I won't try to quote Sidehatchs excellent write up but I too enjoyed many excellent local beers in Charleston and Kiawah over the last week - we really only made it to downtown Charleston on Thursday afternoon - hit up Westbrook and Coast - Westbrook is huge and judging by all the construction looks like they are doubling in size - nicest surprise of the Westbrook trip was discovering they still had Mexican cake for sale in their tasting room
Also picked up some gose there. The beer on tap at the tasting room were good not great, an "imperial" gose, a berliner weise and old ale and a rye pale ale. Interestingly, based on my nonscientific sample of 3 or 4 liqour stores around Kiawah the Westbrook gose was impossible to find but all stores had plenty of their Witbier and IPA
Coast was awesome - vibe much more reminiscent of some of the smaller DC breweries - literally everything on tap was excellent with special kudos to their Boy King DIPA and their BA Stout Blackbeerd - small space - cool staff - cheap beer, nice locals hanging drinking beer and playing cornhole
Earlier in the week we had quickly hit up Tradesman brewing - nice people, tiny space, mediocire to decent beers
Also got to try various holy city, freehouse and palmetto beers at various watering holes in the area
