Jaime Tenny: Coast Brewing (North Charleston, SC)

Coast Brewing has been making high-quality beer in the South Carolina Lowcountry for so long, it’s easy to take the availability and the quality of its beer for granted. It’s sincerely become part of Charleston, just as its former taproom -- really a few taps on the side of a walk-in cooler -- became sort of a community hub for a pint and a chat. That availability, quality, and community has been the driving force for co-owner Jaime Tenny, who along with her husband David Merritt, have just been head down, making beer, selling beer, and helping welcome and anchor a growing beer scene in the state for more than a decade. But as any entrepreneur knows, all that day in, day out hussle to support and build a business carries its own price and then some. After many challenges, Coast is poised on the edge of a new phase, about to open a new taproom and production building later this year. And that’s worth raising a pint to.