Located just off of the historic town square, Marietta’s Glover Park Brewery resides in a building dating to the 1930s. Owned by Marietta natives Sam Rambo and Hank Dupre, the brewery includes a tasting room, a patio with a fireplace, a kitchen, and a beer garden. Try the basic Base Camp lager, the McNerney’s Irish nitro stout, or the piney Off The Tracks West Coast IPA. The brewery also offers seltzers made with blueberry puree, Georgia peaches and more, and draft cocktails.

Founded in Woodstock in 2014, this European-influenced brewery is named for the Protestant reform movement. The co-founder is an evangelical pastor who is quite tolerant when it comes to the buzz juice, as fans who love Reformation’s year-round beers, like Stark toasted porter, Jude tripel, and Cadence Belgian ale, can attest. With locations in Canton and its specialty production taproom and beer garden in Smyrna, the brewery also sells limited brews, like a cookies and cream stout and a rosé ale, and have Grand Champion BBQ as a next door neighbor for hungry brew fans.

Atlanta’s oldest craft brewery has been putting out great new brews since rebranding a couple of years ago. Pull up and enjoy a pint of the Hartsfield IPA and other core beers here, or any of the Georgia Aquarium series, including the sweet Tiger Shark Stout, the raspberry Sea Lion Sour, or the coffee and cinnamon Octopus Brown Ale.

Head brewer Craig Mycoskie is fond of German style beers and has brewed beer in cities like Denver and Austin. He even volunteered at SweetWater Brewing in Atlanta while he was in college. Round Trip Brewing features a large, string-lit outdoor seating area, a 12-tap tasting room, and a 15-barrel brewhouse. The selection of beer here includes a dunkel, a keller pilsner, a west-German amber ale, a doppelbock and a helles, and a West Coast IPA, for good measure. Food trucks and pop-ups are scheduled regularly throughout the week featuring everything from barbecue to burgers and franks.

Scofflaw’s original 18,000 square-foot facility and a tasting room, located in the Bolton neighborhood, is still a favorite among locals and westside residents, much like the POG Basement IPA. Now the brewery has a second location nearby at the Works in Underwood Hills. Dr. Scofflaws includes a huge rectangular bar of taps offering the brewery’s standards and special releases. Grab a seat on the outdoor patio featuring the jagged remains of an old brick wall, outdoor heaters, and games.

Located across from Topgolf in Blandtown, this 14,000-square-foot brewery, owned by brothers Brian and Kevin Sullivan, has a 30-barrel brewhouse, and a small batch brew system which lets the freshest brews flow from the brewery’s 24 taps. Tucked well off Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard, Steady Hand offers year-round beers, like Paradise Waits IPA and the Georgia Farmhouse Ale, but expanded its lineup to a crisp new lager and the citrus-vanilla Guava Cake Sour. Watch for food trucks and pop-ups here.

Brewpub Best End Brewing opened in September 2019 at the Lee + White complex in West End just off of the Westside Beltline trail. The brewpub, in the same complex as Monday Night’s Garage, Wild Heaven West End, Hop City Beer, and ASW Distillery, features a 20-barrel brewery and a three-barrel pilot system brewing ales, pilsners, porters, lagers, IPAs, and sours. The food menu includes sandwiches, charcuterie boards, wings, and even pizzas. The bar also serves cocktails, milkshakes and slushies, and natural wines. Check out the awesome dog-friendly patio here and the tiki bar out back.

Part of the burgeoning Westside Brewery District, Fire Maker opened at the start of the pandemic and found its footing fast with area residents who can easily walk to the brewery for beer. Head in for a Hazed and Blazed IPA, the Royal Velvet saison, the Calamity Jane blonde ale, or a Bedfordshire Barleywine. The brewery also offers ciders and seltzers. Watch for restaurant pop-ups here.

The Hapeville brewery, just north of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, gained a name for itself offering year-round brews like the Vienna-style Mexican Empire lager. Now the brewery is busting into the higher tiers with limited release beers like Cold Smoke smoked lager and the Simply Sticky West Coast IPA, thanks to its talented head brewer Justin Ramirez. Order up a case of beer to-go or drink inside at a table or outside in the funky gravel patio. 

