One of South Carolina’s oldest and one of its newest breweries took home medals from the recent 2014 US Open Beer Championship held in Atlanta.
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Equipment arrives at Swamp Rabbit
Monday was no day off for the folks at Swamp Rabbit, the upcoming brewery opening in Travelers Rest. The future Upstate brewery spent the holiday unloading flatbed trucks and moving equipment into the warehouse.
Throughout Monday morning, Swamp Rabbit documented and arrival and installation of 14 tanks, including a glycol chiller, conical fermenters, cold liquor tanks and more. When operational, the 10-barrel brew house will begin producing four flagship beers, including a Belgian white and Oktoberfest. The brewers have to have everything up and running and the brewery open sometime in March.
Swamp Rabbit hosts open house Saturday
One of South Carolina’s future breweries wants to give you the chance to get to know them before their official opening day.
Travelers Rest’s Swamp Rabbit (not to be confused with Columbia’s Swamp Cabbage) will be hosting a meet-and-greet event at the brewery this Saturday, Sept. 7, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The open house will give visitors the chance to meet Swamp Rabbit Head Brewer Ben Pierson and his wife, Teresa, get a look at the brewery and more. (No word on if you’ll get to sample any of Swamp Rabbit’s upcoming brews, but chances are high.)
Swamp Rabbit is located at 26 S. Main St. in Travelers Rest.
New Lowcountry, Upstate breweries in the works
The South Carolina craft beer boom is showing no hints of subsiding as two new breweries in the planning stages are beginning to make their presence known.
In Charleston – or should I say Charlestowne? – is the upcoming Olde Charlestowne Brewing Co., which just this month started a Facebook pages to keep track of their progression. The brewery is in its infancy – they’re in the budgeting phase of planning and are still looking for a location – so details about the important stuff (read: beer) is still in the ether. But as for aesthetics, the brewery is aiming for an olde school look with wrought iron tap handles and a tap tower topped with a gas lamp. (Note: All of these things could change.)
In the Upstate, the Swamp Rabbit Brewery and Taproom is planning to open in the city of Travelers Rest by the end of the year. The brewery’s 10 BBL brewhouse will brew American, German and Belgian-style lagers and ales directly from the tanks. A down payment was put on the brewery this week as well. Owners Ben and Teresa Pierson have a little experience in the brewing world as Ben is the former brewmaster at the Lexington Avenue Brewery and Green Man Brewery in Asheville, NC.
Not to be left out, at least two parties are exploring the possibility of opening breweries in the Columbia area. Hopefully more details about those will come out soon.
