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MY JOURNEY TO launching Tapped33 began with curiosity, not capital. While traveling throughout Europe during my Navy deployment, I fell in love with the...

The team at Monday Night Brewing knew they had to do something interesting to make the brewery stand out this summer during the FIFA World Cup, so brewmaster Peter Kiley traveled to Spain and Czechia this spring, partnering with Barcelona's Garage Beer Co. and Prague's Dva Kohouti brewery to create two new limited edition beers. 2XÑEIPA is a paella-inspired New England double IPA and Světlý Ležák Czechia is a dry-hopped Czech pale lager.

Around the South, you’ll find plenty of breweries offering such opportunities. Among them are the destination breweries: extra-special, can’t-miss spots worth planning a trip around. Not only do they serve excellent beer with knowledgeable service to match, they also pour on amenities such as colorful gardens, hiking trails, local art, and memorable meals in picturesque settings. So, round up some thirsty friends and head to these notable Southern breweries—with so much to offer, they are attractions unto themselves.

Last month, co-owner Rhett Caseman and chef and general manager Adi Komic launched Brainwave Pizza inside the brewery. Replacing Glide, which is moving to a new location after operating in the space for three years, Brainwave serves New York-style, thin-crust pizza. “We didn’t want to be a brewery where food is an afterthought,” Caseman says. “We wanted something that paired naturally with our beer and shared the same level of care.”

Monday Night Brewing has come a long way from its humble beginnings in a warehouse on a dead-end street. Its growth and innovation have enabled it to transform into a communal space that caters to both beer enthusiasts and families alike. The latest addition, the Grove, exemplifies this evolution, offering a versatile and welcoming environment along the Atlanta Beltline Westside Trail.

Atlanta’s zest for nonalcoholic beer has created a bit of a conundrum: The process to create the beer is so complicated that local breweries have struggled to meet the demand.

The first brewers of beer, in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, were women. The Sumerians even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi. And in England, women called alewives handled the commercial making and selling of brews well into the 1500s. Nevertheless, the American craft beer revolution has been a decidedly White male–driven movement. But in Atlanta, several prominent women are taking back their sacred rite and making the craft beer scene a space for everyone—and, in so doing, elevating the Southeast as a cradle of beer culture.

Like many local businesses, Chamblee Tap & Market got its start in 2020. To stave off boredom and loneliness, friends David Heymann and Jeff Kimmel started meeting outside to sample and rank different beers. They called it “Beer Club Sundays.” They fell in love with their pandemic project and joked that they should turn it into a business.

Arches has partnered with Melanie Wade Styles of Cultured South and Golda Kombucha to create a one-stop taproom offering beer, wine, cocktails, kombucha, and hard kombucha, as well as vegan burgers and hearty pub sandwiches at Atlanta Utility Works in East Point.

Craft beer hit its gold rush era in the 2010s, with new taphouses opening around the country faster than you could say Hefeweizen. “The theory used to be: build craft beer, and they will come,” says Sam Kazmer of Elsewhere Brewing. “And it is just not that anymore.”