This Castleberry Hill brewery is owned by the members of Southern rap quartet Nappy Roots, whose interest in craft beer began years ago with home brewing while on tour. Nappy Roots then started partnering with local Atlanta breweries to create their own beer, including with Monday Night Brewing and pale ale Front Porch and Kentucky Mud, a nitro chocolate milk stout with Arches Brewing in Hapeville. Now the group has their own brewery on Northside Drive where folks can drop by for beer, food from local pop-ups, and live music. Keep an eye out for appearances from Nappy Roots members Fish Scales, Skinny DeVille, B. Stille, and Ron Clutch who often pop by to greet people in the taproom.

Summerhill brewery Halfway Crooks Beer opened on Georgia Avenue in 2019. The tech-themed brewery is owned by electrical engineer Shawn Bainbridge, Tim Kilic, and Belgium-born brewer Joran Van Ginderachte. It includes a ten-barrel brewhouse, where pilsners, pale ales, and lagers comprise the bulk of brewing here. Inside find scattered table seating running the length of the tasting room and two bars — one downstairs and the other upstairs on the second floor, which includes its own ordering counter and a louver ceiling. There’s even a beer garden next door on the weekends. Keep an eye out for food pop-ups and artist markets on the weekends at this brewery,

This brewpub in Grant Park’s Beacon complex features a bright and cheery taproom with a full bar as well as a lively (and dog-friendly) patio outside. Owners Sam and Sara Kazmer took inspiration from the Belgian cafes, Bavarian beer gardens, and English pubs they visited years ago in Europe to create what they consider a drinking hall with cafe vibes at Elsewhere. Pair pilsners, Bavarian hefeweizens, dark Czech lagers, and saisons with dumplings, pimento cheese, crispy Brussels sprouts, and a barbecue pork collar with black-eyed peas here. Be sure to check the schedule for weekly live music and drag show performances, too.

This small Grant Park brewery launched in 2011 just up the road from the retail and restaurant complex the Beacon on Grant Street. Eventide has become part of the tight-knit community here and regularly hosts food trucks and pop-ups as well as trivia and the Grant Park farmers market during the winter.

This Midtown brewery, semi-hidden on Dutch Valley Road with views of the Beltline and Piedmont Park, started with brewmaster Jason Pellet’s love for sour beers. It has now expanded into wider limited releases and barrel-aged brews, some only available at the brewery. Orpheus collaborates with local food businesses, too, such as in the Doughnut Revolution, a lime coconut sour inspired by the pastry glaze at Revolution Doughnuts.

Founded in 2013, this Roswell brewery takes its name from an old Atlanta nickname while paying homage to the greater metro area in brews like the Terminus Porter and OTP double IPA and using the phoenix symbol as its logo. Seasonal premium beers include a chocolate pumpkin porter, a milkshake IPA, and a margarita gose. Check out the local craft makers market and other activities here, including a cornhole league, disc golf, and axe throwing.

A fantastic location has helped this Beltline-based brewery and pub become a neighborhood hangout since opening in 2018, with its full bar, tasting room, and rooftop bar which offers a  sweet skyline view of the city. In addition to IPAs, lagers, and barrel-aged brews, New Realm now offers a brand of seltzers called AlphaWater and makes a very refreshing low-calorie and low-ABV IPA called beLOW. The brewery expanded into distilling vodka and gin in Savannah with a restaurant, brewery, tasting room, and rooftop patio on Whitaker Street and opened a new brewery and restaurant on Daniel Island in Charleston in 2021.

Quietly putting out some of the best canned beer in the city, Wrecking Bar is now under new ownership after founder Bob Sandage stepped away from the business in 2019. Today, the brewpub still offers great brews coming out of its microbrewery, including the Jemmy Stout, Vivant Pils, Sow Your Wild Oatmeal Porter, and even a brew paying homage to Sandage: the pale golden ale/lager Breaking Bob Kölsch.

