On Monday, Cohort Brewing and Elevate Rapid City announced the Cohort had purchased the Miner Brewing building and surrounding land, which is located on Highway 385, just north of Hill City.
Jason Kingsbury is the Cohort Craft Brewery owner. He says the expansion is an opportunity to grow the brewery’s brand.
“I’m pretty happy with how we’ve brown over the last four years. I’m pretty confident in the product we produce. This opportunity came available," Kingsbury said. "Taking our same local approach that we do here at fifth street, we’re going to bring that down to Hill City, which we’re super excited about. I think we’ll fit in really well.”
According to Elevate Rapid City, the expansion was financed with the support of South Dakota Development Corporation and First National Bank utilizing small business lending programs to help facilitate the purchase.
The ownership group that owned Prairie Berry Winer and Miner Brewing Company closed its doors at the end of 2024.
Parking lots in the area were regularly full during the tourism season.
Memorial Day marks the unofficial opening of tourism season in the Black Hills. As for when the brewery will be open…
“Soon," Kingsbury laughed.
Cohort is looking to build out a kitchen addition to the brewery.
Kingsbury said opening the Cohort Black Hills location will be much easier—as they purchased all the brewing equipment.
“Pretty much everything, we bought. We have to do some pretty minor build out. Sandi [Vojta] kept really good care of her brewing equipment, so that’s not going to be that difficult to get the brewery up and running. The biggest thing is just getting all of our federal, state and county permits to make and sell alcohol.”
Kingsbury said the permits will probably slow Cohort down the most.
