Currently there are some awesome Kölsch offerings in Atlanta, and you should familiarize yourself with them all.

Reissdorf: Kölsch

Hailing from Cologne, this is one of the few true Kölsch beers available in Atlanta. Much like how sparkling wine is not allowed to be called “Champagne” because it doesn’t come from that region, most of the offerings we have in America are Kölsch “Style” ales (KSA) for the same reason. This is very traditional representation of the Kölsch style, and can be found at places like Brick Store and the Porter. This is a good beer to try as a control against the other KSA’s so you can compare traditional vs. craft styling.

Mother Earth: Endless River Kölsch Style Ale

This KSA is one of the best examples the “Bros” (Beer Advocate) have rated. It’s currently sitting with a perfect score for the Kölsch Style Ale category on Beer Advocate. You can find it around the city, but usually more so in the warmer months of the year. This one is more a traditional representation of the style, and has nice notes with a very crisp body.

Jekyll: Big Creek Kölsch

This KSA is brewed in Alpharetta, and is a great example of an “Americanized” version of the style, which is not meant to be taken as a bad thing. This example is full of other notes not traditionally found in the Kolsch Style, yet give it a very unique and refreshing twist. This is a great example of a quality beer made in the south.

Eventide: Kolsch Style Ale 

If you notice our beer is not called anything other than what it is. This is for a few reasons, but one major reason is to honor the style. There is a contract all Kölsch breweries sign which dictates what they can call it. Traditionally you are not allowed to name it anything other than “your brand” Kölsch. This is meant to keep people from calling it the “Best Kolsch”, or any other fluff marketing term. It keeps the focus on the style and the purity of the beer (Germans are big on that). So with our Kölsch we keep it somewhat traditional, yet made some changes. For one, we also choose not to filter this style, which give it a hazy look but also maintains all of the flavor. This is a very much against the traditions of the style, most of which are finished to a near pilsner like clarity. We also chose to make the body a little bigger  and more flavorful to really play with the bready yeast finish and lemongrass essence of the hops. The goal here was to create a beer which was super easy on the pallet, easy to drink, and something which any beer fan could enjoy. This is a true crowd pleaser, and we hope you can check it out at your local watering hole soon.

Now that you know some of the best examples of the Kölsch Style Ale, we hope you begin to seek them out. You’re going to see a lot more of these styles coming out from other breweries as well. Expect over the next 3 years for the Kolsch to quickly rise to be one of the top selling styles of beer. The reason is it’s mass appeal to both beer nuts and new comers to the craft industry. So, pick up a Kölsch Style Ale and enjoy its refreshing, easy drinking profile, and let us know what you think.

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Wow! That was the best Bloody Mary I’ve had in a  long time, and I figured I should share this amazing find with you. I went back to Diesel this weekend to take a few pictures of this picturesque drink, and let you know how to improve your next Bloody Mary.

The Perfect Bloody Mary

Step 1: Salt the rim of your glass (Diesel has their own blend of spices)
Step 2:  Fill the glass with a desirable amount of ice
Step 3: Pour 2 oz of dry stout and 1 oz of vodka into your glass
Step 4: Add your Bloody Mary mix of choice
Step 5: Garnish for style points

Take this to the next level by adding a variety of olives, bacon, or a pepper to the garnish. Enjoy!

Mat S.

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Free Glassware on Saturdays: 

• Purchase a growler of Eventide Pale Ale and receive an Eventide pint glass.
• Purchase a growler of Eventide Kölsch and receive an Eventide stange glass.

Win Tickets to Brew at the Zoo:

All day, everyday when you purchase a growler of Eventide you qualify to enter a drawing for a pair of tickets to Brew at the Zoo, an Eventide T-Shirt, and select glassware. Each location will have it’s own drawing to be held on April 26th, so technically you can win 4 times if you are super lucky! Either way, you end up with great beer!

The Beer Growler Locations: 

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As a brewing company, this is exciting for us. The hope is that GA will one day become a popular destination for beer lovers, the same way that other states, like CO and CA, have. We are a ways off from that becoming reality, but the appetite for being great is certainly here. There are a few things which will have to happen for this to come to fruition for us, some of which are already in the works.

