USA, SC: Good Girl Brewing Co. getting close to launching in Aiken

Good Girl Brewing Co. is getting close to making its debut in Aiken, the Post and Courier reported on April 19.

The business is scheduled to open May 7.

Located at 880 Banks Mill Road S.E., Good Girl will serve craft beer made on its premises and food.

The brewery/restaurant’s building, which has been renovated, is the former home of Found Treasures, an antiques and collectibles store that closed in 2020.

Andrew and Rachael Phifer told the Aiken Standard early in 2023 that their friends, Paul and Morgan Batton, and Rachael’s parents had joined them on Good Girl’s ownership team.

Phifer Brewing LLC purchased the 1.26-acre property for Good Girl, which is next to Citizens Park, for $259,000 in January 2021.

The Phifers “have learned to navigate zoning permits, [the] rising cost of lumber and materials, loan approvals, construction delays and more,” according to a Facebook post earlier this year.

“Although the question of opening was always on our minds, we made an intentional choice to put the question ‘are we doing this right and to the best of our abilities?’ first in our mind,” the post further stated. “Sometimes this has made things slower or made us redo processes to get them right, but it has yielded something we can be proud of.”

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