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Burning Can festival opens in Crab Creek

By Bill Moss, Published: July 15, 2016

Burning Can, the Oskar Blues festival featuring 43 brewers, food, eight bands, mountain biking and a beer relay, opens at 5 o'clock today and continues Saturday at the brewery-owned Reeb Ranch at 315 Shoals Falls Road just east of DuPont Road.

Festival organizers have been planning the event since last year's Burning Can, when out-of-state vendors had a problem with permitting for beer sales under North Carolina ABC rules.

"We started back in 2015," Aaron Baker, events manager for Oskar Blues, said in an interview today. "We've been trying to bring them through the process. It's a lengthy process and a little slower than brewers would like it to be."

After the problems with the beer permitting and traffic at Burning Can and the drowning death of a festival guest at an outdoor festival at Deerfields in Mills River the sheriff's office and Henderson County Planning Board proposed a festival permitting procedure. Transformus, an annual event at Deerfields, is also under way this weekend.

Although the Board of Commissioners rejected the planning board's proposal, Oskar Blues followed the outline of the planning anyway, Baker said.

"We actually used some of the things that they had put together for that ordinance," Baker said. "We did an emergency action plan and we met with the sheriff's department."

"Oskar Blues does have a permit," said John Mitchell, director of Business and Community Relations, said. "Transformus does not."

Besides 43 brewers from North Carolina and surrounding states, Burning Can features music, food and "the first ever beer drinking and trail running race."

For more information or to buy tickets visit BurningCan.

Weekend pass are $75. Friday price is $35. Saturday price is $60,  $75 on the day of the event.

From the website here are tips and the schedule.

What to Bring:  ID, sunscreen, and your ideal summer party arrangement. Bring cash to purchase from vendors and merchandise tent and to buy food available. Camp chairs are fine but please do not set them up close to the stage.

Schedule

Friday, July 15

3:00 p.m. – camping check-in begins
5:00 p.m. – festival area opens
6:00 p.m. – Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats
7:30 p.m. – The Bright Light Social Hour
8:00 p.m. – camping check-in ends
9:00 p.m. – Dumpstaphunk

Saturday, July 16

7:00 a.m. – breakfast available from Underground Baking Co.
8:30 a.m. – Beer Relay registration starts
9:00 a.m. – yoga starts
9:00 a.m. – road bike ride meets
9:00 a.m. – mountain bike ride meets
9:00 a.m. – paddle trip meets
9:00 a.m. – Cane Creek Bike Park opens
10:00 a.m. – Beer Relay race start
1:00 p.m. – VIP entry into the beer festival
2:00 p.m. – beer festival begins
2:00 p.m. – Beer Relay ends
2:00 p.m. – Cane Creek Bike Park closes
2:45 p.m. – Interstate Stash Express
4:00 p.m. – Major and the Monbacks
5:30 p.m. – Porch 40
6:00 p.m. – beer festival ends
7:15 p.m. – The Nth Power
9:00 p.m. – Galactic