Post-ride Beer: Burial-Pisgah Cemetery Gates

By Logan

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2014

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Day two of five was our main beer tasting day during a recent bikepacking trip through Pisgah. After a nice ride on Kitsuma, a long tarmac voyage through Asheville, and a stop at Wicked Weed Brewery, we pedaled a few hundred yards and saddled up to the bar at the lauded Burial Beer Co. While there we were treated to great company and an after hours tasting that included the epic Wrecking Bar Black Saison, and the Gandasa Imperial IPA. On the way out Tim, their mad scientist head brewer (shown above), handed us a bomber of Cemetery Gates, a Belgian IPA born from Burial’s collaboration with Pisgah Brewing. The rest in photo captions:

Nothing like a velvet Selleck.

More taps.

Tim bidding us farewell. Make sure to check out Burial Beer next time you are in Asheville…

The brutal bottom of Trace Ridge.

Chilling our bomber in the river where we made camp. I am normally not a huge fan of Belgian style IPAs; often they can be a little too wheaty, but Cemetery Gates is a different story. This limited edition collaboration between the two Ahseville breweries, Pigah and Burial, is a beautiful hop forward, floral ale that’s brewed with Bastogne Belgian yeast and Mosaic and Citra hops.

This one’s done, but the limited edition brew is hopefully still available on draught at Pisgah and Burial taprooms, as well as bombers at select locations.

Read more about the route.