Oysters and craft beer make for a dynamic combination, refined with hearty and comfortable. Clarence Boston’s new restaurant Hippin’ Hops in East Atlanta Village celebrates this pairing, supplied by Boston’s own brewery — the first Black-owned brewery in the state of Georgia. Also a mortician with a successful funeral home business, Boston’s enthusiastic about bringing his business talents to living, eating and drinking in the heart of Atlanta. He joined “City Lights” engineer and contributor Shelley Kenneavy to talk about the new venture and what inspired it.
“I own four funeral homes, and the fifth one was going to be in Stone Mountain, which we actually turned it into a production brewery, now,” Boston said. “We were sick and tired of dead people, and we really enjoy making beer.”
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