Here’s the Beer Guy talking about Highland Brewing’s new Shining Rock Lager:
It’s the first in a new line of seasonal brews from Highland, which has mostly focused on its line of year-round products, rather than specialty beers. Shining Rock will be followed this summer by a wheat beer, then an Octoberfest tentatively to be called Clawhammer, then the wildly popular Cold Mountain Winter Ale.
While these new brews make their appearances, Highland has dropped its sturdy, higher-alcohol Tasgall Scottish ale from year-round production, but is looking to revive it as a seasonal, perhaps to follow the Cold Mountain, Wong said.
Like Cold Mountain, only a limited amount of Shining Rock Lager will be brewed, and most of it will be sold in Asheville and Western North Carolina, with the rest being offered to distributors in Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia.