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.

Owned by former teachers and home brewers Thomas Monti and Justin Waller, the aptly named Schoohouse Brewing is an “open-sourced” brewery. If you like a beer, Monti and Waller will simply hand you the recipe to make it at home. The brewery can even provide the necessary tools, instruction, and ingredients to brew its various beers. With a taproom offering 20 rotating beers on tap, a home brew shop, and a dog-friendly patio with games like frisbee golf to play, Schoolhouse Brewing lives by its motto: “Where Education Meets Recess.” A second location called the Gymnasium is located at Emory Point and features a sports theme, several TVs to watch a variety of games, and 16 beers on tap.

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.

The sprawling Underwood Hills brewpub features plenty of seating options inside over two floors, and even includes a small bookshop on the mezzanine. Then there’s the shady beer garden, complete with fire pits for cool evenings. Expect everything from crisp lagers and saisons to seasonal and special releases at Bold Monk, like an Irish stout and Russian imperial stout aged in ASW Fiddler bourbon barrels. Pair beer with Belgian fries, steak frites, a lamb burger, and shrimp and grain bowl.

Brewpub Best End Brewing opened in September 2019 at the Lee and 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, seltzers, and coffee and now includes a great beer garden beside the brewery with an outdoor bar. Watch for restaurant pop-ups here.

One of the founding fathers of Atlanta’s craft beer scene, Monday Night Brewing’s Berkeley Park location continues to serve up standards like the Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale, but now the brewery offers a wide variety of aged and specialty brews, including Space Lettuce DIPA, from the Black Tie series, and heavy sips like Situational Ethics barrel-aged s’mores imperial stout and the Panic Button mixed culture amber ale, both from the Garage Series. The Garage location along the Westside Beltline trail in West End has become a favorite among southwest Atlanta residents. While food trucks and pop-ups are often hosted, Monday Night erves wood-fired pizzas fresh from the oven at both locations.

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 across the street with its own bar. Keep an eye out for food pop-ups and artist markets at the beer garden.

Now owned by Canadian cannabis company Aphria, the longtime Atlanta brewery still feels local, where wings, boiled peanuts and more are steadily coming off the line in the rear kitchen. Brews include the H.A.Z.Y double dry-hopped IPA and the Oasis line of hard seltzers, packed with electrolytes and vitamin C. The Woodlands Project, located next door to the main brewery, continues to be the place for experimental barrel-aged, Belgians and sour beers.

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 in Grant Park and regularly hosts food trucks and pop-ups as well as trivia and other events throughout the week.

Biggerstaff Brewing Company opened next door to Staplehouse in 2021 serving coffee, beer, and a menu of seriously good food. The brewpub first opens for coffee in the mornings, seeing Biggerstaff transform into a cafe offering coffee and espresso drinks as well as pastries. Dinner includes charcuterie and shareable snacks, like smoked Vidalia onion rings, crispy cornbread bites, pork belly atop creamy farrow, and beets and brats. There’s also burgers, sandwiches, and salads, too, all meant to pair with Biggerstaff’s beers, which include IPAs, sours, coffee brews, and a smoked pale ale. The lively front patio at Biggerstaff is a great place to hang with friends. Dogs are always welcome on the patio and treated to fresh water and occasionally a few treats.

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.

Variant opened in historic Roswell in 2017. There’s seating inside in its bright and modern taproom and on the front patio. Among the farmhouse saisons and coffee and vanilla stouts, the Cashmere New England IPA is a standout as well as the tropical and floral Norcross Street IPA

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.

This Dunwoody microbrewery, founded by a group of friends, features a mix of American and German-style beers on rotation in the taproom, including a Berliner weisse, wheat beer, gose, and a triple IPA. There’s also a parking lot patio. Expect food trucks and pop-ups serving dishes at Pontoon throughout the week, as well as weekly trivia and live music.

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.

Owned by Rhett Caseman and Josh Johnson, Inner Voice features nearly one dozen beers on tap, a bar, and a sunny taproom and patio for relaxing with friends in downtown Decatur over a brew or two. The brewery also includes an on-site pizzeria, thanks to a partnership with Glide Pizza. Order beer at the counter or at the bar, then order a slice or whole pie at the Glide window in the taproom, before grabbing a seat. Sip on everything from double IPAs and Mexican-style lagers to kolches and fruited sours.

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.

The original Decatur location has been in business since 2013. Three Taverns offers beers like A Night on Ponce IPA, limited releases, a variety of great sours, including the passionfruit and guava cream Saporous, and the 16-ounce Morning Smack coffee milk stout. Now with its fancy, two-story Imaginarium location at Atlanta Dairies, Three Taverns expands its reach onto Memorial Drive with stone patio tables throughout its outdoor space and several seating areas inside. There’s also a walk-up window here to order beers on draft or six packs to go. Watch for food pop-ups at both locations.

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.

This funky little garage operation sits at the base of Stone Mountain and brings good nerd energy and great beer to the downtown district here. With color-morphing neon, two Sega OutRun auto racing arcades, trivia on Thursdays, and food trucks and pop-ups weekly, Outrun Brewing has quickly become a popular hangout in the historic city east of Atlanta. Pours come in ounces of five and 16, with 32-ounce crowlers of any beer flavor available from the white cinder block tap wall. The sweet-tart Meyer lemon sour is definitely one to take home.