Sign-ups to share will begin 15 minutes prior to the start of the event and fill up fast. We look forward to seeing you there!

Come math out at the distillery for Pi Day!

Ashley and the crew from Newstock will be on site from 2-4 serving up some delicious homemade pies by the slice. Or take home a mini-pie and a bottle of O&G to enjoy with friends and family.

Menu:

By the slice $8 Mini-pie $15

• Coconut Cream Pie

• Key Lime Pie

• Creamsicle Pie

• Chocolate Buttermilk Chess Pie

The Bar At Oak & Grist will be open 1-9pm for cocktails, beer, wine, mocktails, & soda. Charley King’s Jamaican Jerk foodtruck will also be on site all day.

We will continue to serve pie after they have left while supplies last.

Join us every Friday starting March 13 to experience chef Charley King’s take on a classic

The Friday Fish Fry

He’ll be here cooking up some seriously tasty fish n chips along with his full menu of Jamaican classics from noon-9pm. And we will be in the bar ready to serve craft cocktails, local beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages.

We’ve got the tables, the drinks, and the food.

You bring your favorite board game, card game, or RPG and settle in for a fun night with friends.

Wednesdays from 5-8pm.

Join our head bartender Arah as she celebrates spring by exploring some bright and briny flavors.

We will start with a drink that is sadly going away with the change of the season. The No Big Dill martini has been a crowd please on our winter menu. This cocktail will touch on the versatile technique of infusing alcohol. Infusions impart new and varied flavors to help add more interest and variety to your spirit selection. This is an olive infused genever gin paired with a dill infused dry vermouth.

And for the warmer days a new libation. A clarified milk punch whiskey sour. This is a fun one where we get to nerd out with some cocktail chemistry. We enhance our Descendant single malt whiskey with a burst of earth and grainy cereal notes from the cereal infused milk. It is then combined with citrus and filtered out leaving behind a bit of the milk proteins to add some extra body to the cocktail. As bright and zippy as a classic sour but also just a wee bit different.

A ticket gets admission to the class and generous samples of all the drinks covered in class. Students also get 20% off our selection of vermouths, bitters, mixers, and barware to help enhance your home bar (spirits excluded by NC State law). Plus recipe cards detailing the drinks, syrups, infusions, and methods covered in class.

Arrive early for dinner with Charley King’s Jamaican Jerk Food Truck

We’ve got the tables, the drinks, and the food.

You bring your favorite board game, card game, or RPG and settle in for a fun night with friends.

Wednesdays from 5-8pm.

A Dungeons & Dragons 1-shot session run by a professional GM right next to our beautiful copper stills. A truly unique gaming experience.

Dungeons and Drafts is a company that runs games in breweries, distilleries, and other fine establishments and has been rolling dice in the Asheville area for over a year. They supply the GM, the dice, the characters, and everything else needed to play. All experience levels welcome.

We’ve got the tables, the drinks, and the food.

You bring your favorite board game, card game, or RPG and settle in for a fun night with friends.

Wednesdays from 5-8pm.

Sign-ups to share will begin 15 minutes prior to the start of the event and fill up fast. We look forward to seeing you there!

Charley King wanted to prepare a very special, very limited Valentine’s dinner. So we cleared some tables for him.

A Very Special Jamaican Valentines Dinner

SATURDAY February 14th

Fixed Menu - Three Courses

20 available spots

Two Seatings - 5:30pm & 7:30pm

To reserve your spot please send a request to Charlie King Charleykingsceo@gmail.com

What’s on the menu?

Starter:

To be announced

Entree:

Herb Crusted Salmon - Pan seared salmon topped with Jamaican garlic and herbs, roasted tomatoes, served with long grain rice & broccoli ($25)

or

Charcoal Grilled Ribeye Steak - Juicy rib eye grilled over natural charcoal, served with savory pot roast, steamed cabbage and creamy mashed potatoes ($28)

Dessert:

Chocolate cherry Swiss roll from New Stock

Oak & Grist will have our full menu available along with some special V-Day cocktails

Join us on Saturday 2/14 for a casual Valentine experience with an elegant feel.

Hand crafted cocktails paired with French Broad Chocolate’s Whiskey Caramel Bonbon.

We will feature a bacon washed Old Fashioned and Strawberry Rose Spritz along with our full cocktail, wine, beer, and NA menu. The number of bonbons is limited so come early to enjoy this decadent combo.

And if you want to treat the whiskey or gin lover in your life with something special why not come early for our production tour and spirit tasting from 1-2pm? As WNCs only fully grain to glass distillery we offer a one of a kind tour experience.

A great way to start a special Saturday before heading out for a night of clubbing, romantic dinner, or (as we like to do) going home and chilling with pets and friends.

Speaking of romantic dinner, our resident chef Charley King is planning something special for folks looking for an offbeat V-day dining experience. Three course pre fixe menu served amongst our beautiful copper stills. Seating at 5:30 & 7:30pm. Email Charley for details and reservations.

Charleykingsceo@gmail.com

Following such a great showing of community with our previous Wool for Warmth events we wanted to continue our partnership with Black Mountain Yarn Shop and provide an open and welcoming environment for folks to sit, knit, socialize, eat, & drink.