Considered a nano-brewery, Sabbath Brewing in East Atlanta Village opened in 2021 in the former East Atlanta Barbell Club on Flat Shoals Road. Head here for hazy IPAs, Imperial oatmeal stouts, saisons, and grisette-style beers on tap while taking in some burlesque, a heavy metal drag show, or music from local punk bands.

Hippin’ Hops is Georgia’s first Black-owned brewery with a permanent location. The long-awaited brewpub and oyster bar, owned by Donnica and Clarence Boston, opened in 2021 in the heart of East Atlanta Village inside the former Eastlake Pharmacy building. The charcoal gray-painted building with its bright green neon sign leads people inside to an S-shaped tiled and stone bar and picnic tables throughout, with more seating outside on the side patio and the sidewalk out front. Head in for beer and food menu that includes plenty of oysters done every which way, lobster and Belgian waffles, po’boys, and Cajun shrimp deviled eggs. A second location is now open at the Hosea and 2nd complex in East Lake.

Plenty of beer, food, live music, and good vibes, that’s what From the Earth Brewing Company brings to the Roswell beer scene. Founded by Tim Stevens in 2017, the brewery focuses its taps on a variety of beers, including a Berliner weisse, brown ale, IPA, and a Mexican lager. The food menu here features pimento cheese fritters, Buffalo wings, steak tacos, hot fried chicken, and a seriously large double-stack cheeseburger. Expect weekly live music on stage at the brewery, along with music bingo and other special events.

This Oakhurst-based brewpub opened in 2019. It’s owned by Armando Celentano, Benjamin Rhoades, and Donald Durant of popular East Atlanta Village pub Argosy. The Oakhurst brewpub includes a tasting room and bar with up to 20 taps and a dining room as well as a patio and beer garden. The brewery uses mainly Georgia-grown ingredients, such as satsuma oranges in beers like the Charging Crystals sour IPA. As for food, Sceptre hosts regular weekly food pop-ups in its kitchen.

Chase Medlin, the former head brewer of Twain’s Brewpub and Billiards in Decatur, opened Contrast Artisan Ales in Chamblee in 2018. The brewery is located on Peachtree Road with an outdoor space out front. Some brews have hip-hop references, including the Boom Bap double dry-hopped IPA and the Hypnotize Biggie stout. There’s also the Smoothie Everyday fruited sour with milk sugar, and the brewery’s first lager, the toasted toffee Bayern Brune dunkel.

Launched in 2010 in Avondale Estates, Wild Heaven is another one of Georgia’s early craft beer pioneers. Now with a second location at Lee + White, the brewery expands its seasonal selections, like the Garden Beers and Happiest Hour series and other brews, including the BeltLiner saison. Check out the food menu for the West End location. Head here to grab coffee at the counter in the taproom daily from Finca to Filter.

Located on Olive Street in Avondale Estates, Little Cottage was founded in 2013 by avid home brewer Jon Shari. It’s named for the little gray house he once called home in Sandy Springs. Head in to this congenial neighborhood brewery for helles lagers, goses, IPAs, and brown ales paired with food from a rotating list of pop-ups and food trucks.

This Alpharetta brewery is said to be named for what may have been the South’s first brewery founded in the 18th century, located on Jekyll Island off the Georgia coast. IPAs, ales, and lagers are the focus here, and the IPA Hop Dang Diggity and the American brown ale Cooter Brown remain popular with regulars and retail buyers. But do check out the adventurous pours, like the pineapple and passionfruit 8-Bit Revival DIPA (8 percent ABV) and a coffee version of the Cooter now on tap at the Alpharetta City Center location. Live music can often be heard in the tasting room, and the food menu includes hot wings, a grilled salmon quinoa bowl, and brunch dishes, including warm house doughnuts.

Located on Main Street in downtown Duluth, this 10-barrel facility focuses production on lagers, IPAs, saisons, sours, and stouts, which are sippable from taps from the rectangular bar in the brewpub’s restaurant and for retail purchase. The menu skews fancy for a beer spot, with wings in flavors like spicy gochujang and garlic thyme, along with beef tartare with cured egg yolk, and puffed farro-crusted trout. Brew wise it goes from the low-ABV Analog Life (an English dark ale) to the high-gravity dark chocolate Exit Simulation imperial stout.