Savannah brewery wins big at US Open

Coastal Empire Beer brands won medals at the recently concluded United States Open Beer Championship in Ohio. - photo by Photo provided.

beer medals — Coastal Empire Beer brands won medals at the recently concluded United States Open Beer Championship in Ohio. - photo by Photo provided.

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Updated: Jul 25, 2015, 12:00 PM

Published: Jul 23, 2015, 3:46 PM

Coastal Empire Beer Co. of Savannah won silver and gold medals in blind tastings earlier this month at the 2015 United States Open Beer Championship in Oxford, Ohio.

More than 4,000 beers and ciders from more than 20 countries competed to win in a number of different beer, cider and specialty categories.

Coastal Empire Beer Co. won a gold medal for its March to the Sea brand in the American Barley Wine category. March to the Sea is a collaboration product with Kennesaw-based Burnt Hickory Brewery. The Barrel Aged Savannah Brown won a silver medal in the Barrel Aged Dark Beer category.

Since Coastal Empire Beer Co. first released Barrel Aged Savannah Brown in 2013, it has won numerous awards, including bronze in 2013 and gold in 2014 at the U.S. Open. The brewery’s Savannah Brown Ale, also captured silver in the 2012 U.S. Open American Brown Ale category.

“It’s always very exciting to receive recognition for the quality of our beer, especially when there is so much competition from around the world,” said Kevin Haborak, a Richmond Hill resident and co-founder of Coastal Empire Beer Co. “This is the fourth year since we founded our brewery in August 2011 that we have been successful in bringing home awards to Savannah.

“We were also very pleased to see the success of our first collaboration with another Georgia brewery,” he added. “The guys at Burnt Hickory are great people, and to have our beer — March to the Sea — bring home a gold medal was very exciting for both of us.”

Coastal Empire Beer Co. is at 79 Ross Road in Savannah and features a tasting room that is open Thursday through Saturday. Patrons can tour the facility, sample the beers and take home up to 72 ounces of souvenir beer from the tasting room.

For more information on Coastal Empire Beer Co., go to www.coastalempirebeer.com. For more information about the U.S. Open Beer Championship, go to www.usopenbeer.com.

Record April boosts Savannah's container trade at port

The Port of Savannah moved 356,700 20-foot equivalent container units in April, an increase of 7.1 percent. - photo by Provided

GardenCityTerminal — The Port of Savannah moved 356,700 20-foot equivalent container units in April, an increase of 7.1 percent. - photo by Provided

Bryan County News

Updated: May 23, 2018, 1:59 AM

Published: May 23, 2018, 2:00 AM

The Georgia Ports Authority's busiest April ever pushed its fiscal year-to-date totals to more than 3.4 million 20-foot equivalent container units (TEUs), an increase of 8.8 percent, or 280,000 TEUs, compared to the first 10 months of fiscal 2017.

"We're on track to move more than 300,000 TEUs in every month of the fiscal year, which will be a first for the authority," said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch. "We're also anticipating this to be the first fiscal year for the Port of Savannah to handle more than 4 million TEUs."

April volumes reached 356,700 20-foot equivalent container units, up 7.1 percent or 23,700 units. As the fastest growing containerport in the nation, the Port of Savannah has achieved a compound annual growth rate of more than 5 percent a year over the past decade.

"As reported in the recent economic impact study by UGA's Terry College of Business, trade through Georgia's deepwater ports translates into jobs, higher incomes and greater productivity," said GPA Board Chairman Jimmy Allgood. "In every region of Georgia, employers rely on the ports of Savannah and Brunswick to help them become more competitive on the global stage."

To strengthen the Port of Savannah's ability to support the state's future economic growth, the GPA Board approved $66 million in terminal upgrades, including $24 million for the purchase of 10 additional rubber-tired gantry cranes.

"The authority is committed to building additional capacity ahead of demand to ensure the Port of Savannah remains a trusted link in the supply chain serving Georgia and the Southeast," Lynch said.

The crane purchase will bring the fleet at Garden City Terminal to 156 RTGs. The new cranes will support three new container rows, which the board approved in March. The additional container rows will increase annual capacity at the Port of Savannah by 150,000 TEUs.

The RTGs will work over stacks that are five containers high and six deep, with a truck lane running alongside the stacks. Capable of running on electricity, the cranes will have a lift capacity of 50 metric tons.

The cranes will arrive in two batches of five in the first and second quarters of calendar year 2019.

Also at Monday's meeting, the GPA Board elected its officers, with Jimmy Allgood as chairman, Will McKnight taking the position of vice chairman and Joel Wooten elected as the next secretary/treasurer.

For more information, visit gaports.com, or contact GPA Senior Director of Corporate Communications Robert Morris at (912) 964-3855 or rmorris@gaports.com.

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