Gaelic Ale
date: label: date made
content: ca 2020
label: date made
content: 2020
notes: label: Description
content: Highland Brewing Company is located in Asheville, North Carolina. The brewery's name and several elements of its graphic design reference the Scottish and Irish immigrants who settled in western North Carolina in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
label: Description
content: Gaelic Ale is the brewery's flagship beer. The brewery describes it as a "deep amber-colored American ale featuring a rich malty body. Gaelic is exceptionally balanced between malty sweetness and delicate hop bitterness." The beer contains 5.5% alcohol by volume. As of 2021, the recipe included Chinook, Willamette, and Cascade hops. Its malts were Munich, Caramel 40, Caramel 60, and Extra Special Malt.
label: Description
content: Oscar Wong, who immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica to study engineering and later retired in Asheville, founded Highland Brewing Co. in 1994. The business initiated a surge in microbreweries in the area. When Wong retired from the brewery, Leah Ashburn, Wong's daughter, became the brewery's family owner, president, and CEO.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: North Carolina, Asheville
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Highland Brewing Company through Leah Ashburn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0108.10
label: accession number
content: 2021.0108
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0108.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardboard holder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: carboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.6 cm x 25 5/16 in x .05 cm; 17 5/32 in x 64.262 cm x 1/32 in