As a V-Day treat to local craft beer lovers, Quest will be releasing one of their most-loved beers in cans for the first time on the 14th. Kaldi Imperial Coffee Stout, the Greenville brewery’s flagship 8% stout brewed with local West End Coffee, will be hitting cans for the first time this weekend. It’ll be ...
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RJ Rockers’ long-in-the-works barrel-aging program will see its debut this Friday, Feb. 13, with the release of a whiskey barrel-aged version of their seasonal black IPA. For the first release in the series, the Spartanburg brewery opted to let their 9.5% seasonal Black Perle Dark IPA age in Knob Creek bourbon and Chattanooga whiskey ...
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Hot on the heels of their second anniversary party and the release of The Finisher, Conquest is readying yet another special one-off bottle release for one of their most popular beers. Last week, Conquest announced they would be releasing a Vanilla Knob Creek barrel-aged version of Harlequin, their 9% fall seasonal imperial stout brewe ...
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The annual RateBeer Best Awards for 2014 were fully unveiled Friday, and in more or less a repeat of last year’s awards, numerous breweries and beer spots in South Carolina claimed titles based on user reviews and rankings. Westbrook again claimed the title for Best Brewery, Best Tap Room and Best Beer (Mexican Cake) for South ...
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Holy City, the first South Carolina brewery to capitalize on the so-called Stone Law by opening a kitchen last year, is getting ready to expand that operation in February by adding a Charleston-area chef to the staff and expanding its kitchen space and menu options for visitors. HCB announced earlier this week that Suelto (Spanish for ...
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In the wake of its first anniversary party on Jan. 31, Brewery 85 will be holding back-to-back releases for two new barrel-aged variants of their beers in February. The Greenville brewery has been amassing a respectable barrel program since opening early last year and has already released a handful of barrel-aged beers, including a Van Win ...
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Seminar Brewing is on track to become the third South Carolina brewery to begin packaging its product for distribution thanks to a new mobile bottling company. Bottle Works, a mobile bottling and canning business run by John Fleck, is responsible for bottling product for Conquest in Columbia and Benford in Lancaster. Fleck will soon a ...
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Quest has hit the ground running in 2015. Having recently expanded distribution into North Carolina’s Triad region, the Greenville brewery is gearing up for its second barrel-aged bottle release this coming Saturday, Jan. 10. Rum BA Imperial Smoking Mirror Porter will be the next corked-and-caged 750 ml release from Quest. The beer is a 9 ...
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The Finisher, Conquest Brewing Co.’s massive anniversary imperial stout, returns this month as the Columbia brewery readies to celebrate its second anniversary. And as with the inaugural 2014 release, the brewery is planning a day-long party to celebrate the beer’s release, which this year includes two bourbon barrel-aged variants. ...
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As the brewery approaches its first anniversary (which is being held Jan. 31), Brewery 85 is readying to expand its distribution footprint in the new year, as well as work toward canning some of its core brands. Having expanded into the Columbia market in late 2014, the Greenville brewery announced Tuesday it’ll be con ...
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