Charleston’s Freehouse Brewery has been up and brewing for just about a year now, and the riverfront brewery plans to celebrate its first year in the Holy City this Saturday, Nov. 15, with its first anniversary party.
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Freehouse labels approved, bottling begins this year
North Charleston’s Freehouse Brewery is planning to begin bottling some its beers later this year and has just received federal approval for one of its upcoming labels.
Freehouse featured at Beer and Blue Jeans Dinner
Last year, Charleston’s Circa 1886 hosted what it dubbed a Beer and Blue Jeans Dinner – an informal beer dinner for such an upscale restaurant – featuring a multi-course meal and spotlighting Westbrook. The event returns Friday, June 13, with a new local brewery in the spotlight: Freehouse
Freehouse launches in Columbia today
South Carolina’s current “newest brewery” title holder – Charleston’s Freehouse – will launch in its first market outside of the Lowcountry starting Wednesday.
After tap events throughout the greater Charleston area a few weeks back and opening to the public recently, the organic brewery will be available in Columbia for the first time. The city’s first keg of Green Door IPA will be tapped at The Vino Garage Wednesday afternoon.
With Freehouse having signed to Advintage for distribution, expect to see further expansion in the near future.
Freehouse opens tasting room Saturday
Charleston’s Freehouse Brewery will open its tasting room to the public for the first time this weekend.
While beer from South Carolina’s newest brewery has been available around the Charleston area for a few weeks, the brewery itself has not been open to the general public. That changes this Saturday, December 7, when the brewery will be open for tastings and tours from noon to 5 PM.
Freehouse is located at 2895 Pringle Street, Suite B, in Charleston.
Freehouse announces first release details
Freehouse, the Charleston area’s newest brewery, announced details of its first releases last Friday afternoon. Throughout this week, bars in the greater Charleston area will be tapping Freehouse brews for the first time. It’s not clear exactly what will be on tap, but this month the upcoming brewery plans to release the following:
- Ashley Farmhouse Ale, a 5% saison with notes of rye and spice and a mild hop note
- Green Door IPA, a sessionable English-style IPA using American hops. ‘Green Door’ refers to Freehouse Brewery’s big green entranceway, but is also a reference to their organic policies
- Bridgetown Stout, a Belgian-style stout coming in around 6%
Regardless of where you are in the area, there’s likely a bar near you tapping Freehouse’s first offerings. Here’s the release schedule:
Tuesday, November 12 – West Ashley & James Island
– Total Wine, 5-7 PM
– Bohemian Bull, 7 PM to close
Wednesday, November 13 – Mt. Pleasant
– Bottles, 5-7 PM
– House of Brews, 7-9 PM
– Coleman Public House, 9 PM to close
Thursday, November 14 – Downtown Charleston
– Charleston Beer Exchange, 5-7 PM
– Closed for Business, 7 PM to close
Saturday, November 16 – Summerville
– Homegrown Brewhouse, Noon to 4 PM
More details announced about upcoming Freehouse Brewery
Last week, the spotlight was turned on Charleston’s upcoming Freehouse Brewery after the surprise announcement that … well, there was another brewery opening in Charleston. Not long after the brewery began to gain some attention, an article on Eater Charleston helped to shed a little more light on what Freehouse had in store for the future of SC beer.
And on Tuesday, Timmons Pettigrew of CHSbeer – the author of the Eater piece – fleshed out even more details in a piece on the CHSbeer site. Here are a few bullet points from the articles:
- Freehouse was started by Arthur Lucas, who spent a lot of time in the Lowcountry when not in his hometown of Atlanta, and whose love for craft beer pushed him to start the brewery.
- The brewery will be located in an industrial park abutting the Ashley River in North Charleston, quite close to COAST and Holy City.
- The 15 BBL brew house consists of three 30 BBL conical fermenters and a 15 BBL brite tank, as well as tanks for hot and cold water. The boil kettle will use direct-fire natural gas to heat water.
- The focus will be on “rustic, farmhouse-style” ales, with nearly everything being very low in ABV. The first beers being produced are the Ashley Farmhouse Ale and Green Door IPA, followed by a Belgian yeast-infused foreign/export stout.
- Freehouse will bottle its beer, but not with a typical counter-pressure system. An Italian “gravity” bottling system will be used, which allows additional sugars to be added for bottle conditioning in each beer.
- The brewers are eschewing a proper tasting room, instead allowing visitors to roam the physical brewery itself instead of having a separate space just for tastings.
- All the beer produced by Freehosue will be USDA Certified Organic.
- The name “Freehouse” is inspired by the term for British pubs not owned by breweries. Across the pond, “tied houses” are pubs that serve a limited amount, and only the brands brewed by the brewery that owns the pub. But “free houses” serve whatever they want, including locally brewed beer and other unique offerings.
Look for Freehouse to begin producing brews later this year.
