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The winners of the 2017 U.S. Open Beer Championship were announced Monday morning, with Revelry Brewing, Birds Fly South Ale Project and Tradesman Brewing all picking up new hardware. More than 6,000 beers entered in 100+ different styles were entered into the annual competition, which features both professional breweries and homebrew ...

Right before the South Carolina Legislature ended its session for the year, three new pieces of legislation passed (and subsequently signed into law) will give alcohol producers in the state more opportunities to grow and distribute their product.   In short, the three new laws allow for the following: Breweries and brewpubs can donate bee ...

6 In the aftermath of Wicked Weed Brewing‘s acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the brewery’s charitable Funkatorium Invitational sour festival scheduled for July 8 – which featured 70 breweries from across the country – was scrapped after a majority of the breweries dropped out. But before the festival was ax ...

In the wake of the news that Ashville’s Wicked Weed Brewery will be acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev, multiple craft brewers have withdrawn from the brewery’s upcoming Funkatorium Invitational beer festival scheduled for July. On Thursday, Greenville’s Birds Fly South Ale Project – the only South Carolina brewe ...

Two award-winning Charleston-area homebrewers are planning to open Commonhouse Aleworks in North Charleston’s Park Circle community later this year. Named after the colonial common houses popular throughout the community, Commonhouse is the brainchild of Hank Hanna and Pearce Fleming, the duo better known by their Octohops Homebrew m ...

Tonight is the season opener for the Columbia Fireflies, the city’s minor league baseball team, and Tim Tebow won’t be the only new addition to Spirit Communications Park. Columbia’s River Rat Brewery has been tapped with brewing a signature beer for the team and will make its public debut at the game Thursday evenin ...

  Fall’s come early for Anderson’s Carolina Bauernhaus and Greenville’s Brewery 85, which will release their collaborative golden sour brewed with local apples and spices this weekend. Mulleficent (get it?) is a 5.5% ABV barrel-aged golden sour blended with more than 800 pounds of fresh apples from Long ...

Columbia’s Capital City Club, as part of the third annual Soda City Suds Week, will host a panel of brewers, distributors, business owners and more to discuss the past, present and future of the city’s craft beer scene. The club has recently begun an overhaul of its food menu as well as a revamped beer list ...

After just shy of three years in their current location, Florence’s Seminar Brewing recently announced the move to a much larger facility in the city. Seminar’s owners have already started the move from their current 1,100-square-foot facility in the Florence Mall shopping center to a 13,000-square-foot space at 551 W ...

Columbia’s Conquest Brewing Co. celebrates its fourth anniversary this Saturday, Jan. 28, with the annual release of its massive imperial stout, The Finisher. Every year, the brewery celebrates its birthday with a bottle release event for the 17.5% imperial stout brewed with brown sugar and honey and fermented with champagne yeas ...