SweetGum Brewing Co. will have its beer for sale locally next week.
The Golden Triangle brewing company, owned by Ed Dechert and Cameron Fogle, is based in Starkville. Fogle told The Dispatch that on Monday night at Bin 612 in Starkville there will be a public party featuring his brewery’s “Standby Red Ale.” It’s an Irish red beer. The party starts at 8 p.m.
“This will be the first time that the beer is available for sale,” he said.
The beer should be available in most retail and dining establishments in the area Tuesday. Clark Beverage Group of Starkville is handling distribution.
In Columbus, the Love’s Travel Stop under construction since January should open soon.
Kenny Wiegel said he anticipates the business, which will be located at 525 Tuscaloosa Rd., to open this month. The travel center will be on an eight-acre spot. The structure itself will cover 11,000 square feet. There will also be a tire shop that will cover 10,000 square foot. Each Love’s Travel Stop employs roughly 60 people, according to Convenience Store Decisions, a publication aimed at the convenience store market.
In addition to the soon-to-open Columbus location, there are Love’s in Batesville, Biloxi, Canton, Flowood, McComb, Toomsuba and Tupelo, according to the company’s corporate website.
Lastly, also on Tuscaloosa Road, there is a place called Ms. Shirley’s A Taste of Glory.
Shirley Coleman moved her restaurant to the location in June, following April’s tornadoes. The restaurant had been at Gateway Shooping Center on Alabama Street since 2007.
This week, when The Dispatch stopped by the new location — 205 Tuscaloosa Rd. — to find out what the restaurant offered, we asked Coleman, “Are you the cook?” She laughed and said, “I’m the everything.”
Ms. Shirley’s A Taste of Glory specializes in short orders and soul food from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday. In the morning there are grits, eggs, sausage and bacon and pancakes to be had. At lunch and dinner there are chicken wings, pulled pork and catfish sandwiches, hamburgers, rib tips, nachos, salads, etc. On the second and fourth Sundays of each month, Ms. Shirley serves soul food from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., with dressing, chicken quarters, greens, purple hull peas and fried corn on the menu.
Coleman has been serving Columbus for roughly 20 years. She began in the early ’90s, driving around town selling candy, hot dogs and nachos out of a Geo Metro. Then she opened a restaurant on Lehmberg Road. She attended seminary school after that before opening Ms. Shirley’s A Taste of Glory.
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William Browning was managing editor for The Dispatch until June 2016.
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