This Week in Georgia Beer | Feb. 9-15, 2018
This Week on Beer Guys Radio
This week… Variant Brewing. We sit down with Matt and Lauren Curling in their Roswell taproom to talk about what brought them to open a brewery, what’s coming up in the future, barrel-aging beers, and wall treatments and drapery choices.
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GEORGIA CRAFT BEER EVENTS
Check out our Beer Events Calendar for a full list of what’s happening across Georgia and Alabama.
Friday | February 9th
- Gate City’s 3rd Anniversary Celebration | 11:00 AM | Gate City Brewing (Roswell) – Through Sunday, 02/11
- Wrecking Bar Little Cherry Tart Can Release | 12:00 – 11:00 PM | Wrecking Bar Brewpub (Atlanta)
- National Pizza Day | 4:30 – 9:00 PM | The Southern Brewing Co. (Athens)
Saturday | February 10th
- Galentine’s Day 2018 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Wild Heaven Beer (Decatur)
- Cupcake Flight Pairing | 12:00 – 5:00 PM | Second Self (Atlanta)
- Excolatur Bottle Release | 12:00 – 10:00 PM | Monday Night Garage (Atlanta)
- OBC Limited Release: Stratosbeer! | 12:00 PM | Oconee Brewing Co. (Greensboro)
- Mystik Bock 2018 Release | 1:00 – 6:00 PM | Arches Brewing (Hapeville)
- Valentine’s Day Red Light Green Light Party | 7:00 PM – 12:00 AM | Wild Leap Brew Co. (LaGrange)
Tuesday | February 13th
- Mardi Gras Party SBC Style | 5:00 – 10:00 PM | The Southern Brewing Co. (Athens)
- Sweet Deat & The Revivalists Live at From The Earth Brewery | 6:00 – 9:00 PM | From the Earth Brewing (Roswell)
Wednesday | February 14th | Valentine’s Day <3
- Valentine’s Day at Pontoon Brewing | 4:00 – 10:00 PM | Pontoon Brewing (Sandy Springs)
- Tacos & Trivia | 5:00 – 9:00 PM | Reformation (Woodstock)
- Free Beer Tasting w/ Orpheus Brewing | 5:30 – 7:30 PM | Hop City Westside (Atlanta)
- Valentine’s Day Single’s Party | 6:00 – 10:00 PM | Cypress Street Pint & Plate (Atlanta)
- Team Trivia | 8:00 PM | Your Pie Perimeter (Atlanta)
Thursday | February 15th
- Summits IPA Month Kickoff | 11:00 AM | Summit’s (Snellville) – Through 03/15
- Hazy IPA Party | 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM | Georgia Beer Garden (Atlanta)
- Local Pint Night | 4:00 PM | Craft Public House (Athens)
- CCBC Silent Headphone Show | 6:15 – 10:00 PM | Creature Comforts (Athens)
Next Weekend…
Arches Brewing hosts their first annual pig roast, Reformation releases BA Pinot Cadence, Monday Night holds a Prom, SweetWater turns 21, and Southern Sky celebrates singles awareness.
BEER RELEASES
Beers marked with a * are from breweries owned by AB Inbev, MillerCoors, or other “Big Beer” corporations.
Georgia Craft Beer
- 5 Seasons Bourbon Beer | 7-year-old Ale aged in five different bourbon barrels
- 5 Seasons The Answer 5-year old vintage bottles | Whiskey barrel-aged Belgian “Quintuple”
- Orpheus Maenads | Tripel
- Orpheus Sykophantes Blanc cans | Golden Fig Sour
- Orpheus Truth.Body.Soul. draft/cans | DIPA
- Southern Brewing Co. Mr. Winters | Imperial Chocolate Orange Stout
- SweetWater Woodlands Cambium (distro) | American Wild Ale
- Variant Milkshake Street | West Coast IPA with vanilla and lactose
- Wild Heaven Blackrose | Brett Beer with blackberries and rosemary
Future/Planned Releases
- Monday Night Brewing Tears of My Enemies Bourbon Barrel Vintage 1 | Imperial Milk Stout aged in Bourbon barrels with coffee, chocolate, and vanilla added (Tentative release 03/24)
- Monday Night Brewing Tears of My Enemies Scotch Barrel Vintage 2 | Imperial Milk Stout aged in Scotch barrels with coffee, chocolate, and vanilla added (Tentative release 03/24)
- SweetWater Hatchery Series #6 | Golden Summer Ale
- SweetWater Tropical Love | Berliner Weisse with mango, passion fruit, and guava
Non-Local Craft Beer Releases
- 21st Amendment Baby Horse | Quad
- Alesmith My Bloody Valentine | Red Ale
- Birds Fly South False Face | Bourbon barrel-aged Sour Stout
- Blackberry Farm / Cigar City Southern Fellowship | Belgian Pale
- Catawba King Coconut | Coconut Porter
- Foothills Sexual Chocolate | Imperial Stout
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