A new website established to help South Carolinians voice their support for new craft beer-related legislation is beginning to gain attention and a groundswell of support in an effort to pass the so-called Stone Bill in the waning days of the SC Legislature. Create SC Beer Jobs launched earlier this week. The straightforward, simplist ...
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Last year, Charleston’s Circa 1886 hosted what it dubbed a Beer and Blue Jeans Dinner – an informal beer dinner for such an upscale restaurant – featuring a multi-course meal and spotlighting Westbrook. The event returns Friday, June 13, with a new local brewery in the spotlight: Freehouse The four-course meal p ...
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Following the recent departure of former Abita Brewmaster Mark Walters from Columbia’s River Rat, the brewery has hired a former regional beer rep and avid homebrewer to join the brewing team. Tyler Pawelkop, a Tampa, FL native and the former product and general manager of Columbia’s World of Beer, began working at th ...
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Conquest teased some “big” news early last week, setting off speculation as to what exactly the brewery had in store. A new release? New packaging? The long-awaited arrival of the second heir to the Conquest throne? While it didn’t arrive on schedule, the brewery still announced the “big” news before the ...
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American Craft Beer Week is coming May 12-18 and breweries across the country will be hosting various events to help celebrate the occasion. For Greenville’s Brewery 85, that means the release of a new beer and the christening of their outdoor beer garden. On Saturday, May 17, Brewery 85 will celebrate ACBW with Wheatfest 2014 ...
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A few weeks ago, during the inaugural Greenville Craft Beer Week, a brewery dubbing itself HopRiot announced it would be opening in the Greenville area sometime soon. The brewery is reportedly still in the planning stages, but when it does open, it seems as if they’ll be named something other than HopRiot. “Sorry about the ...
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One of the East Coast’s – and arguably the country’s – best imperial IPAs returns to the Palmetto State starting today. COAST announced Thursday morning that it had begun bottling the latest batch of its Boy King DIPA, scheduling bottle sales to begin at the brewery Thursday afternoon. It’s the first batch of ...
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The Honor Flight program is a nationwide service that regularly takes World War II and other veterans from wherever they are in the US to Washington, D.C., to visit their respective memorials and experience the Nation’s Capital, whether its their first or hundredth time. With some 600-plus WWII vets dying every day, the program ...
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This week marks a milestone for The Community Tap as the Upstate craft beer and wine store holds the grand opening for its new, expanded store. Back in December, TCT announced it would be moving out of its current location at 205 Wade Hampton Blvd. in Greenville’s Stone’s Point shopping center and down a few storefron ...
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When it comes to Stone Brewing Co.’s move from the Left Coast, my opinion is one I’ve kept quite some time now, but one I can’t seem to shake or change no matter what angle I approach the issue from. Maybe it’s because I haven’t wanted to go against the grain with so many friends and professionals in ...
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