WooHoo! Our website is up! Brainstorm Design is the best! Check us out:

http://www.coastbrewing.com

From now on I will be posting the blog stuff over there. We’ll be adding pics to the gallery and some other final touches ….

Well, we didn’t get any of the hops that Samuel Adams was sharing. They had so many requests that they had to hold a lottery and poor little COAST didn’t get any. No English bitter for us I guess. Unless somebody has some extra just laying around???

Jim Koch is still cool in my book though!

Yup, we did it! We finally bottled some COAST, albeit not very much. HopArt IPA and Blackbeerd Imperial Stout are hitting Ted’s Butcher Block tomorrow- though I think he is holding them for a release on Saturday given the demand. Whole Foods will be getting some in the next little while and probably a smaller bit at Wine A While as well. I ‘ll update when I know for sure.

By the way, we busted out that 5 month conditioning Chocolate Rye Brown. It is still VERY good, but not superb so we won’t be officially selling that, but you might get a taste here and there just for kicks.

Another word on our bottles. We suggest drinking the HopArt fresh (not cellaring). The Blackbeerd, we *think* can be cellared for a while but since this is our first bottling run, we can’t say for sure. We’re doing all kinds of experiments at the brewery to try to determine shelf life and all that.

An All-Day Event of Food & Beer

Saturday, March 1st from 11-5 pm

We’re bringing together top local purveyors and artisans to celebrate Charleston’s culinary spirit. Featuring:

COAST Brewing Company (North Charleston)

Rio Bertolini Pasta (Charleston)

Whole Roast Lamb & Pork (Upstate Farmers Alliance)

Housemade Sausages (Ted’s Butcherblock)

Tastings with:

COAST Brewing Co. (32/50 Kolsch, HopArt IPA) All Day!

Bear Republic (Hop Rod, Red Rocket, Racer 5) 2-5pm

Schneider (Weisse, Aventinus, Aventinus Eisbock) 11-2pm

Oskar Blues (Dale’s, Old Chub, Gordon) 11-2pm

Brasserie D’Achouffe (La Chouffe, McChouffe, Houblon) 2-5p

Also, we will be releasing and tasting New Holland Night Tripper! (This will be at approximately 2:00pm)

Lots of Give Aways too!

$15/person includes all food, beer tastings & a pint of COAST beer!

Finally. After  a seemingly forever conditioning time, our Scotch Ale will be released Tuesday, March 4 from 6-8. It was brewed with Heather Tips and has wonderful caramel notes to please  your inner maltiness!
More details soon. See you at the Mushroom!

Just moments ago….. we finally got label approval for 3 of our beers! This was such  a long and arduous process (not to mention a learning curve), I am glad it’s done. For now anyway, until we brew more styles, which come to think of it we already have. So I guess I will be doing this again in the near future. For now, Cheers to HopArt IPA, Blackbeerd Imperial Stout and Rye Not Brown! (No Kolsch for now until we decide if 22 oz. would work for it).

Every Wednesday Night!! Grab some good mood food, specials on COAST beer and watch a surf flick on the big projector. Tell me there’s something better than this!!

The Homebrew Page (tab) has some updates.

We’re also putting together some kits to make it easier for some.

How Cool. The Southern Beer Society chose us as brewery of the month! It’s about time the South gets it’s own beer society since we are the last (and up and coming) beer frontier! So go ahead and join the forum. Now’s the time for the South to change it’s  attitude towards beer. Inttroductions: South meet craft beer, craft beer meet the South.  Ok, now that that’s over with, on with the good beer!

southernbeersociety.com