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Tuesday nights bring a 150-year-old Canadian game to Highland Brewing
Join Asheville Crokinole Club at Highland Brewing for weekly meet-ups—friendly competition, good drinks, and an easy way to meet people through November 2026.
Event details
The Asheville Crokinole Club gathers every Tuesday from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Highland Brewing Company, the city’s original craft brewery at 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Suite 200. The meetup is free to attend, and crokinole boards are provided. Visitors need only show up ready to flick wooden discs across the circular playing surface.
Crokinole combines elements of shuffleboard, curling, and carrom on a tabletop scale. Players alternate flicking discs toward a recessed center hole worth 20 points, surrounded by concentric rings scoring 15, 10, and 5 points. Eight pegs guard the inner ring, and a critical rule requires players to contact opponents’ discs if any remain on the board. The game traces to 1876, when Ontario craftsman Eckhardt Wettlaufer built the earliest known board, now preserved at Joseph Schneider Haus in Kitchener. The club is registered with the National Crokinole Association (contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])).
Highland Brewing itself merits exploration. Founded in 1994 by Oscar Wong as Asheville’s first legal brewery since Prohibition, the 40-acre campus now features an 18-hole disc golf course, five sand volleyball courts, forest trails, a meadow with mountain views, and live music five nights weekly. Wong’s daughter Leah Wong Ashburn, a 2018 James Beard Award nominee, now leads the independent, family-owned operation.
Free parking fills the sprawling campus. Highland sits 28 miles from Lake Lure (45-50 minutes), 15-17 miles from Lake Powhatan, and 7-10 miles from Beaver Lake. Lake James lies furthest at 50-55 miles northeast.
For dinner beyond the brewery’s rotating food trucks, downtown Asheville offers Chai Pani (founded 2009) at 32 Banks Avenue, winner of the 2022 James Beard Outstanding Restaurant Award, where chef Meherwan Irani serves Indian street food that redefined the cuisine’s perception nationally. Tupelo Honey Café’s original “Mothership” location at 12 College Street (opened December 7, 2000 by Sharon Schott) pioneered farm-to-table Southern dining before expanding to 22+ locations.
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