All skill levels all projects welcome.

This will be an ongoing open knit night on the second Thursday of each month.

We’ve got the tables, the drinks, and the food.

You bring your favorite board game, card game, or RPG and settle in for a fun night with friends.

Wednesdays from 5-8pm.

Join our head bartender Arah as she explores a classic February combination of chocolate and strawberries, but in cocktail form.

She will teach you how to make a homemade whiskey cream (think Bailey’s but better) to incorporate into a spiked French Broad Chocolate hot chocolate. And will discuss some different ways to incorporate additional flavors into your cocoa creation through liqueurs such as spicy ancho or coffee based spirits.  

Our second drink is a strawberry infused gin spritz with elderflower liqueur, citrus, and topped with sparkling for a light bubbly refreshing cocktail.  

A ticket gets admission to the class and a cocktail to sip on during class, plus recipe cards detailing the drinks, syrups, infusions, and methods covered in class.

Study Hall at Oak & Grist Distilling is your chance to listen and learn from local experts and scholars. We are bringing specialists from a wide variety of fields to the distillery to speak on what they know best. Come curious, ask questions, sip something good and connect with good humans.

We’ve got two speakers for you this month, Tera Pruett & Luis Baltierrez. Their combined talk will be on Training with Intention.

Together, they’ll break down how to build real, sustainable strength, why chasing fitness trends doesn’t work, and how the body adapts when training is done with intention. The focus is exercise prescription—what to do, why it matters, and how to make it work for real life over the long haul. Nutrition will make a quick cameo, but movement, consistency, community, and real-life application take center stage.

About Tera & Luis

My name is Luis Baltierrez, and for the past 10 years I’ve had the opportunity and blessing to make an impact in people’s lives through fitness and health. I truly believe our bodies were created to move and do great things.

Being a coach is extremely rewarding—it’s exciting, it challenges me, and it’s allowed me to grow in countless ways while giving me the tools to become a better coach, leader, and human. I’ve seen what people are capable of with determination, resilience, and the support of a strong community. Stepping onto the floor, throwing kettlebells, and competing is something special—and it’s an experience I want others to feel too.

Through Caffeine N Fitness, my focus is community—showing up, supporting one another, and celebrating the people who make this space what it is. We’re here to help, guide, and build something bigger together.

I’m Tera Pruett—strength, endurance, and adventure coach with over 20 years of experience and zero interest in quick-fix fitness BS. I coach for the long haul: smart exercise prescription, consistency over perfection, and building strength that supports real life inside the gym and out on the trails.

Connection is at the heart of my coaching. My clients aren’t just people I train—they’re community, chosen family, and humans I’m deeply invested in. This work is about building trust, resilience, and capable bodies that last through seasons of life, not just a few weeks.

Through The Unstoppable Rebel Collective and my work alongside Caffeine N Fitness, I’m here to build strong humans, strong relationships, and a community rooted in movement, adventure, and showing up together.

Study Hall NOTES

First Tuesday of every month. Doors open at 6:00pm and class starts at 6:30pm. Topics will last approximately 45 minutes, with time for Q&A at the end.

Do you or someone you know have a wealth of knowledge you are bursting to share? Please reach out to Brett at bar@oakandgirst.com with your topic of choice and a brief outline.

A Dungeons & Dragons 1-shot session run by a professional GM right next to our beautiful copper stills. A truly unique gaming experience.

Dungeons and Drafts is a company that runs games in breweries, distilleries, and other fine establishments and has been rolling dice in the Asheville area for over a year. They supply the GM, the dice, the characters, and everything else needed to play. All experience levels welcome.

January 21st, 2026

6:30pm - 8:00PM

Experience whiskey like we do at our quarterly vertical tasting

straight from the barrel warehouse.

At BARREL PROOF Vol. 03 you will get a chance to explore the impact that time has on our whiskey. We will be exploring spirit from 2 year, 4 year, and 6 year casks; controlled for barrel type and char level. Additionally, our founder William will discuss how distillery character is impacted by maturation length; as well as how the unique climate in western North Carolina drives how long we age our spirits. The vertical tasting lasts 1 ½ hours and participants must be 21+

BARREL PROOF is an evolution of our belief in transparency and education. Each experience in this series puts maturation under microscope and gives guests a distiller’s perspective into the nuances of how we age our whiskey. Each volume will explore different aspects of our maturation and how they help shape our American single malt. You may even have an opportunity to try some of our upcoming releases. Your host distiller will also provide tips & tricks to getting the most out of your whiskey.

Can’t make this one? Don’t worry, we are offering this experience quarterly; January 21st, April 15th, July 15th & October 21st.

Sign-ups to share will begin 15 minutes prior to the start of the event and fill up fast. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join the MountainTrue team and Oak and Grist as we clean up the trash left behind by Hurricane Helene in the Swannanoa River. We will be removing trash and debris along the riparian areas. Please note this will be a land-based clean-up. All volunteers are invited for free food after the clean-up, sponsored by Oak & Grist.

