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Columbia’s River Rat blows out an extra candle on its birthday cake this weekend as the Shop Road brewery celebrates its second anniversary with an “Everyone’s a VIP”-style party. The past year has been a big one for the Capital City’s second production brewery. They’ve expanded their food offerings thanks to ...

Columbia’s River Rat blows out an extra candle on its birthday cake this weekend as the Shop Road brewery celebrates its second anniversary with an “Everyone’s a VIP”-style party. The past year has been a big one for the Capital City’s second production brewery. They’ve expanded their food offerings thanks to ...

The Cottontown neighborhood in Columbia, a small historic region off North Main Street, is slated to be the home of one of the city’s newest breweries later this year. The North Main region of Columbia has seen a good bit of growth in recent years with the opening of the Vino Garage beer and wine ...

Today, James Island’s Tradesman brewery is getting ready for the release of its first two barrel-aged beers, which will be available at the brewery later this week. Bottling began Monday morning on the two upcoming releases: BA Coconuts & Bolts, an 8.5% chocolate coconut stout, and BA Elbow Grease, a 10.5% imperial red ry ...

This weekend will be full of beer-related events in the Charleston area as drinkers descend on the city for the annual Brewvival beer festival. The day after the festival, award-winning Revelry Brewing Co. will host its first-ever bottle release event, at which they’ll be dropping three four releases. While Revelry’s been ...

Regularly ranked as one of the best beer stores in the world, The Charleston Beer Exchange has announced plans to rename itself along with relocating to the area next the Edmund’s Oast brewpub. In a release, Edmund’s Oast & CBX owner Scott Shor said the shop will be moving from its current home on Exchange Street ...

Columbia’s Conquest Brewing Co. will celebrate its third anniversary this Saturday, Jan. 30, with the release of its annual monster imperial stout, The Finisher. The 17.5% beer – brewed with brown sugar and honey, then fermented with champagne yeast – is released once a year to celebrate the brewery’s birthday. ...

A few years ago, Westbrook launched its Bearded Farmer series of saisons, in which the brewery made “each successive beer a little (or a lot) differently than the ones before it.” This week marked the return of the series with its first release since since 2013. Thornhill, the fifth Bearded Farmer entry, is a 6.3% tart ...

Since its early days, Birds Fly South Ale Project has been contract brewing its Belgian- and farmhouse-inspired beers in Greenville. But last week, a new home for the fledgling brewery was announced, with an expected opening later this year. About a week ago, the Upstate Business Journal broke the news that BFS owner and bre ...

Last we heard, North Charleston’s COAST Brewing Company was very close to canning an expanded range of their beers, unveiling new packaging artwork as part of a rebranding effort. Those cans are still on the way – and soon – but a high demand for cans from breweries nationwide has caused COAST to shift its plans ...