SweetWater Brewing

Crank Tank Returns Smaller, For A Big Cause

SweetWater Brewing released Crank Tank Rye’d Ale a beer benefiting Camp Twin Lakes last year.  Twin Lakes is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing children with serious illness and special needs and their families a recreational outlet.

Crank Tank returns in Continue Reading →

Save The Hooch! Drink Beer!

Headed your way in May from SweetWater Brewing is Waterkeeper Ale.  This beer is a hefeweizen brewed to raise awareness for the Save The Hooch Program, and other waterkeeper programs throughout the Southeast.  Look for this beer to debut at Continue Reading →

SweetWater 420 Gets Label Update

Not huge news, or a drastic change, but SweetWater Brewing’s iconic 420 Extra Pale Ale is getting a label tweak.

Biggest change is the Highway style 420 logo in the bottom center where it previous just had just “420.” (Previously seen Continue Reading →

SweetWater Road Trip Gets New Artwork

SweetWater Brewing’s next seasonal is headed for shelves, and this year with new artwork.  It’s about to hit the taps at tours, then the Tackle Box, then everywhere else.

From SW:
SweetWater’s Bikini Season Catch and Release goodie — Road Trip will Continue Reading →

SweetWater Brewing Plans Expansion

SweetWater Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is planning a brewery expansion.  Founded in 1997, SweetWater has seen exponential growth since opening it’s doors.

Expansion rundown:
-SW recently purchased a building next door
– The permit for which they recently applied covers an additional 49,611 feet
– Continue Reading →

Yahoo! Sports Top 10 Park Beers

A blogger for Yahoo! Sports Rob Iracane lists the top 10 beers at American sports parks.  The list includes Stone Brewing’s IPA, SweetWater Brewing’s 420 (although not as easily found at Turner Field as they say,) Anchor Steam, Dogfish 60 Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, SweetWater Brewing

Crank Tank Returns Smaller, For A Big Cause

SweetWater Brewing released Crank Tank Rye’d Ale a beer benefiting Camp Twin Lakes last year.  Twin Lakes is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing children with serious illness and special needs and their families a recreational outlet.

Crank Tank returns in 2011, both in 22oz bombers and new 12oz/6pks.  Crank will also be available on draft.  In addition to drinking for a good cause, be sure to visit SpinForKids.org.  You can join SweetWater in October for the bike ride.

Style: Rye Beer

Arrival: September, 2011 <Unconfirmed>

6.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, SweetWater Brewing

Save The Hooch! Drink Beer!

Headed your way in May from SweetWater Brewing is Waterkeeper Ale.  This beer is a hefeweizen brewed to raise awareness for the Save The Hooch Program, and other waterkeeper programs throughout the Southeast.  Look for this beer to debut at the Upper Will debut at Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s River Revival May 19th at Park Tavern in Atlanta.

Label:
Beginning almost a decade ago we began working with Upper Chattahoochie Riverkeeper to help them in their mission of protecting the river which provides clean water for millions of folks in the southeast (quite possibly you and definitely the brewery!)  What began as donating cases of Sweetwater for fundraisers and post river clean refreshments turned into the Save the Hooch Campaign, raising over $250,000 to date for UCR’s mission.

The success of the campaign has spread throughout the southeast to other local communities and their local Waterkeepers.  Waterkeeper Hefeweizen continues our mission to raise awareness for Waterkeepers and assist them in their fight to preserve our rivers, streams, and coastlines.

Style: Hefeweizen
Availability: 22oz bombers. (May)  Draft, June, 2011.  Part of Taco Mac’s Beer of the month program.

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater 420 Gets Label Update

Not huge news, or a drastic change, but SweetWater Brewing’s iconic 420 Extra Pale Ale is getting a label tweak.

Biggest change is the Highway style 420 logo in the bottom center where it previous just had just “420.” (Previously seen in stickers & T-shirts only…)

420 is an American Pale ale available in 6pk/12 pk/ & draft year round.

5.4% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in JailHouse Brewing, SweetWater Brewing, Videos

VID: Craft Beer Growth In Georgia

11 Alive News discusses Jailhouse Brewing and SweetWater Brewing and the growth of the beer industry.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater Road Trip Gets New Artwork

SweetWater Brewing’s next seasonal is headed for shelves, and this year with new artwork.  It’s about to hit the taps at tours, then the Tackle Box, then everywhere else.

From SW:
SweetWater’s Bikini Season Catch and Release goodie — Road Trip will be back soon, so start cutting back on the cookies, so you can slip into this fiery Pilsner.  It will be flowing at SweetWater tours starting next week, out in our Tackle Box variety packs towards the end of this month and the six packs and draft will start showing up in your neighborhood joints a few weeks after.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brewery Expansions, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater Brewing Plans Expansion

SweetWater Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is planning a brewery expansion.  Founded in 1997, SweetWater has seen exponential growth since opening it’s doors.

Expansion rundown:
-SW recently purchased a building next door
– The permit for which they recently applied covers an additional 49,611 feet
– Current barrel production – 77,000 barrels (100,000 capacity)
– Post Expansion up to 400,000
– Potentially will expand distribution, but for now to keep up with demand
– Expansion to start:  June 2011, completed in November. Fully running January 2012
– Exisiting Space: 26,000 square feet. Expansion adds 49,600 square feet, and connects to another building of 39,400 square feet.
– Total Space upon completion – 115,000 square feet.
– Upgrades to include new packaging equipment, keg line.

P.S. – Bottling Line for sale. Slightly used.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Dogfish Head, Flying Fish Brewing, Stone Brewing Co., SweetWater Brewing

Yahoo! Sports Top 10 Park Beers

A blogger for Yahoo! Sports Rob Iracane lists the top 10 beers at American sports parks.  The list includes Stone Brewing’s IPA, SweetWater Brewing’s 420 (although not as easily found at Turner Field as they say,) Anchor Steam, Dogfish 60 Minute, Flying Fish,  & more.  A couple are local brews that may not be Rate Beer Top 100 material.  Think of it anthropologically.

1 baseball game can bring 40,00o+ people.  If half of those are thirsty adults that’s a lot of beer…

Article Link —> Big League Stew

by Reid Ramsay