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Craft Beer Is A Family Business: Meet Leah Wong Ashburn

WUNC | By Charlie Shelton-Ormond,
Frank Stasio
Published October 19, 2015 at 11:50 AM EDT
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Leah Wong Ashburn has been around beer all her life.

Her father Oscar Wong is considered the "godfather" of craft beer culture in western North Carolina. In 1994, he founded Highland Brewing Company, the first legal brewer in Asheville since Prohibition. Today, Highland is the largest homegrown craft brewery in North Carolina.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Leah Wong Ashburn about Highland as a family business and the growing number of women working in a flourishing craft beer market. 

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Charlie Shelton-Ormond
Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for WUNC.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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