Take House Bill 314 for example. HB 314 is the proposed bill that will allow GA breweries to sell a fixed amount of alcohol at their location. This means you could buy a growler or case of beer from a brewery and take it home. The issues with this bill are the antiquated policies and attitudes surrounding alcohol sales and that it doesn’t align with some other interests. There are a few sides to this issue, but only 1 that the consumers are in favor of. No consumer has ever said: “I’d hate to be able to buy the beer I’m currently enjoying directly from the brewery”. It’s going to take a lot of work and support to get to a point where GA is as welcoming of the benefits of craft breweries as other places are, however, there are signs of things moving in that direction. Avondale Estates has shown great support for Wild Heaven getting off the ground, and Decatur has opened its arms to a handful of breweries in the past couple of years. The city of Atlanta is still well behind the curve, with it’s slow process to help breweries and growler shops open. It seems to put up road blocks rather than lending a hand at the current moment. We saw this with our process of getting city approval (which was the longest process of the entire Federal, State, and City licensing) as well have others such as My Friends Growler Shop, who recently opened. Other long standing and successful growler stores like Hop City, have thrived once opened, so it makes no sense for the city to slow the process of successful businesses from opening.

This year there were 25 breweries to join in the event! That doesn’t seem like a lot, and it isn’t compared to other beer states, but it shows we are growing and have lots of room to grow even bigger. To better show GA’s growth potential, here is the break down of a couple of states:

Georgia: 9.9 million people / we drink on average 30 gallons per person per year / 31 breweries/brew pubs

Colorado: 5.2 million people/ they drink 34 gallons per person per year / 140 breweries/brew pubs

North Carolina: 9.8 million / also 30 gallons per person per year / 101 breweries/brew pubs

Our state is already producing some great beers, and some very well respected beers, and the continued growth will only do one thing: Make us better. We are, relatively, small now, but we are employing practices proven to be effective in other states, and coming up our own as well. Hopefully, this will allow the new start up breweries to produce and sustain amazing quality beers in a very short time due. You can see the wider reaching effects of GA brewing in This is already happening when you see collaborations like the one between Heavy Seas and Terrapin called “Free Spirit”.

Local is selling too. Our beers are selling, and selling fast. This is true of all local beer, though, not just Eventide. Look at Jekyll, Monday Night, and Red Hare, they are also in a ton of locations, and growing fast. That only goes to reinforce the fact that our local market is hungry for local product, and we’re filling that demand, but there is still an even greater reason our beer scene is something to watch out for.

There is another big thing happening in Atlanta. High Gravity Hip Hop, the first craft beer focused promotion in this city directed to the non-white demographic, is also experiencing growth. HHGH is directed at the hip hop community, and is focused on combining great talent from both the beer and hip hop world; two worlds which traditionally aren’t spoken about in the same sentence, yet are seeing a lot of traction currently. HGHH is now even on the air doing weekly radio shows.

Events and promotions like HGHH are very important to our state’s beer economy when you consider only 10% of craft beer is consumed by non-white consumers ( IMPACT 2009 Simmons Market Research), yet Georgia’s largest city, Atlanta, is 62% non white. So the non-white community is a 50% larger demographic than those who consume 90% of the craft beer in Atlanta. Getting the largest majority of our city into craft beer, would be opening up the Georgia market to a population equivalent 3x that of New Hampshire.

If you consider our market is growing, the breweries are getting better, and there are now events to showcase those talents then and you can see the reasons Georgia Beer is on the rise. The only things stopping Georgia beer from being considered a great beer destination at this point are legal issues. The talent is here, the appetite for it is here, and the swell could, potentially, rise very quickly after venturing into new markets. With all of these things in our favor it’s not to far out on the horizon to think the next time you’re in Colorado, they’ll be serving Georgia made beer.

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You can also find us:

Tuesday: 

If your not familiar with “Taste of Atlanta” then let us inform you, if you are, we’ll see you Tuesday.

Taste of Atlanta is a premier food + beer + cocktails event held every year. It is a showcase event for us, and is known as one of the best food events in the country (it says that on their website). We’ll be there but also a lot of the restaurants you can find us at will be there as well. Look for The Family Dog, and many others as they server up their best as well.

For more information check out http://tasteofatlanta.com/about.php

Wednesday: At Hopcity and Octane as we pour some of our favorites for you. http://eventidebrewing.com/event/octane-hop-city-tasting-event/

Saturday:   Radio show with High Gravity Hip Hop. http://eventidebrewing.com/event/jwt-radio-show/

PLEASE NOTE: THIS MAP INDICATES A LOCATION TO WHICH OUR BEER HAS BEEN SOLD, BUT THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY RUN OUT OR NOT TAPPED THE KEG YET. PLEASE CALL AHEAD IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONFIRM THAT THE BEER IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.

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