Originally published on GoUpstate.com, Sept. 19th, 2020. At RJ Rockers, beer is an art. When I decided to bring craft brewing to South Carolina after serving active military duty in Germany, it took twelve long months of craftsmanship and ingenuity to open our doors and become Spartanburg’s first original brewery in 1997.

No matter how it happened, it caught the 30-year-old by surprise. She’s healthy with no pre-existing medical conditions. Yet on a morning in late June, she started feeling unusually sick as COVID-19 took hold.