Barley’s planning ‘Most Arrogant Bash’ featuring Stone CEO

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Of the more than 360 bars that participated in the Stone‘s Most Arrogant Bar Challenge of 2012, Barley’s in Greenville managed to come out on top, selling the most Stone Arrogant beers during the month of October.

To celebrate, the brewery is throwing a party this June, and who better to celebrate the joy of Stone’s selections than the brewery founder himself, CEO Greg Koch.

More specific details about the event will be announced later – all Barely’s knows for now is it’ll be at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 13 – but you can expect some pontificating from the bearded one and tons of unique and rare Stone beers on tap.

Windy Hill launches new hoppy cider

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At the Beertopia festival in Fort Mill on Saturday, the Windy Hill Orchard and Cidery in York released Hoppin Johnny, a 6% dry-hopped hard cider. The hoppy cider was made with Stayman Winesap apples and dry-hopped with whole left hops grown at the cidery. It’s not clear what hops were used for the dry-hopping, but Willamette, Perle, Cascade, Saaz and others are grown on location.

The cider is expected to hit Windy Hill’s markets this week.