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Three representatives from the South Carolina Brewers Guild will be representing the state at the 2015 Craft Brewers Conference during a seminar on winning over special interests. On Tuesday, Brewers Guild Executive Director Brook Bristow announced the Guild’s seminar – From Bill to Growler Fill: How Brewers Can Win Over S ...

Between staff turnovers and the arrival of a brewery namesake’s first child, 2014 has been a relatively slow year for the normally new release-heavy Westbrook Brewing Co. But as they have every year since their inception, the Mount Pleasant brewery is getting ready to release another anniversary beer. Westbrook’s fourth anniver ...

With continued and expanded growth of South Carolina’s craft beer community throughout 2014 comes a renewed mission for the South Carolina Brewers Guild – formerly known as the South Carolina Brewers Association – which held its inaugural executive committee meeting in Charleston last week to begin plotting the course for SC b ...

As far as Columbia beer goes, Conquest is renowned for its darker offerings, including their Harlequin spiced imperial stout and The Finisher, its 17.5% anniversary imperial stout (which returns Jan. 24). But just as popular is Brutus, a 12.6% imperial stout first released earlier this year that will return to taps beginning this w ...

Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria in Greenville has scheduled its next multilevel Biggest Little Beer Fest for Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. The annual festival – a joint venture between Barley’s and downstairs neighbors The Trappe Door – will feature 125 beers from 40 breweries (local, national and international). Both floo ...

Brewery 85 is readying to tap another offering from their barrel-aging program, while at the same time sketching an outline for the program in the years to come. On Thursday, Nov. 20, the Greenville brewery will be releasing a version of its 6.4% Yeoman’s American Brown Ale that’s been aged for about 10 months in 12-Ye ...

The All About Beer Magazine-sponsored World Beer Festival returns to Columbia on Saturday, Jan. 17, and as they did last year, AAB representatives are collaborating with a Columbia brewery on a special beer for the event. Friday, staffers from the magazine stopped by Columbia’s River Rat Brewery to work on an American ...

Charleston’s Freehouse Brewery has been up and brewing for just about a year now, and the riverfront brewery plans to celebrate its first year in the Holy City this Saturday, Nov. 15, with its first anniversary party. Since opening last year, things have been going well for the organic brewery situated along the Ashley River. They&rs ...

A unique new brewpub is coming to the Greenville area in 2015, one which will not only showcase local and in-house craft beers, but allow homebrewers to brew and bottle their own recipes on the establishment’s system. The Upstate Craft Beer Co. plans to open next year in the former home of Clausen’s Bakery in Greenville. ...

In a surprise announcement this morning, San Diego-based Green Flashing Brewing Co. said it had acquired Alpine Beer Co., a much-hyped California brewery available only in the Golden State, with the two breweries striking a mutual production agreement. It’s is one that could bring much wider distribution for Alpine, including to ...