Columbia’s Hunter-Gatherer planning new, separate brewery for 2015

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Hunter-Gatherer Brewery & Alehouse has been a staple of Columbia’s beer community since opening in 1995, acting as a sort of forefather for the Capital City’s now-blossoming craft beer scene. While other local beer establishments have come and gone, Hunter-Gatherer has weathered the storm and remained an incredibly popular spot in Columbia. But while the Main Street brewpub has been a favorite haunt of many for a long time, it’s largely remained the same place for nearly two decades.

That will change in 2015 as a new and separate Hunter-Gatherer Brewery will open in the city. But unlike its locally focused brewpub brethren, this new facility aims to make Hunter-Gatherer a statewide name.

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Deschutes may give SC “another look” for expansion

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One of the goals of the soon-to-become-law Stone Bill – aside from allowing current in-state breweries to expand – was to make South Carolina more attractive to larger national breweries, the bill’s namesake included. And now comes news that the Palmetto State is back on the radar of another big-name brewery, should they decide to open a satellite location.

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