Featuring 32 Skull Coast & North Carolina taps.
10% ABV - 110 IBUs
Typhoon Windswept Wheat IPA
Skull Coast Brewing Company, Inc.
North Carolina
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Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 9:04PM While the Skull Coast Brewing Company, Inc., has not entered any brewery competitions, we want to congratulate all of the 2012 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners. This year, the GABF awarded 254 medals from over 4,000 entries, 600 breweries, and over 80 beer categories. The following are all of the winners for each category:
Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 9:06AM 
Published: June 22, 2012
"HICKORY NC —The city of Hickory might have to wait a little longer for the opening of its third and newest brewery.
Skull Coast Brewing Company, Inc. is the tenant that will occupy the bottom floor of the east building at the former Hollar Hosiery Mill once the restoration project is complete.
Justin McLean, project manager and building estimator for Neill Grading & Construction, said the setback in construction were due to delays in the final engineering planning. He said recently that his workers had to replace the roof in the east mill because of excessive water damage.
“We hope to have it completed by the end of the year,” said McLean. “If we stay on track like we have, we can get it done.”
For Dave Fox, owner and Chief Drinking Officer of Skull Coast, the delay almost stopped his company from doing business with one of its most important vendors."
To read the rest of the story, please click Renovation Delays Postpone Open of new Hickory Brewery
Follow @SKULLCOASTFriday, June 15, 2012 at 5:55PM By Dianne Straley
Correspondent
"A brewery [Skull Coast], full-service restaurant and shops will open in the next few months in an old hosiery mill, a $6 million project under way near Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory.
Crews are now demolishing much of the interior of a pair of brick buildings at the old Hollar Hosiery mill at 883 Highland Ave. S.W, said Nathan Kirby, who is leading the redevelopment for a group of Catawba County investors.
Floor to ceiling windows, wide-planked wooden floors, hefty beams and joists will be left in place to give character to the buildings, said Kirby, managing member of Downtown Pioneers, a Gastonia redevelopment company. “We will have tons and tons of natural light,” Kirby said. Some of the old timbers are 14-by-12 inches thick. The two buildings were built in the 1930s and contain a combined 34,000 square feet...."
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 3:09PM 
HICKORY, North Carolina – June 12, 2012 – In an amazing display of camaraderie among North Carolina brewers, Howard Brewing Company has agreed to produce a number of batches for the Skull Coast Brewing Company, Inc. (“Skull Coast”) in order to distribute a limited number of kegs to some of its most loyal accounts and customers, and give Skull Coast the opportunity to retain its presence at Bank of America Stadium during Carolina Panther home games for the upcoming season.
For the past two years, Carolina Panther fans have been able to enjoy Skull Coast beers at one of its two designated kiosks located within Bank of America Stadium. When unforeseen construction delays of Skull Coast's new brewery in Hickory, NC, jeopardized the ability of Skull Coast to supply thirsty Panther fans, Howard Brewing came to the rescue and offered Skull Coast the opportunity to brew on its new 15bbl system in Lenoir, NC. “When Dave Fox contacted me and we discussed the situation I felt compelled to look very seriously at this project between Howard Brewing and Skull Coast. With the craft beer movement in North Carolina gaining momentum and the opportunity to have a platform like Bank of America Stadium, where mass produced American light lagers have historically been the only real choice for beer drinkers, I felt that it would be terrible if Skull Coast (or any of us craft brewers) lost even one tap handle due to not being able to produce. I am really excited about these beers we’re going to help produce and an ongoing relationship between the two breweries,” said Jason Howard. While Howard Brewing Company's facility is not yet complete, Howard has moved up their opening timetable so that Skull Coast could begin brewing in Lenoir to output kegs before the first preseason Carolina Panthers game. “We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Jason Howard and Howard Brewing,” said Dave Fox. “Without Jason's incredible offer to begin brewing on their system, we would have surely lost Bank of America Stadium. We can only hope to repay them somehow in the near future for this incredible opportunity to hopefully continue to provide thirsty Panther fans with Skull Coast beers this season!”Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7:05PM 
Current Hollar Hosiery Mill - Photo Credit Kevin Riley
HICKORY, North Carolina – April 20, 2012 – After months of being cloaked in secrecy, The Skull Coast Brewing Company, Inc. (“Skull Coast”), is pleased to announce that it will be setting up its brewing operations in the former “Hollar Hosiery Mill” in Hickory, North Carolina.
As part of a multi-million dollar historic preservation and redevelopment project, Skull Coast will be occupying the ground floor of the eastern “hanger” structure of the site. Access to the project's only loading dock makes it ideal for Skull Coast's operations.
Current Hollar Hosiery Mill -- Photo Credit Kevin Riley
In addition to the 30-bbl brewing system, currently being constructed by Bavarian Brewing Technologies, Skull Coast will be installing a Cask automated canning system to produce craft beer cans for off-premise accounts, and a roughly 1500 square foot taproom.
“We are unbelievably excited to have the opportunity to begin brewing again soon in our our own space, and hope to add in our own small way to the growing reputation and rich tradition of outstanding North Carolina breweries," says Dave Fox, Skull Coast's "Chief Drinking Officer."
The developers of the Hollar Hosiery Mill project anticipate breaking ground in the next several weeks, and estimate that the Skull Coast Brewery portion of the overall project will be set to open in the Summer of 2012.
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