Wicked Weed Brewing, one of Asheville’s popular craft breweries located on Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville, is planning to open a second tasting room just for its sour beers at 147 Coxe Ave. on the city’s South Slope.

Wicked Weed spokeswoman Abby Dickinson said Friday that the new location will allow the brewery to move offices and its beer barrel storage all into one location, a 9,000-square-foot space. The building is across the street from the new Twin Leaf Brewing at the corner of Coxe Avenue and Banks Avenue. It is in the heart of what’s known as downtown’s South Slope, an area bubbling with new development action.

Dickinson said Wicked Weed’s barrel storage facility in Fairview is full with 350 barrels of sour beer. Wicked Weed’s sour beers are brewed and then must be aged in barrels for four to eight months, she said. The new location will also give the brewery much-needed office space.

The plan is to open in July or August, Dickinson said.

Wicked Weed is fast becoming well-known for its sour beers. The brewery won a prestigious gold-medal in a national competition for a beer in that style last year, and its new line of bottled beers are all sour beers.

“It’s more shelf-stable and it’s a great niche, a great place for us to get known,” Dickinson said.

She added that Wicked Weed is excited to be moving to the South Slope, where so much new development activity is happening.