Please wear closed-toe shoes, long pants, and long sleeves (and waders if you have them), and bring drinking water, lunch/snacks, and perhaps a change of clothes for afterward in case you get wet or dirty. We will have plenty of trash bags, gloves, safety glasses, and buckets for use, along with some hand tools such as shovels, loppers, hand saws, rakes, etc. However, feel free to bring your own if you would like. We will have our dump trailer there for the removal of collected garbage and recyclables.

Location

The exact location will be emailed to participants closer to the event date. Location is largely based on where the Army Corps of Engineers is working, parking, and other factors. We expect to be in or around Swannanoa, NC.

You’re invited to the after-party

Our friends at Oak & Grist will feed all volunteers and their immediate family members for free at their distillery after the clean-up.

Oak & Grist Distilling Company
1556 Grovestone Rd
Black Mountain, NC 28711

The after-celebration starts around 3:30 pm. Please make sure to RSVP so they can ensure there is enough food for everyone.

Oak & Grist will also be contributing 5% of seasonal cocktail, beer, and wine sales for the day to MountainTrue. So tell your friends that even if they can’t make the clean up, they can still support our efforts by raising a glass for a good cause.

Wool for Warmth, a night of good will, knitting, drinks, & fun. (Free Event)

In partnership with Black Mountain Yarn Shop

At Oak & Grist we have a passion for transforming the goods the earth provides into something unique and special. With that in mind we invite you to join us for our second Wool for Warmth event.

Wool for Warmth is back for a second night of knitting, drinks, food, and good will. Join us Thursday January 15th from 6:30-8pm to craft winter weather gear for those who need it most. 

Oak & Grist has a small amount of donated yarn and patterns available for free. But this event is open to all knitters and folks can bring their own yarn and patterns, or Black Mountain Yarn Shop will have some supplies for sale at Oak & Grist the night of the event. 

Didn’t attend the first night? That’s OK. Come and join us anyways. The more fantastic folks knitting the more we can help our community. 

Even if you couldn’t attend please consider dropping off new scarves, hats, gloves, & socks before January 25th. We will be donating all the goods before the end of the month to Appalachian Community Relief.

When your hands need a rest we have a full bar with cocktails, mocktails, beer, wine, & local soda along with Charley King's Jamaican Jerk food truck.

Join our head bartender Arah as she treks into the world of mocktails, spirit alternatives, and house made sodas.

We will explore non-alcoholic spirits, replicating boozy profiles with tea & other pantry ingredients, and creating a house made soda. This is a class that will cover some bartending skills such as making a simple syrup from fresh herbs, mixing a drink to match your desired profile, and most importantly being playful yet intentional in choosing ingredients to craft something uniquely you. All skills that will stay with you on your bartending journey in January and beyond. 

A ticket gets admission to the class and a mocktail to sip on (or a cocktail if you aren’t making January dry)

Kicking off the new year with something different. Free Event!

Study Hall at Oak & Grist Distilling is your chance to listen and learn from local experts and scholars. We are bringing specialists from a wide variety of fields to the distillery to speak on what they know best. Grab a drink, sit back, and learn something new.

Our first speaker is Leonora Stefanile and she will be digging into one of her favorite subjects: Flower Gardening in Southern Appalachia

Add beauty to your garden, home, and plate with flower gardening. Learn which plants are easy to grow while providing cut flowers, edible flowers, and year-round color in the garden. Special focus will be given to incorporating native flowers into your garden, to better support pollinators, songbirds, soil vitality, and overall ecosystem health.

About Leonora:

Leonora Stefanile is the manager of the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden in Black Mountain, NC where she and her team of staff and volunteers grow flowers and vegetables for Bounty & Soul's no-cost markets so that all in the community can enjoy the heart-lifting beauty of flowers along with nourishing, fresh produce. She is also the farmer/owner of Hummingbird Waltz Flowers, a small organic flower farm and florist based in Asheville, NC, where she and her team provide fresh and dried cut flower bouquets locally.  Leonora also has a background in native plant landscaping, specializing in native wildflower pollinator gardens in residential settings.

Study Hall NOTES

First Tuesday of every month. Doors open at 6:00pm and class starts at 6:30pm. Topics will last approximately 45 minutes, with time for Q&A at the end.

Do you or someone you know have a wealth of knowledge you are bursting to share? Please reach out to Brett at bar@oakandgirst.com with your topic of choice and a brief outline.

please welcome to the uleaf stage

MIKE MARTINEZ

MONDAY | November 24th | 5pm - 7pm

Mike Martinez lives in Asheville, N.C., and is known around the country as a songwriter, vocalist, rapper, activist, frontman, and member of the bands Beekeepers and Natural Born Leaders.

For Industry Night, every Monday from 5pm-7pm, the ULEAF stage will feature musicians from around Western North Carolina. True to the LEAF mission, the stage will host a global sound with influences from around the world and from a variety of genres. Every show is FREE to attend.

If you would like to help further the LEAF mission you are welcome to make a donation to their Artist Relief Fund either on their website or in person at the show. We will see you on Saturdays!