Post and Courier22%
Small town SC brewery is named Brewery of the Year at national competition 1%
By Deirdre Weaver-Currin48%
7/30/2026, 2:00:00 AM
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HARTSVILLE — A rural brewery recently won brewery of the year at the 2026 U.S.
Open Beer Championships, one of the premier competitions celebrating American brewing excellence nationwide.
Wild Heart Brewing Company in Hartsville received four medals for its beers, alongside a trophy commemorating its title as Brewery of the Year in the 501 to 1,000 Barrels division on July 29.
U.S.
Open Beer Championship Founder Dow Scoggins traveled from Ohio to present the trophy and medals to Head brewer Zach Riner and assistant brewer Jerry Rivers at an intimate awards ceremony.
“It's awesome to win something like this,” Rivers told The Post and Courier.
“It wasn't expected, but it just shows the hard work that Zach and I have been putting in.
You know, it paid off.
We're just doing it to try to get better.
Wild Heart submitted five of its brews to the competition, and four took home prizes.
It’s a success ratio that brewery Co-Founder Casey Hancock called remarkable and gratifying.
The brewery’s New England, Juicy, Hazy DIPA called Convergence won gold.
Wild Heart also shared a gold win with Boulevard Brewing Company for its Wild Culture Brett Beer Slow Bloom.
Its West Coast Pilsner Hop Atlas scored a silver medal and its Collaboration Beer Weight of Sound won silver alongside Southern Hops Brewing Company and Riverbend Malt House in the pilsners/lagers category.
Wild Heart has already run out of Convergence, according to Riner, but a limited amount of Slow Bloom is still available.
Once the brew is gone, it’s gone for good.
The U.S.
Open Beer Championship was founded in 2009 and is held annually in Oxford, Ohio.
It is the third largest beer competition in the United States and judges entries from professional and award-winning home brewers across more than 170 style categories.
Five breweries win Brewery of the Year annually across different size categories, with the smallest breweries having 0 to 251 barrels and the largest having more than 15,000, according to Scoggins.
Wild Heart Brewing Company won in the third largest category, competing against nearly 1,000 competitors.
In all, nine South Carolina breweries won 17 total awards at the open.
Six of those 17 were gold, 6 were silver, 4 were bronze and one was Wild Heart’s Brewery of the Year award.
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