Don’t miss your opportunity to tour this great brewery and get a taste of their fresh, local, seasonal brews! Jamie and Dave have been super busy since opening their doors to eager friends and neighbors. Constant questions about the brewing process, the history of the building and the flavors we are suppose to taste inundate the creators of COAST Beer as they pour 3 oz tastes of each one of their craft beers. Growlers and bottled beers are also available.

The Blackbeerd Stout was the soft, dark, chocolatey beer of the day on this visit.

Chalkboard menu changes often so, come get it while you can!

All kegged up ready for distribution: Find Coast Beer at…

North Charleston:

Aloft Hotels

EVO Pizzeria

Madra Rua

Sesame

Downtown Charleston:

Chai’s

Charleston Beer Exchange (beer store)

Charleston Beer Works

Closed for Business

Fleet Landing

Griffon Pub

Hank’s Seafood

Moe’s Downtown

Mellow Mushroom

52.5 Records (bottles)

Daniel Island:

Laura Alberts

Folly Beach:

Surf Bar

Hilton Head:

The Lodge

Kiawah:

Piggly Wiggly at Newton Farms

Mount Pleasant:

Brixx

Mellow Mushroom

Red Drum

Whole Foods (bottles)

Wine A While (bottles)

West Ashley:

Earthfare (bottles)

El Bohio

Gene’s Haufbrau

Glass Onion

Total Wine

Tin Roof

Sullivan’s Island:

Poe’s Tavern

Columbia:

Green’s (Bottles)

Total Wine

Greenville:

Barley’s Taproom

Total Wine

Whole Foods

Good Beer brings Great Friends out for tastings!

The Tiller Family

The Nadeau Family

All in all it was another great day in Park Circle on the Naval Base supporting local sustainable business and enjoying craft beer. Cheers!

1719 sqft.
4 bedroom, 2 bath
$220,000
Offered by: AgentOwned Realty

**Come see this fantastic home within walking distance to parks, restaurants, salons and the Filbin Creek! Park Circle is an exciting emerging neighborhood with new growth as well as historical homes. Come see the quality of life we have to offer you. Contact me: Thea Anderson, REALTOR (843) 259-8705 or Thea@PerfectlyParkCircle.com

1210 sqft.
3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath
POOL!
$159,000
Offered by: HRS Realty

**For a showing of this or any Park Circle property, contact me: Thea Anderson, REALTOR AgentOwned Realty CO. (843) 259-8705 or thea@perfectlyparkcircle.com

1201 Buist
832 sqft.
2 bedroom, 1 bath
$90,500

Interested in snatching an affordable property in an exciting emerging neighborhood? Contact me, Thea Anderson, REALTOR (843) 259-8705 or thea@perfectlyparkcircle.com

by T. Ballard Lesemann

It looked like a wild family reunion kegger inside the Mill on Saturday night. In addition to the colorful Park Circle bargoers and usual musician types, several tables’ worth of older couples populated the music room. Many of them sat in booths, aimed at the corner stage, beers in hand. It turned out to be Megan Jean and Klay Family Band’s actual family, casually congregated as part of a pre-wedding bash.

A beaming Megan Jean revealed that she and bandmate Byrne Klay were getting hitched the following morning, down the block at the South of Broadway Theatre Company Studios. I felt honored to crash the party.

Things in the music room started getting wild, crazy, and sweaty after the Royal Tinfoil, the first of three acts on the bill, took the stage got rolling with a couple of bluesy opening numbers. The core duo of the group —the fuzzy-faced Mackie Boles and the vivacious Lily Slay — welcomed a guest bassist and stuck with their acoustic six-strings during the first part of the set. With an intense, grinning expression on her face, Slay hollered, crooned, and sang like a hillbilly blues diva during and between songs. The rich harmonies between her and Boles landed somewhere between the classic duet stylings of June Carter and Johnny Cash, Exene Cervenka and John Doe, and Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper.

photo by kt nichols

Megan Jean joined in on the washboard halfway through the set, chiming in on harmonies and antics. They got pretty slow and slinky at times, but the louder, faster, more devilish moments revved things up most effectively. “One, two, three four … royal fucking tin foil!” they shouted during a rousing, autobiographic closer. They made their point for sure.

