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Candice Campbell, photographed on July 28, 2022, began as a visitor to the Habitap faucet room near Woodruff Road in Greenville. He brought samples of his homemade beers for feedback, which he used for the main brewer. Eric Connor/Staff
Candice Campbell operates The Habitap’s five-barrel brewery taproom on July 28, 2022 in Greenville. Eric Connor/Staff
Chief brewer Candice Campbell is the five-barrel formula for The Habitap’s new on-site operation in Greenville on July 28, 2022. Eric Connor/Staff
Candice Campbell’s career path is unlikely. This led her to be head brewery at The Habitap tap space in Greenville.
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Candice Campbell, photographed on July 28, 2022, began as a visitor to the Habitap faucet room near Woodruff Road in Greenville. He brought samples of his homemade beers for feedback, which he used for the main brewer. Eric Connor/Staff
GREENVILLE — In the beer world, there’s no shortage of Odyssean’s travel diaries about how brewmasters discovered his hobby and left a “real” task to pursue it.
Candice Campbell’s story is unlikely.
Discover a taste for beer only good in your 20s. A professional educator who spent her afternoons as a normal consumer bringing her home brews for feedback. A black woman in a kingdom commonly filled with white men.
And now, the main brewer of the Habi space in Greenville.
The restaurant, which offers 50 beers on tap, last fall launched its brewing plans at the site. The paintings never went elsewhere.
“When we started thinking about formulating a plan for the brewery, she was the only user we were contemplating to do it,” said Jonathan Mills, cooperation manager for the restaurant’s parent group, Southern Culture.
And other brewers, the 36-year-old has time to keep up her daily homework as a teacher.
Originally from Atlanta, Campbell attended school in Georgia. He brought the national variety of reasonable beer and not a fan.
In 2012, a friend interned him at the Tipsy McSway bar in Brunswick, Georgia, and took him to the craft side. It started with Yeungling and Dos Equis. Discover stouts and wearers.
Then he met his true loves: thick Belgian beers and brewing.
Campbell started with basic equipment and pledged to master each and every beer before investing in more expensive equipment.
The day’s paintings took her to Rock Hill, where she trained in Chester County. While living in the suburbs, he helped at Charlotte’s Bold Missy Brewery in the NoDA neighborhood. When the brewery closed just before the coronavirus stopped in 2020, the owners donated their appliances. to Campbell.
Candice Campbell operates The Habitap taproom’s five-barrel brewery on July 28, 2022 in Greenville. Eric Connor/Staff
He began refining his New England API, meticulously researching the ingredients and settling on Scottish Golden Promise grain, New Zealand hops, and English yeast strain S-33.
He temporarily learned to take notes meticulously or threaten to waste a recipe forever.
For years, she brewed beers at home for friends, parties and bachelorette parties. The only thing he didn’t prepare for a funeral. Each beer is accompanied by a specially designed label.
“I don’t cook for myself, I don’t brew beer for myself,” Campbell said. “It’s all I do for people. That’s how I explain my emotions, like, ‘Here, folks, I need to give you beer. ‘”
She dreamed of bigger things. Campbell wondered how it is possible that he devoted himself to professional brewing, although it is an elusive opportunity.
“Although I had worked in breweries in Charlotte, I never saw a driveway,” he said. “It’s a bit strange that nothing happened. It’s a bit like an idle dream. being a hobby, and I’ll do it for friends and parties if they wish.
Chance
From Chester County to Greenville it emerged. In the summer of 2020, Campbell discovered an apartment on Rue d’Habitap.
He took his beers to the tavern (Wednesday nights have become a regimen) to get feedback on how they knew and what could be improved. He invited Shoeless Joe Brewery on Mauldin Road, which is also an amateur beer supplier, to share recipes. He helped with Liability Brewing on West Stone Avenue.
A year after its existence, Habitap heard from consumers that the community enjoyed what it sought to tame and would profit from brewing at the site, Mills said.
The concept was raised just as COVID put most of everyone’s plans on hold. When it came time to think seriously about it in the fall of 2021, Mills couldn’t believe anyone but Campbell was leading the effort.
“It was an act of faith, as she was brewing beer at home, but none of us knew how things would happen on the big team,” he said.
At first, Mills said he and general manager Nico Cromwell worked alongside him to master the larger five-barrel system. When they were ready to launch last February, they needed beers to get started.
Chief brewer Candice Campbell is the five-barrel formula for The Habitap’s new on-site operation in Greenville on July 28, 2022. Eric Connor/Staff
The main drink, a pilsner, is named after Campbell and Cromwell’s parties in which the fantasy game Dungeons is played.
“The global we were running was called ‘Fandolin,'” Cromwell said. “She took the global we were betting on and made a beer. “
Today, Campbell’s beers account for 14 of the 50 beers on tap. On Sundays, he regularly spends about six hours brewing beer, recording himself a bit during the week with the help of an assistant.
He is aware of his demographic scarcity in the brewing field. The history instructor explained how brewing in ancient times was done through women. Men hunted and women brewed low-alcohol beers that the circle of relatives fed to ensure the It wasn’t until the Middle Ages and more production, he said, that men took over.
“Women, we were the original breweries,” Campbell said. That is our task: in Sumer, Mesopotamia, Egypt. “
As for the future, Campbell said it’s not just a leading brewer. You need to see your beers sold in stores. And so on.
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