2019 Craft Brewers Conference

Brock Ashburn
VP of Operations
Highland Brewing Company


Brock Ashburn works at Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina. His role has morphed from staff engineer and contractor around 2011, to VP of Operations today. At the same time, he serves as husband of the president, and son-in-law of the founder. He has been self-employed as a licensed engineer since 1998 and as a general contractor since 2000, with a breadth of design/build experience in residential, commercial, and site development/construction. At Highland, inheriting a building that was originally built in the 1950's and added to over the next 20 years has presented Highland with many challenges. These challenges have provided the opportunity to recycle, reuse, and improve many systems and processes in the brewery during the seemingly unending construction cycle of hospitality-related facilities, packaging hall upgrades, brewhouse enhancements, solar array additions, etc. over the last 5 years. Brock seeks to continue the trend of sustainability and reduction of energy use while implementing new and improved machines, systems, and processes throughout the facility.

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