Megan Jean and Klay wasted no time getting into their own weird wiggly blues/swing groove. She started out strumming an antique f-hole six-string while he plucked and bowed a full-sized upright bass. Megan Jean kept time with her right foot, tapping an amplified stompbox/tambourine contraption.

They switched instruments, too; she picked up her washboard and bell while he strapped on a five-string banjo. Soulful, sneery, and sultry, Megan Jean’s singing was beautifully aggressive — from the slower murder ballads and wails, to the more hickish, haul-ass rompers and the random Sam Cook covers.

“I told Byrne he could never break up with me ’cause he’d be losing his job in the band,” Megan Jean joked over the mic to laughter and applause. “Hey, we should get married more often — this is great!”

Atlanta trio Shathouse Rats closed the night down with a more swamp-blues/garage-rock set of originals. Bespectacled frontman Matt Shat strummed an old Silvertone guitar with backing from drummer Trey LeTrash and keysman Byronius Junk, who conjured some huge sounds from a full-sized Hammond M3 and a Fender Rhodes. Megan Jean jumped in for some extra harmonies with them, too. The rowdy and riffy rock ‘n’ roll capped off the unusual wedding party gig just fine.

Thackeray Farms is getting request for a Park Circle/North Charleston drop point. We would LOVE to do this, but need enough new members in that area. Please tell your Park Circle buddies to e-mail heather@thackerayfarms.com or comment here if y’all would be interested in joining at this location!

http://thackerayfarms.com/csa-sign-up/

By Ashley Fletcher Frampton
aframpton@scbiznews.com
Published Sept.1, 2010

North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey, whose city revitalization plans are largely intertwined with the fate of the redevelopment of the former Navy Base, said he is not concerned that a new entity holds the note on a $23.8 million loan to the base’s developer.

An entity called CHSA LLC on Friday purchased the note on the loan from Capmark Financial Inc. to the developer, The Noisette Co. The transaction, which puts CHSA in the position as lender, came just days before a court hearing Tuesday that was scheduled to finalize plans for a foreclosure sale of the 240 acres that secured the loan.

It’s unclear who is behind CHSA, whether the entity is seeking to take ownership of the 240 acres, and if so, for what purpose.
North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey “I can tell you that mixed use does not call for a rail going through the (north) end of the base.”
— North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey

Summey said today that he doesn’t know those answers, but that the city still has at least two measures of control over future development at the Navy base. It controls zoning, and it has an agreement with a state agency that Summey says prevents rail development on that portion of the former base.

Summey addressed speculation that Bob Faith, president of Greystar and former S.C. Secretary of Commerce, could be involved with CHSA and that the deal is linked to rail company Norfolk Southern.

Norfolk Southern officials have said they prefer to access a port terminal under construction nearby via a route that runs through the Navy base property in question.

Greystar is a Charleston-based real estate company that focuses on apartment development and management nationwide.

After hearing that Faith could be involved in purchasing the note, Summey said he called him early last week to ask about it.

“He told me he was under a confidentiality agreement and could not openly discuss it because of that,” Summey said.

Summey said the comment indicates that Faith was likely involved in some effort to purchase the note, but that he doesn’t know whether Faith is involved in the entity that actually made the purchase.

Many groups have talked about purchasing the note over the past year, Summey said.

“Whether he was in the group that bought the note, I am not positive,” Summey said.

The Business Journal’s efforts to reach Faith over the past two days have been unsuccessful. Greystar officials referred questions to a third-party spokesman, who has not responded to calls and e-mails.

Summey said he asked Faith if he was working with Norfolk Southern on the takeover.

“He said that was no more than a rumor,” Summey said.

The mayor said he also talked to Faith about potential changes on the property if he did ultimately control it.

“He said that there would need to be some tweaking to the zoning,” Summey said. “That’s fine as long as that does not damage the overall plan that we have for the future there.”

Summey said he wouldn’t object to minor changes to the zoning, which currently enables mixed-use development.

“I can tell you that mixed use does not call for a rail going through the (north) end of the base,” Summey said.

The discussion is the same one that has been ongoing since Capmark Financial filed for foreclosure last summer, leaving the future of the Navy Yard at Noisette redevelopment project uncertain.

The foreclosure suit involves about 240 acres of the full 340-acre project.

Summey said that even with a new entity involved following a last-minute transaction that closed Friday, little has changed from the city’s point of view.

