Ok, so I’ve gotten a bunch of calls from folks thinking this is being released at the brewery. It is not. We are not allowed to do that. The release is being held at the Charleston Beer Exchange, downtown. Noon on SUnday.
Also, I hear EVO is putting the only draft of this on tap tonight (Saturday). You might want to call and make sure though.
Also, since we will be out of town this Friday (the original deadline), we will be accepting homebrew entries on Saturday, February 28 until 1 pm.
is ready to go. A three month age in a whiskey barrel was just about perfect. Plenty of wood and vanilla and a nice balance of whiskey notes without being overwhelming. Nice.
Bottles will be hitting the Charleston Beer Exchange and draft at EVO- the next week or two.
From Barleys:
Charleston South Carolina’s own! Join us along with Dave & Jaime from Coast Brewing Co. as we tap not one but TWO Coast firkins! We’ll have one filled with the extremely limited & extremely delicious Blackbeard the Imperial Stout & one filled with HopArt IPA. Barley’s Taproom is the only place outside of Charleston to enjoy these delicious brews. Come out early and show Dave & Jaime how much Greenville enjoys their new local brewery!
Please note: the Blackbeerd Cask is not a typical one. This one is HIGHLY experimental- open fermented, cocoa nibs, coffee and whatever else was laying around at the time.
Get Brewing! Enter the first ever lowcountry homebrew competition. Here are the details. You can drop off your entry at COAST and it’s AHA sanctioned. ‘Bout time.
SO as you all know, in South Carolina you can either be a brewpub (on premise sales only) or a micro (off premise sales only). My group , SC Brewer’s Association (formerly Pop the Cap), is working to allow dual license flexibilty. In our case, we’ll keep doing what we’re doing but will be also be able to operate as a brewpub for on premise sales. Rep. Herbkersman will be introducing our bill this month in Columbia. Now, if it passes no problem, we hope to add the taproom this summer. Let’s assume the worst though, it doesn’t pass. Distribution costs are absolutely killing us, would it be a smart move to completely abandon being a micro in favor of only on premise sales. Can we sell that much in pints, growlers, bottles etc? If you had to choose, would you rather have your pint of HopArt at the 38 tap locations in town or ONLY at the brewery?
And yes, it sucks to have to choose between them and we sincerely hope this bill passes and we won’t have to.
Decisions.
Please stay tuned for updates on the bill and what you can do to help.
edited to add: It would be oh so fun to have our version of a Dark Lord Day, wouldn’t it?!
