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After more than a year of searching, Greenville’s Fireforge Crafted Beer on Wednesday announced the new location for their upcoming brewery, which is expected to open this summer. Nearly two years ago, Brian and Nicole Cendrowski relocated their fledgling Coxbone Brewing Co. operation from Florida to back to Greenville, where they ha ...

Anderson’s Carolina Bauernhaus and Charleston’s Freehouse Brewery will release the first bottles of their new collaboration series this weekend. Freehaus, as the series has been dubbed, is a collaboration in which “our breweries are sharing barrels, yeast, and most importantly ideas,” according to a release. Ju ...

Less than five months after launching in the Palmetto State, Asheville’s Burial Beer Co. announced Wednesday they would be ending distribution in South Carolina. In a statement posted on the brewery’s Facebook page, Burial said concerns about accounts being able to maintain the quality of their product lead them to end their di ...

In its January issue, BeerAdvocate Magazine not only dubs Greenville’s Birds Fly South Ale Project as one of the best new breweries in the country but even features brewery founders Shawn and Lindsay Johnson on its cover. The annual list – which is voted on by readers and contributors of the magazine – compiles ...

Spartanburg’s RJ Rockers is keeping in theme this Black Friday by releasing three different variants of barrel-aged Black Perle Dark IPA. The release event itself will be for bottles of Double Barrel Black Perle, a blend of 55% aged in Pinot Noir wine barrels and 45% aged in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels. Each of the ...

Ballots this past Election Day in 13 counties, cities and towns across South Carolina included referendums that allowed voters to choose whether their respective areas would allow bars and retail stores to sell alcohol on Sundays. And in all 13 regions, the respective measure passed. Sunday sales of alcohol – whether on premise or at ...

Mount Pleasant’s Westbrook Brewing Co. quietly announced ticket sales earlier this week for the oft-desired barrel-aged variants of Mexican Cake (their annual cocoa nib, vanilla bean, cinnamon and habanero imperial stout), which will be released at the brewery on Saturday. As opposed to previous BAMC releases, Westbrook didn&rsq ...

It’s hard to believe Greenville’s Community Tap bar and beer & wine store has been hosting its annual eponymous craft beer festival for almost half a decade now. But on April 29, 2017, the gathering of select regional and national breweries returns for its fifth year, this time being held at the city’s Fluor Field. ...

Charlotte, NC’s Birdsong Brewing Co. is the latest beer maker from just across the border to begin distribution to parts of the Palmetto State. This week, the Queen City brewery began distribution to the Rock Hill, Fort Mill and Columbia regions through Comer Distributing Co. The brewery’s flagship Jalapeño Pale Ale (a 5 ...

The 30th Great American Beer Festival wrapped up in Denver, CO this past weekend with the event’s annual award ceremony. Thousands of beers and hundreds of breweries compete to have their entries snag a top-three placement in a wide range of styles. This year, Charleston’s Revelry and Travelers Rest’s Swamp Rabb ...