Blog Topic: Beer Me

In the Loop: Breweries Can Sell You Beer to Take Home Again

By Blake Aued | January 26, 2016 4:03pm

Photo Credit: Porter McLeod/file

Creature Comforts' David Stein pours a beer from a tank.

Craft beer brewers have reached a deal with alcohol wholesalers that will allow breweries to essentially sell beer straight to consumers, according to the AJC.

The Georgia legislature passed a law last year allowing breweries to include beer to go with tours, rather than merely letting them drink free samples on-site. Craft breweries hailed the law as making Georgia more competitive for this growing industry; most other states already allowed breweries to operate pubs and/or sell beer to go.

However, after meeting secretly with the middlemen in our state’s three-tiered distribution system (producers, wholesalers and retailers), the Georgia Department of Revenueadministratively gutted the law, barring breweries from charging different rates for different tours depending on how much beer was included in the package.

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Grub Notes: New Releases from Creature Comforts, Southern Brewing

By Blake Aued | January 11, 2016 2:45pm

Creature Comfort Brewery’s first limited release of 2016 will be Paradiso, a fruity version of its Athena berliner weisse.

Meanwhile, Southern Brewing Co. will hold a release party for its Ironmaker kolsch (a light German style) Wednesday, Jan. 20 from 6–9 p.m. at The Foundry.

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Grub Notes: New Beers From Creature Comforts; Second Self Is Coming to Athens

By Blake Aued | December 1, 2015 4:43pm

It’s not a new beer, but milk porter Koko Buni is back and, for the first time, will be available in retail stores in four-packs of cans starting in mid-December. Koko Buni is brewed with 1000 Faces coffee, Condor Chocolates nibs, vanilla and toasted coconut.

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In the Loop: Drunken Mayhem on the Georgia-Georgia Southern Weekend

By Joshua L. Jones | November 24, 2015 11:38am

Photo Credit: Lee Gatlin

After every UGA home football game, Flagpole checks the police blotter to find the weekend’s strangest drunken antics. All information is taken from Athens-Clarke County police reports.

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Grub Notes: Creature Comforts Re-Releases Automatic Pale Ale Today

By Blake Aued | October 15, 2015 12:08pm

It wasn't automatic that Creature Comforts would bring back its Automatic pale ale, but they're doing it, and the first kegs will get tapped today.

The release party kicks off at the Hancock Avenue brewery from 5–8 p.m. with food from White Tiger and music by New Orleans jazz band Roamin’ Jasmine. It then moves to Normaltown for live music, beer and beer cocktails at Normal Bar, Hi-Lo and Old Pal. Prints and T-shirts by Double Dutch Press will be for sale, too.

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Grub Notes: Rejoice/Despair: Pumpkin Spice Season Is Upon Us

By Blake Aued | August 21, 2015 11:17am

The temperature has dipped below 100 degrees, so it must be fall.

Another sign: Terrapin is the first local beverage maker out of the gate with a pumpkin-spice product.

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Grub Notes: Creature Comforts' Newest Beer is a Saison

By Blake Aued | August 6, 2015 5:29pm

Creature Comforts’ next limited release, available in mid-August, will be a saison called Arcadiana.

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Culture Briefs: Terrapin Is Making a 'Walking Dead' Beer

By Blake Aued | July 28, 2015 11:18am

Athens-based Terrapin Beer Co. is releasing an official beer for “The Walking Dead.”

The AMC hit—filmed in and around Atlanta—announced Blood Orange IPA on Friday. “Made with blood orange peel and a horrific amount of hops, this bloodthirsty red IPA will have you prepared for the upcoming zombie apocalypse,” the show's site says.

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In the Loop: Terrapin Almost Left Athens for South Carolina

By Blake Aued | June 24, 2015 12:50pm

Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file

Terrapin Beer Co. used lucrative offers from other states to move its Athens brewery to extract more than $1 million in taxpayer incentive offers from the Athens-Clarke County government, according to documents obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald.

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Grub Notes: Creature Comforts Re-Releases An Athena Variant; Terrapin Has a New IPA

By Blake Aued | June 9, 2015 3:04pm

Photo Credit: Blake Tyers

This week, local brewer Creature Comforts is re-releasing one of its most popular limited releases from last year: Tritonia, a version of its Athena berliner weisse (a light and tart style) brewed with cucumbers and limes.

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