About a month and a half ago, Columbia’s River Rat Brewery welcomed the crew from Tampa, FL’s Cigar City Brewing to brew a collaboration beer while the latter was in the Capital City for an event. The result of that collaboration – a sweet potato pie imperial stout – will make its debut in Columbia Tuesday, Nov. 24.
Greenville’s Quest and recent Florida transplant (and newly rebranded) Fireforge Crafted Beer will be releasing a collaboration lavender coffee stout in the Upstate this week.
A few weeks ago in a brewery not that far away, Columbia’s River Rat and Charleston’s Holy City got together to celebrate the annual Star Wars Day by collaborating on a new beer scheduled for release next Friday, June 5.
The second annual Greenville Craft Beer Week running from April 19-25 will again spotlight the beer and businesses that help make the Upstate city’s craft beer community what it is. And to help kick things off, three new collaborations from the city’s three breweries will be tapped at a special event this Sunday.
Quest recently hosted the fine folks from Asheville, NC’s Burial for a collaboration brew day, the result of which will debut in the Greenville brewery’s taproom Thursday, April 23.
At Brewvival 2014, Holy City Brewing and RJ Rockers released the collaborative Half Calf, a sweet stout brewed with local coffee. That collaboration, which has popped up on taps only sporadically since then, will be seeing a wider release in canned form.
The Palmetto State will soon be getting its own chapter of the Pink Boots Society, a nonprofit that works to help advance and empower women in the brewing industry. And to help raise awareness about the organization, breweries across the state will be participating in a collaborative kick-off brew day this Sunday, March 8.
