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Florida Beer Trek

By at May 4, 2010 | 8:21 am | 4 Comments

Florida Beer Trek

Florida is not generally noted for the quality of their beer by the common beer community. Several small craft breweries have challenged this apparent misconception, creating some critically acclaimed, award winning beers. Devoted beer bars have been struggling against this image, offering more interesting and rare beers, cask ales, and shirking the macrobreweries of more...

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2009 “Beer” in Review

By at January 20, 2010 | 9:19 pm | 4 Comments

I know, I know—everyone has a year-end article about something. Why should beer be an exception … especially in light of the wonderful year that 2009 represented for metro Atlanta? From new breweries to exceptional new beers to great new destinations—last year was very kind to the beer-ophile in all of us. The final year of the aughts brought us the more...

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Micro Invasion

By at May 14, 2009 | 5:10 pm | 0 Comment

Micro Invasion

Happily in the last several months, many microbreweries are choosing the Atlanta market to expand into. Two more recent additions gaining notoriety throughout Atlanta area pubs are Holy Mackerel from Florida and French Broad Brewing from North Carolina. Both breweries are artisanal small batch breweries, creating limited quantities of each brew. Joining the more...

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