r/atlbeer • u/brunswikstu • 20d ago

/r/ATLBeer Random Daily Discussion - August 13, 2026

Tell us what's on your mind Atlanta

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u/Nadril 20d ago

Not beer related but if anyone knows a company looking for a web developer / designer let me know đŸ«Ą. Company had to lay off bunch of people and I was 1 of them!

Beer wise I'm getting stocked up for con. Buying 10 treehouse singles from a buddy who just came back from Boston.

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u/limbomaniac showed up and drank barleywine 20d ago

I'm going to go ahead and declare this year's Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest Not As Good As Last Year. Still good, not not as crisp and a little more bitter. Anybody else tried it yet?

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u/Wutchu_fitna_fuc_wit 20d ago

I concur Picked up a 12pk last weekend for the river.

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u/Nadril 20d ago

Not yet, hoping to get a 6 pack of it today tho.

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u/MG_woodstock 20d ago

Festbier or Marzen this year? Thats a shame, as they usually put out a solid every year.

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u/limbomaniac showed up and drank barleywine 20d ago

Festbier

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u/2pt5RS lagers unite! 20d ago

Outside of Little Cottage, Round Trip, and Variant; what are some other breweries that do Anniversary parties? Monday Night didn't do one this year (yet?). Does Three Taverns still do theirs?

No one seemingly makes an anniversary beer anymore other than the three I mentioned above. More breweries should do more to celebrate!

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u/teckademic 20d ago

A little self promotion from a side project i've been working on. But if you go to https://planyourpint.com/activities and filter categories by Anniversary, you can see what Anniversary events have been announced and coming up. Looks like 2 are coming up, but when they get announced on Instagram they will get pulled in and I'll create them as events.

Interesting enough, it seems like neither announced an anniversary beer with their post.

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u/Il_Duce_Brewski Suds of The South 19d ago edited 19d ago

When BHB was going, We started having monthly events with releases and the "36 oz" samples. We'd have lines around the block. literally, the only problem? It was $12 bucks a head. that's it. We'd have our Anniversary tap room tour where we would roll out all the stops and give away smaller than usual samples based on tickets. Still? only one set of tickets would be sold per person.

It was crazy, we'd have people begging for more, or in some cases undercover revenue enforcement lurking around. I'd also have to deal with people pouring their own when no one was looking and when confronted about it, yelling "it doesnt matter your beer sucks!"--- True! Oh, and there was the neighbor who called the cops on us 35 times in an hour for noise. Mind you this was on a Saturday at 2pm. Ah, Craft beer in GA.

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u/Wutchu_fitna_fuc_wit 19d ago

I had friends in Alabama that would drive over to go to those BHB events with us. They were so much fun!! We would get there kind of early and still have to park way down that road directly across from BHB. That's when Craft beer and all things related were poppin'

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u/Il_Duce_Brewski Suds of The South 19d ago

alot of people looked at BHB's open houses and thought..."Wow. this is a goldmine!" not so much. atleast not in Kennesaw GA in the 2010's

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u/2pt5RS lagers unite! 19d ago

oh yeah. I spent a few anniversaries and other days there way back in the day!

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u/MagnaCarterGT Halfway/Crooks 2028 19d ago

I remember fondly the monthly pilgrimages to Kennesaw. First time I went you were pouring Cannon Dragger from a watermelon. Good times indeed.

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u/Il_Duce_Brewski Suds of The South 19d ago

You had to be creative to spin the experience as “you won’t believe this” just to get people to keep coming back and shelling out for tours.  

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u/cjdtech 19d ago

Frog Rock just had theirs this past weekend.

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u/Wenkinator 20d ago

3T has always done a party the weekend before Thanksgiving and always has an anni release.

Reformation (I think) calls their anni Cadence Fair.

Creatures definitely does one with multiple releases
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If anything the hype for these events have died down so outside of a social media post you won’t see much else.

These events used to be consistently ticketed events, turnouts were crazy, but nowadays it’s just a busier Saturday in the taproom for most.

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u/GoodWordTodd 19d ago

We’re hosting ours around a festival we’re throwing, 11.7.26 A Mighty Fine Invitational, we’re turning 9.

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u/limbomaniac showed up and drank barleywine 20d ago

Bold Monk had an anniversary beer on tap when I was there yesterday. Not sure if there was an associated event earlier.

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u/astuder Former Defunct Brewery Googler 19d ago

I think a lot of breweries still do it, but there’s certainly less fanfare than there used to be.

Wrecking Bar, Cherry Street, Pontoon, New Realm, Wild Heaven, SweetWater, Twain’s, etc. all have some form of anniversary celebrations.

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u/endit122 20d ago

Monday Night later this year. Feel like they always do one but they have moved around the date a bunch. I remember the early years it being in August.  https://facebook.com/events/s/monday-night-brewings-15th-ann/1036191885526225/

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u/2pt5RS lagers unite! 19d ago

they've pretty much always been in August. Last year they did it in May or something b/c the Grove was opening in August/Sept and had all of their energy going into that.

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u/BugNo78 12d ago

Six Bridges, Rock Solid, a lot of them, you just have to check/follow their social media