Word on the street: Deschutes Brewery is picking Asheville for its new brewery

An Atlanta-based beer writer tweeted that Oregon-based Deschutes Brewery, which has been eyeing Asheville as a possible location for its East Coast brewery, has indeed chosen Asheville as its location. But Deschutes on Twitter today said that it has not made up its mind.

Here you go:

Austin Louis Ray tweets:

Someone with knowledge of the deal told me tonight that Deschutes is opening their east coast location in Asheville.

Which is great! I look forward to visiting and having Deschutes whenever I want. But I wish Georgia lawmakers would let us compete already.

Here’s the Deschutes tweet:

we have not secured a location & a decision has not been made at this point. We are still looking at several locations 🙂

According to Ray’s website, he’s a beer writer of some note:

Oh, hello. I’m Austin. I’ve written for places like Rolling Stone, BeerAdvocate, Vulture, Creative Loafing, Good Beer Hunting, The A.V. Club, Oxford American, First We Feast, Garden & Gun, All Music Guide, and SPIN.

I live in Atlanta with my wife and two dogs, working for an amazing company by day and other folks by night and weekend. I also write The Georgia Brewsletter. I like weird beer, black t-shirts with white print, stand-up comedy, pit bulls, fancy socks, and nice people.

Deschutes has said that Asheville is on its short list of East Coast locations, along with Greenville and Charleston in South Carolina. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported earlier this year that the brewery was checking out a potential site/land that Buncombe County commissioners had purchased specifically for an economic development project.