What’s billed as downtown Roanoke’s first brewery in 20 years has its official grand opening today. They’ll cut the ribbon at Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers at 4:30 … in the old Flowers Bakery building on Shenandoah Avenue…. Nathan Hungate is one of the Soaring Ridge partners…he says the building needed a lot of work…Brewmaster Sean Osborne comes over from the now-defunct Big Daddy’s brewery, which produced popular microbrews like the Virginia Creeper. There are special events planned through Saturday for the Grand Opening. WFIR’s Gene Marrano spoke with Hungate – a former Roanoke College basketball standout:
