5 must-visit dive bars across the Southeast
No-frills institutions that set the bar high for cheap beer and good times
Craft beer compromise kicks the can on direct sales
Meanwhile, wholesalers were quick to express their enthusiasm, in part because craft brewers promised to stop pushing for direct sales until 2017.
Porter Beer Bar
The Little Five Points digs may be funky, but husband-and-wife owners Nick Rutherford and Molly Gunn preside over a refined, comprehensive beer program of 500 brews.
The Beer Growler
The Athens original opened in late 2010 and pioneered growler availability in Georgia.
The Fred Bar
On game nights, the noise at the 11,000-square-foot Taco Mac at the Prado, with its eighty-plus TVs, could puncture eardrums.
The Midway Pub
The Midway is quintessential East Atlanta: a converted car repair shop that retains its industrial edge, crowded by tattooed regulars who spill from the brick interior onto a tempting patio when the building’s garage doors are open.
Thinking Man Tavern
Name it and they will come: Emory grad students, Agnes Scott faculty, and other scholarly types claim this dim, scruffy bar on the east edge of downtown Decatur as their watering hole.
Trappeze Pub
Beer lovers devoted to the Brick Store’s reverent approach often mention Athens’s Trappeze in the same breath.
Twain’s Billiards and Tap
In 2006, after ten years in business, this family-friendly pub and pool hall added a microbrewery to its operations.
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