He said North Charleston City Council has not discussed bidding on the land to prevent future uncertainty. He cited the city’s ultimate control of the land through zoning and a 2002 memorandum of understanding with the S.C. State Ports Authority calling for rail access to the new port terminal from the south side of the property, not the north.

“I see us in no different stance than we were prior to this,” Summey said.

In court yesterday, Charleston County Master-in-Equity Mikell Scarborough ordered a sale of the 240 acres, divided into three parts, through a 60-day process that starts today. Written bids will be accepted through Nov. 1.

If bids received by that date do not cover the debt, the lender could reject them and proceed to a traditional auction on the full 240 acres on Dec. 7.

Reach Ashley Fletcher Frampton at 843-849-3129.

Three Bad Jacks w/ The Defilers
When: Thu., Sept. 2
Price: Free
threebadjacks.com

So-Cal psychobilly band Three Bad Jacks make their way across the country this week, hitting Charleston for the first time. Fans of psychobilly know what to expect: fast, rockabilly-inspired mayhem on drums, electric guitar, upright bass — and upright hair. Hell, the lead singer is even named Elvis. The self-declared “bastard sons of rock ’n’ roll,” comprised of bassist Dave Eckles, drummer Kyle Helm, and the aforementioned singer/guitarist Elvis Suissa, arrive in support of their recently released sophomore album, Crazy in the Head, the band’s first full-length since 1999’s Made of Stone. Three Bad Jacks have also found recent success in the television world’ songs have been featured on HBO’s True Blood and the upcoming Chris Kattan movie Wanted: Undead or Alive. While the band’s latest effort displays a higher level of maturity than their rougher-edged previous outing, fans should still expect to see a high-energy set, with local rockabilly favorites the Defilers opening. —Jansen Cumbie

1197 Camden
1200 sqft.
3 bedroom, 1 bath
$125,000
Offered by: Weichert Realtors

**WOW ~ What a great price on a fantastic property in an exciting neighborhood! Come see what Park Circle has to offer: Walkable streets, multiple parks, disc golf course, duck pond, weekly farmers market, yoga classes, boot camp work outs, community pool, tennis courts, local restaurants, Irish Pub, community events and so much more.
For more market information or to schedule a showing of this property contact me, THEA ANDERSON, REALTOR (843) 259-8705 or Thea@PerfectlyParkCircle.com

By Timmons Pettigrew,

North Charleston’s COAST Brewing has released yet another new seasonal beer, adding to their already impressive list of 15+ offerings so far: Event Horizon Cascadian Dark Ale.

Possibly the first of its kind to be (professionally) brewed in South Carolina, Event Horizon straddles some already blurry style lines. Cascadian Dark Ale is generally regarded as an alternate name for what is now officially called India Black Ale, also known as Black IPA. These beers have all the hops of a big India Pale Ale, or more, but are also brewed with dark and/or roasted malts, imparting a sinister opaque blackness and some of the big, burnt toffee/coffee flavor notes of a black ale. The color almost makes it an optical illusion, as you don’t expect a massive hop nose or taste from its appearance.

And that’s where Event Horizon differs. This beer is not black, nor does it have big, burnt flavor notes, hence the COAST crew going with “Cascadian Dark Ale.” It is dark, but it’s more of a muted dark brown than anything, with a slightly off-white head, again differing from distintcly tan-to-brown head you’d see on a regular IBA.

But, oh my, does it have hops. Hops out the wazoo. The beer is chock full of Cascade, Centennial, Columbus, and Citra hops. If I heard right, 31 pounds of those bad boys went into brewing this batch, which is close to 50% more than is put in their flagship HopArt IPA. The mix of varietals makes the experience of drinking this beer completely dominating. I tasted every traditionally “hoppy” note – pine, grapefruit, spice, citrus fruit, tropical fruit, you name it, it’s in there. And at 6.5% ABV, the malts don’t stand a chance. This one is all unrelenting humulus lupus, and unapologetic about it.

Event Horizon is available for tastings and growler fills ($16) at the brewery, and was sent out to stores & bars beginning this week so keep your eyes peeled. Cheers to COAST for another killer beer. I just found the name is in reference to the phenomenon, not the movie, but it probably won’t stop me from renting it so I can drink this while watching Larry Fishburne pwn things.

COAST Brewing is located at 1250 N 2nd Street in North Charleston. Tastings, tours, and direct sales are available on Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Follow them at @COASTBrewing on Twitter for updates.