9 of the very best Atlanta breweries | Intrepid Travel Blog

Rain, hail, or shine, these are the highest ingesting spots to crack a chilly one.

While Atlanta may be generally known as one among America’s most traditionally vital cities, it’s additionally getting a popularity for its beer due to the numerous craft breweries popping up everywhere. With over 30 breweries to select from, it may be laborious to slender down precisely which locations it’s best to go to whenever you’re in want of a foamy beverage.

Luckily for you, we’ve finished the grunt work, and in the case of deciding which Atlanta breweries are the very best of the very best, all you need to do is drink your approach down this checklist. From the experimental flavors of Monday Night Brewing to the historic setting of Wrecking Bar Brewpub, cease in for a beer (or seven) at these prime ingesting spots.

Now get can-crackin’.

Leaving his company workplace job within the Big Apple to pursue his love for craft beer, founding father of Scofflaw Brewing Company, Matt Shirah, concocted up the thought for his brewery in his mother-in-law’s basement in 2015. Since then, Scofflaw Brewing Company has gone from power to power, turning into nationally acclaimed for his or her massive, daring, and flavorful beers.

With brews like ‘Tropical Staycation’, a fruity kettle bitter beer made with pineapple, strawberry, and mango, and ‘Double Jeopardy’, an India Pale Ale with bittersweet, citrusy flavors, this brewery is certain to have a chilly one for everybody.

Who says nice craft beer must be sophisticated? Definitely not these guys. Originally shaped out of a mutual love for tasty beer, founders Nathan, Haley, and Geoffrey began up Eventide Brewing with the thought of displaying fellow Georgians simply how brewtastic ‘craft’ beer will be.

Their massive variety of awards recommend they nailed it. With extra craft beer choices than months in a 12 months, Eventide Brewing is likely one of the finest Atlanta breweries goin’ spherical.  

It seems weekends aren’t the one acceptable days to let your hair down and with that concept, Monday Night Brewing was born. Celebrating the truth that ingesting beer can occur on any day of the week, this funky brewery has taken craft beer to a different stage. With two Atlanta areas to select from, one in West Midtown and the opposite in southwest Atlanta, dive headfirst into hoppy batches, barrel-aged bitter beers, or experimental brews for a taste that gained’t hesitate to smack you within the face.

While listening to the phrases ‘here for a good time, not a long time’ may immediately make you consider cringey bios on varied courting apps, SweetWater Brewery’s perspective in direction of ingesting is altering the sport. Started in 1997 by a few boys extra into having fun with beer than studying books, this brewery not solely guarantees you a tasty, lip-smackin’ beverage but in addition delivers massive time on a laidback and pleasant ambiance. Honestly, what extra may you need?

It will be laborious to search out an atmospheric beer backyard and a delightfully tasty, previous barrel-brew to sip in it, however Orpheus Brewing provides the very best of each. With the thought of catching laughter-filled afternoons or loved-up moments and turning them right into a beer you’ll be able to drink along with your nearest and dearest, this premium craft brewery was born in 2014 and has rapidly develop into one of many go-to spots in Atlanta.

Orpheus Brewing provides beer you’ll be able to each drink and really feel with IPA’s, sours, and barrel-aged stouts amongst their hottest. Also that includes the right beer backyard to get your drink on, you merely can’t go previous this eclectic watering gap, particularly in the summertime.

Another brewery with the intent of fulfilling a dream, Second Self Beer Co locations its concentrate on delivering high-quality craft beer with a facet order of motivation and emotional assist. Encouraging everybody to dive headfirst into turning into who they’ve all the time wished to be (identical to founders and buddies Chris and Jason did once they first began to brew beer and dream massive), Second Self Beer Company not solely provides a few of Atlanta’s finest brews but in addition the very best place to loosen up and unwind.

We don’t find out about you, however all that self-discovery feels like thirsty work and with hazy IPA’s like ‘Game Night’ and Caribbean lagers reminiscent of ‘La Fria’, you’ll end up coming again to Second Self Beer Co time and again and once more.

Craft beer is as a lot part of Atlanta now as historical past has all the time been, so it solely is sensible for the Wrecking Bar Brewpub to mix the 2. Operating out of the Victor H. Kreigshaber House, named after its commissioner who was integral to Atlanta’s financial and cultural improvement in the beginning of the 1900s, the Wrecking Bar Brewpub has cemented itself as a welcoming neighborhood house to be loved by all.  

Whether you are feeling like crackin’ a can alone or ingesting with buddies, this restaurant/bar/brewery does all of it. From providing a cushty but spirited ambiance to serving up experimental ‘milkshake IPAs’ and the extra traditional barrel-aged sturdy beer, you simply may by no means need to go away.

It seems (beer) heaven is a spot on earth. This brewery not solely creates and serves beer that celebrates American innovation but in addition prefers to attract on European flavors and traditions for brews you’ll positively need to write residence about. From their ‘Emergency Beer’, a zesty, Portuguese sea-salty Pils-style session ale, to their ‘White Blackbird’, a Belgian-style Saison with pink peppercorns and earthy notes, Wild Heaven Beer has a chilly one for everybody. 

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