{"id":22861,"date":"2024-02-12T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T03:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22861"},"modified":"2024-02-12T22:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T03:14:41","slug":"southern-essence-distilling-904-frink-street-2020s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22861","title":{"rendered":"Southern Essence Distilling, 904 Frink Street: 2020s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930405_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930405_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930405_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930406.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930406_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930406_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930406_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930407.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930407_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930407_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930407_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930408.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930408_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930408_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930408_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I was driving up from <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22854\">Henry's<\/a> the other week, I passed this building, which has featured here before as <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3876\">Mote's Store, Frink Street Tavern & Frink Street Pub<\/a>, and noticed that it looked to have been set up as a distillery, and to now be vacant.<\/p>\n<p>A little googling established that it was <i>Southern Essence Distilling<\/i>, established in 2018 & operating alongside an art studio, and that during the pandemic, they stepped up with a hand sanitizer production and donation operation.  You can read about that here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/cayce-distillery-makes-hand-sanitizer-for-first-responders\/101-80cb9ce8-4822-4c16-8d1b-788945ec14d5\">on WLTX<\/a>.  I'm unclear if they were able to re-open for normal business after the pandemic, and I don't see any articles on that, or on the place closing.<\/p>\n<p>One notable feature of the place (now gone) was apparently a large wire sculpture of a <i>Star Wars Imperial Walker<\/i>.  You can see a picture of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/free-times\/food\/on_tap\/on-tap-cayce-distillery-opens-this-week\/article_78fe52ec-8268-5b3c-a2f6-096e483a4109.html\">here<\/a> and watch a story about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/local\/new-distillery-coming-to-a-galaxy-near-you\/101-506975759\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an archived copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231129153207\/https:\/\/www.southernessencedistilling.com\/\">their web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/904+Frink+St,+Cayce,+SC+29033\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was driving up from Henry's the other week, I passed this building, which has featured here before as Mote's Store, Frink Street Tavern &#038; Frink Street Pub, and noticed that it looked to have been set up as a distillery, and to now be vacant. A little googling established that it was Southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3926,220,3005,3927,590,714],"class_list":["post-22861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-904-frink-street","tag-cayce","tag-covid-19","tag-distilleries","tag-frink-street","tag-liquor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}