A Brief History Of Atlanta Brewing

By Heather Karellas, contributor

Atlanta’s beer scene has grown exponentially in the past few years, but how did we get here – and what’s next?

While Atlanta had a booming saloon business in the late 1800s, prohibition halted the production and sale of alcohol in the early 20th century. “Atlanta Beer,” a book by Ron Smith and Mary O. Boyle, notes that a few small breweries dotted the city’s landscape in the mid-1900s – but for two decades (1972-1992), there were no Atlanta breweries at all.