Westbrook Brewing – A Brewery In the Making

You’ve never heard of Westbrook Brewing from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. That’s likely because it is still a twinkle in Ed Westbrook’s eye. However, soon enough you will hear more about it.
In the fall of 2010, Westbrook Brewing will become the sixth distributing brewery in South Carolina. Like many commercial brewers before him, Ed is [...]

RJ Rockers’ New Brewery Shows South Carolina What It’s Been Missing

2009 was a banner year for RJ Rockers in Spartanburg, South Carolina. They won two major awards, including a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival, and moved into their new brewery in downtown Spartanburg. I stopped in before Christmas to see the place and talk with the brewmaster and co-owner, Mark Johnsen.

The front [...]

Interview with Tom Davis, Brewmaster and Founder of Thomas Creek

As I started branching out and trying new beers back in 2001 and 2002, I remember having something called a Thomas Creek Dopplebock at Jake’s Bar & Grill in Columbia, SC. At the time I really didn’t know what a dopplebock was from Johan Sebastian, but it was a dark and intriguing. It was one [...]