Michigan-based Dark Horse Brewing Co. will begin distribution in South Carolina this week with a launch party this coming Saturday, Oct. 24
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Sixpoint launch events scheduled this week for Charleston, Columbia, Greenville
After making a surprise appearance at the latest Brewvival, Brooklyn-based Sixpoint Brewery will make its debut in South Carolina’s major markets with launch events throughout this week.
Revelry preps Prologue American Wild Ale with peaches for taps, bottles
Charleston’s Revelry Brewing has announced – through what could be described as an equally beautiful and deeply disturbing video – the upcoming release of their first bottled American wild ale, which will also hit taps this weekend.
Revelry expands into Columbia, Greenville
Charleston’s Revelry Brewing Co. has been on a roll lately in terms of distributing product outside of their brewery. Following a sizable distribution bump around the Charleston area, the RAFA-repped brewery has begun to creep into the Midlands and Upstate markets this week.
Prairie, Crooked Stave launching in SC soon
The brands represented by Charleston’s RAFA Distributing continue to grow with the “just good shit” specialists recently adding two new breweries to their lineup: Colorado’s Crooked Stave and Oklahoma’s Prairie Artisan Ales.
Revelry signs distribution deal with RAFA
Revelry Brewing Co., one of the newest beer makers in the Charleston area, announced during the weekend that they’d inked a distribution deal with the state’s purveyors of “just good shit,” RAFA Distributing.
Rafa Distributing aims to ‘put good shit’ in your mouth
When Austin’s Jester King was announced as one of the breweries pouring at this year’s Brewvival, it was news that took a lot of people by surprise. Not only because the farmhouse brewery made no indication of finding a home in SC, but also because they weren’t a presence in bigger markets that usually get distribution before us, such as Georgia and North Carolina.
Even more surprising was when a pretty sizable amount of Jester King’s beers began popping up on shelves in Greenville, Charleston and Columbia.
So, how did they get here? Rafa Distributing, a.k.a. Lauren Shor, a solo distributor that has landed a pretty nice slate of accounts after less than a couple of months in existence.
In addition to Jester King, Rafa represents Evil Twin, Stillwater, Southern Star, Argus Cider – which you may have seen pop up lately – Local Option, Against the Grain, Hof Ten Dormaal and 12 Percent Imports.
The goal of Rafa? “My goal is to put good shit into people’s mouths,” Shor recently told CHSbeer in a Q&A you should go read. The focus now is to keep the company’s slate small and manageable because, in Shor’s words, “Distributors suck and breweries hate them. However, they need to use them by law. So I wanted to create a brewery-focused distributor.”
After you read the Q&A, go follow Rafa on Twitter.
