Tony Kiss

ASH

Highland Brewing will host a four-mile nighttime foot race July 12, starting and ending at the brewery, and benefiting the Asheville Greenways Foundation.

The Night Flight Race will begin at 8 p.m. at the brewery, 12 Old Charlotte Highway, and as runners cross the finish line about an hour later, they can celebrate at release party for Highland’s latest 20th American Saison anniversary beer. A colorful, brightly-lit DJ tent will be erected in the brewery meadow.

You don’t have to run the race to attend the beer release party. But runners will get a shirt, a cup and their first beer is on the house. The fee to participate is $43, with 100 percent of proceeds going to the development of a planned greenway along the Swannanoa river.

The race course will head down the steep driveway at Highland and continue through the Beverly Hills neighborhood in east Asheville. Runners will not have to return back up the driveway, but will instead complete the course through the wooded area adjacent to the brewery. “This is not a flat course,” said Highland vice president Leah Wong Ashburn. The race is limited to 800 runners.

The American Saison party will feature DJ Medisin spinning a variety of of electronic dance music tunes and styles at the ENO Lotus Lounge tent, that includes two ENO hammocks.