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 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.
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.
Wrecking Bar Brewpub
Last year longtime home brewer Bob Sandage and his wife, Kristine, bought and restored the dilapidated, century-old mansion on Moreland Avenue near Little Five Points that previously housed the Wrecking Bar architectural antiques store.
Trappeze Pub
Beer lovers devoted to the Brick Store’s reverent approach often mention Athens’s Trappeze in the same breath.
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.
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.
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.
Eagle & Lion Brew Pub
Oi, Anglophiles! An English-style brewpub specializing in cask-conditioned ale—also known as “real ale”—just opened in March in Griffin, a forty-minute drive south of Downtown.
5 Seasons Brewing
Before the craft beer craze ignited, the original Prado location of 5 Seasons Brewing (which opened in 2001) reigned as leader of the local cult of hops.
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