Swamp Cabbage Brewery, 921 Brookwood Drive: 18 December 2022 3 comments
I never made it to Swamp Cabbage Brewery while it was open. I like a beer every now and again, but generally as dessert for a sit-down meal, so I usually stick to brewpubs. In point of fact it was actually hard to to locate this place, and I had to make two trips. It turns out that street numbers on Brookwood Drive are really odd, but after going home and consulting google maps, I finally got there, and found the setup still pretty much intact.
The Free Times had two stories about the closing, here and here.
(Hat tip to commenter MB)
3 Responses to 'Swamp Cabbage Brewery, 921 Brookwood Drive: 18 December 2022'
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They were always very nice. Every other brewery is a damn daycare. Toddlers and kids running around everywhere.
Dan R
8 Feb 23 at 2:30 pm
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I agree with previous comments -- beer was fine but unremarkable. The days of a popular brewery hiding in some nondescript buildings are over. I also had a hard time finding their beer in stores, and when bigger breweries (with honestly but better beers) River Rat, Cola Craft and Steel Hands got going 5-6 years ago, I kind of forgot about these guys.
It's sad that some of these early craft breweries in Columbia (this one and Conquest) didn't survive. Makes me wonder how Hunter Gatherer has been around so long, late 90's as best I remember.
Andy
9 Feb 23 at 1:02 pm
Yeah, I think they just got lapped by the rest of the local beer scene. To me, they never did anything that really grabbed me. I never had a bad beer there, but never anything that knocked me out of the park like some of the stuff at a River Rat might. They also seemed to be so taproom-dependent (which is unusual for such a lousy location, as you covered), not seeming to have a wide distribution of kegs or even cans/bottles. Not good for trying to survive and thrive during- and post-COVID. A lot of factors that just didn't add up in their favor, in my view.