Tag: Craft Beer

On June 6, Atlanta's craft beer community mourned the loss of one of their own when Dan Rosen, the cofounder of Mazurt Brewing Company, died in an apparent hit-and-run incident on Briarcliff Road. Not long after Rosen's death, Mazurt cofounder Hamp Covington and brewers from Wild Heaven, Max Lager's, and Tampa-based Cigar City began planning a special beer to pay tribute to their friend.

With its new brewery, the Garage, expected to open in late September, Monday Night Brewing has given itself a complete makeover, switching from bottling to canning for most of its beers, redesigning the packaging, introducing two new brews, and retiring two old favorites.

Then, this past spring semester a capstone team of five mechanical engineering seniors from Tech, calling itself “Monday Night Variety Hour,” found a way to quickly, and cheaply, solve a conundrum for MNB: How to speed up the assembly of variety 12-packs.

There will be much at stake later this year when Monday Night Brewing opens its ambitious second facility along with other tenants in a cavernous warehouse at the corner of Lee and White streets alongside a newly completed stretch of the Atlanta BeltLine.

IPAs are the hottest thing in craft beer right now, and Atlanta's market is crowded. That's why Geoffrey Williams took his time perfecting Eventide's latest offering, The 'A'.

From craft beer to Halloween happenings, here are some of best festivals in Atlanta this month.

Breweries now know how to announce and frame their acquisitions to minimize the PR damage of their buyouts. Here’s how they do it.

With 10,000 more locations than their closest competitor, Starbucks dominates the morning coffee market. Now, the Seattle-based chain wants to tempt late-night customers with another sort of beverage: alcohol.

Selling 1,500 growler fills per month right out of the gate, Lance Mendel of TAPS Craft Beer and Growlers imagined turning the business into a franchise and opening a handful more. What didn’t seem likely was the possibility that he’d be closing less than three years later.

Many more details will be revealed in the next few weeks. But here are some of the key questions the lawmakers on their way to Atlanta face coming into the 2016 legislative session.