Southern Appalachian Brewing Co. is celebrating its 10th birthday this weekend with new beer releases, raffles, music and food trucks. Now you can get in without a membership card.
Under ABC rules that seem quaint now, given the proliferation of breweries, owners Kelly and Andy Cubbin were allowed to open only as a private club with a set of rules, membership cards and a theme which they decided would be music appreciation. I still have two shoeboxes full of cards people never picked up, Kelly said. We had 282 people the first day and we just couldn t keep up with the cards.