
Columbia’s River Rat blows out an extra candle on its birthday cake this weekend as the Shop Road brewery celebrates its second anniversary with an “Everyone’s a VIP”-style party.

Columbia’s River Rat blows out an extra candle on its birthday cake this weekend as the Shop Road brewery celebrates its second anniversary with an “Everyone’s a VIP”-style party.

The Cottontown neighborhood in Columbia, a small historic region off North Main Street, is slated to be the home of one of the city’s newest breweries later this year.
After more than a year of searching, Columbia’s Hunter-Gatherer brewpub has announced the location of its future production brewery, which is now scheduled to open mid 2016.
Soda City Suds Week, Columbia’s independently run craft beer celebration, will return for its second year March 18-26, 2016.
Swamp Cabbage, Columbia’s third production brewery, will host a daylong anniversary party this Sunday, Aug. 16, to celebrate their first year of brewing in the Capital City.
Here’s something you don’t see every day: Columbia’s Conquest Brewing Co. was aided by a Penny, an African elephant, from Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo, in picking ingredients for a beer that will be exclusively brewed for the zoo’s upcoming Brew at the Zoo beer festival.
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.