:00 (and one of the two items looked good), but when you’re advising as an ale house with lunch and dinner in the local beer promo handout, you should really have more than 2 items to choose from. 18 beers on tap though, with a lot of NC brews.

Great place to hang out! Cami is an amazing bartender!

Had to add these guys to the database. Great little pub in Black Mountain that also has pretty good pub food offerings, nothing spectacular but solid for a bar. Lots of flat screens, soccer always on, great people. They focus on local brews from NC, Pisgah/Green Man/Duck Rabbit/Highland/FrenchBroad/ usually have dales and some seasonals to name a few.