The Skyliner

Issue date: 2/6/08 Section: Entertainment & Features

Media Credit: Trey Lancaster

Kaelyn Pfenning
News/Features Editor

The first Brick House coffee shop opened in Simpsonville, South Carolina, in January 2007. Over the course of the year, four more Brick Houses have opened around Greenville County.

According to the Brick House Coffee Inc - Upstate South Carolina website, "We have experienced an unbelievable response from the community."

The four other Brick Houses opened in Simpsonville, Greer, and two in Greenville because of the success and popularity of the first.

The Brick Houses hire employees for their personalities and expect them to work hard to perfect the art of making coffee.

The Brick Houses provide an assortment of coffees with unusual names through the window of a small, one room building. The Crazy Penguin, a white and milk chocolate mocha, exemplifies one of unique names for their various coffees.

According to the Brick House Coffee Inc - Upstate South Carolina website, "It is our goal to make a difference in each and every one of your lives. Whether that means putting a smile on your face on a cloudy day, or warming you up with a hot cup of joe when it's cold outside."

Liquid Highway, another small coffee shop, contributes to a larger organization called Touch the Ground, which Ricky and Theda Vaughan founded in 2000.

Liquid Highway brought coffee to South Carolina in order to assist a larger cause. "We support groups that go into Ukraine and Siberia to rescue children who live in sewer systems for warmth in the winter."

"Every cent of profit" raised from Liquid Highway coffee shops directly aids "medical clinics, missionaries, schools, orphanages and feeding starving families in 27 countries around the world," according to Liquid Highway's website.

"Our goal is to find and contribute to organizations and ministries who are working in the trenches day to day where the needy and disadvantaged live."

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