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Beer Christmas is back, y’all. Charleston’s sixth annual Brewvival beer festival has been scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 from noon to 5 PM. As usual, the festival will be held at the field across from COAST Brewing Co. – one of the event’s sponsors, along with the Charleston Beer Exchange – and feature brewe ...

Back in June, Quest Brewing Co. teased a possible future expansion into the state of North Carolina following visits to the state. Last week, they announced a deal had been finalized and that the Greenville brewery would begin distribution northward by year’s end. The expansion will begin later this fall starting in the Charlotte and ...

Holy City’s seasonal Bowen’s Island Oyster Stout will join the brewery’s growing lineup of canned offerings next month, the brewery announced Friday. The oyster seasonal beer is a 5.8% Irish dry stout brewed with two bushels (45-60 lbs.) of oysters per 15 BBL batch collected from Bowen’s Island outside of Charleston. ...

  Cigar City Brewing – which has been in negotiations to begin distribution in South Carolina soon – is looking to build a separate brewery in addition to its Tampa base, and South Carolina is on the shortlist to host it, according to a new report. Thursday, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported Cigar City has bee ...

  The winner of the 2014 Iron Brew homebrewing competition will be crowned this Saturday at Holy City following an afternoon-long showcase of the participating homebrewers. The annual competition, now in its third year, brings together homebrewers from across the state for the chance to have their work brewed on Holy City’s prod ...

  While it’s been expected and rumored for some time, Boulevard Brewing Co. announced Monday their upcoming expansion into South Carolina’s market. Since being purchased by Duvel Moortgat USA in 2013, the Kansas City, MO, staple has been expected to expand its distribution footprint. With a launch in Florida happening ...

Conquest on Tuesday announced the return date for The Finisher, its massive anniversary imperial stout, which next year will be joined by three new variants. Back on Jan. 25 of this year, the Columbia brewery held the inaugural release for The Finisher, a 17.5% imperial stout brewed with brown sugar and honey and fermented with ...

The number of breweries representing the Palmetto State at the 32nd annual Great American Beer Festival – being held in Denver, CO this week, Oct. 2-4 – has tripled from last year, with nine of South Carolina’s finest making their way to the country’s largest beer festival and competition. In 2013, plagued by technical d ...

The brands represented by Charleston’s RAFA Distributing continue to grow with the “just good shit” specialists recently adding two new breweries to their lineup: Colorado’s Crooked Stave and Oklahoma’s Prairie Artisan Ales. Crooked Stave, which specializes in sour and funky beers, was rumored to beg ...

Get ready to rumble (and wake up awfully early on a Saturday). After months of mounting anticipation, Westbrook announced Thursday that this Saturday, Sept. 20, will be the release day for it’s 2014 edition of Barrel-aged Mexican Cake. The release comes about two months after initially expected, but all signs point to an ev ...