This Week in Georgia Beer | Jan. 22-28, 2016
This Week in Georgia Beer
On this week’s show we talk about keeping up your New Year’s Resolution to get (or stay) fit while still enjoying craft beer. We’ll talk with Hunter Lainhart of Atlanta’s CrossFit404, and he’ll give us some tips on being active, eating right, and enjoying beer. We also chat with Kevin Ryan, CEO of Service Brewing Co. about some of their lower ABV (and calorie) beers and opening a brewery in Savannah. Our Beers of the Week are session offerings, Service Brewing’s Ground Pounder Pale Ale and Red Brick Brewing’s Casual Session IPA. To correspond with the show we’ve put together a bit of info on Georgia session beers as well as a list of offerings in the state with 5.0% ABV or lower. Make sure to tune in Saturday at 1:00 PM on Atlanta’s AM 920 The Answer (also on iHeartRadio) or listen on-demand via our website, Soundcloud, or your favorite podcasting app. Cheers!
Georgia Beer Events
Saturday | 01/23/16
- Red Hare Root Beer Can Launch | 2:00 – 6:00 PM | Red Hare Brewery
- Southern Sky Brewing Tasting Room Launch | 2:00 – 5:00 PM | Southern Sky Brewing Co.
- 12th Annual Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting | 2:30 – 6:00 PM | 5 Seasons & Taco Mac Prado
- Nuit Belge | 7:00 – 10:00 PM | The Foundry at Puritan Mill
Sunday | 01/24/16
- Wake-n-Bake Off | 4:30 – 7:30 PM | Terrapin Brewery
Beer Releases
Georgia Beer
- Burnt Hickory Courageous Conductor bottles | Red Velvet Porter | We’ve mentioned this a couple times but bottles took a while to make it to stores, they are out there now.
- Creature Comforts Brettomatic | Brett Pale Ale | Another round of bottles hitting shops.
- Orpheus The Rites | NE-style IPA | Released in the tasting room. Cans will follow soon, Orpheus is waiting on label approval.
- Sweetwater Pulled Porter | Bacon Smoked Porter
- Three Taverns Theophan the Recluse | Russian Imperial Stout
Georgia Beer | Future Releases
- Jekyll Fixin’ To | Session IPA | In planning, info could change.
- Red Brick Hype Whale | Imperial Stout aged on Bourbon soaked oak chips | Releasing February 2016
- Sweetwater Hash Session | Session IPA | In planning, info could change.
- Terrapin Sound Czech Pils | Pilsner | Last seen as part of the Theater Sessions, this beer will be revived and relaunched. Expected release is March 2016
Non-Georgia Beer
- Avery Raja | DIPA
- Avery Vanilla Bean Stout | Bourbon barrel-aged Stout with Vanilla Beans
- Brooklyn Black Ops | Bourbon barrel-aged Stout
- Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker | Wheat Ale with Passionfruit
- Green Flash Tangerine Soul Style | IPA with Tangerine
- Green Flash Handshake | IPA
- Green Flash Single Hop Pacific Gem | Single-hop IPA
- Oskar Blues Hotbox | Coffee Porter
- Smuttynose Rocky Road | Stout with cocoa nibs and marshmallow cream aged on oak chips
- Stone Enjoy by 02/14/16 | IPA
- Straight to Ale Bourbon Barrel-aged Laika | Bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Stout
- Straight to Ale Cabernet Barrel-aged Laika | Cabernet barrel-aged Imperial Stout
- Westbrook 5th continuing to make appearances | Raspberry Imperial Stout
- Wicked Weed Brettaberry | Tart Farmhouse Ale with Berries and Honey
Top News This Week
- Burnt Hickory Head Brewery leaving to take position at Galway Bay Brewery in Ireland | (Via Beer Guys Radio)
- Alabama may propose bill to allow direct brewery sales, growlers | (Via whnt.com)
- Furious negotiations underway on proposed beer bill | (Via AJC)
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