Coastal Empire Beer Co

Our Story

Kevin Haborak started homebrewing in 1995 when he received my first homebrewing kit as a gift. From early on he dreamed of opening a brewery (as I think a lot of homebrewers do), but usually he did little to pursue the dream. Back in 2009, his family moved from Atlanta to Savannah and that’s when everything finally got put into motion.

By the spring of 2010 he had put together a skeletal plan of how to get things started and he convinced my brother to invest in the dream. He decided the first beer would be an American Brown Ale as a nod to his homebrewing roots, since this style was developed by American hombrewers as an hop forward adaption of the English Brown Ale. In February of 2011, Coastal Empire began producing test batches at Blue and Gray Brewing in order to scale up the recipe from 5 gallon batches to 20 BBL batches. By summer of 2011 they had perfected the recipe and set a date to bring the beer to market.