Red Brick Brewing Co. Interview
US Open Beer Championship Director Rick Roberts interviews Garett Lockhart, President and Brewmaster of Red Brick Brewing Co. Founded in 1993, Red Brick has been the oldest operating brewery in Georgia.
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Red Brick Brewing Brick Mason Series #5: The Lost Years Ale
The Lost Years
The Lost Years, the 5th release of Red Brick Brewing's distinguished Brick Mason Series, is an American Strong Ale brewed with spices and aged in Jim Beam bourbon oak barrels. This copper colored ale gives off aromas of dark fruit and toffee. The taste of caramel and fruity esters are complimented by subtle spicing of orange peel and star anise, followed by hints of bourbon and oak, leading to a warm finish.
The Beer
Style: Barrel Aged Strong Ale
First Release Date: January 2013
Hop Variety: Bravo & Willamette
Stats: ALC/VOL 8.6%, 22 IBUs, SRM 17
Serving Conditions: Best enjoyed at a temperature of 45--50 °F served in a Belgian Tulip glass.
Availability: 12oz Bottles & Draft
Suggested Food / Cheese Pairings: Grilled Meats, Bar-B-Que, Sausages / Aged Gruyere or White Cheddar
The Story Behind the Beer
Why did Red Brick Brewing name this beer The Lost Years? A lot of people don't know that Red Brick Brewing Company was founded as the Atlanta Brewing Company on September 29th, 1993. As the longest operating craft brewery in the state of Georgia, we have a rich brewing tradition, but sometimes our basic math skills are lacking. Allow me to explain. One of our biggest traditions is oak aging beer in celebration of our anniversary. In July 2012 we launched 17th Anniversary Ale as the 3rd release in our Brick Mason series. It was a wonderful beer, oak aged in bourbon barrels. It seemed everyone loved it, and we were all very proud of delivering such a successful beer. However, one day someone did the math...1993 + 17 years...does not equal 2012. Somewhere along the line we lost a couple of years in our anniversary series.
We had no idea how that happened, but it reminded us of the story Rip van Winkle, written by Washington Irving. In this story, the main character, Rip van Winkle fell asleep and woke up twenty years later, having missed the American Revolution, the death of his wife, the marriage of his daughter and the birth of his grandson. Red Brick didn't quite sleep for 20 years, but ironically 2013 is our 20th anniversary! Needless to say, Red Brick felt a link between our lost years and the sleepy old guy whom we honor in effigy on the Lost Years bottle label and the 4pk carton. So there you have the story behind The Lost Years.
To learn more, visit our web site: redbrickbrewing.com
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Southbound Brewing Co.
Southbound Brewing Company will be a microbrewery located in Savannah, Georgia. Southbound anticipates being the newest craft brewery in the state in early 2013, and we aspire to become the most innovating and exciting yet. We want to use our backgrounds, skills, and insights to shed light on the beauty of the craft beer industry to our local community. By bringing the American beer revolution to Savannah's back door, we hope to cater to the tastes of the South by tantalizing your taste buds and keeping things interesting!
Savannah River Brewing Company
When you think about Augusta, you probably think about that big golf tournament.
You likely don't think about craft beer. And up until a couple years ago, you'd be right. Georgia's second largest city had been a beer desert. But some pioneers are starting to change that.
From beer bars like the Hive to breweries like Riverwatch and Savannah River Brewing Company, it's now possible to get some great craft beer in the city.
On this episode, we talk to Savannah River Brewing Company owner Steve Ellison, head brewer Adam Fullmer and taproom manager Ashlie Arsenault about the craft scene, developing a brewery, and the startup process. Plus, Tim tries to pronounce Phinizy Swamp with hilarious results.
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Jailhouse Brewery Tour
Our first stop was Jailhouse Brewery in Hampton, GA about an hour south from Lawrenceville. Jailhouse has been brewing their beer in a refurbished 1920's jail house since the fall of 2009. On tap for the afternoon were: Slammer Wheat, Mugshot IPA, Misdemeanor Ale, and my personal favorite of the day: 4D v.12 - Molly Ringwald (a Red IPA).
Georgia's Brewing History: 1783-2018
Despite the challenges brewers have faced post-Prohibition in Georgia, our state has a rich history of brewing. The first brewery was started in Georgia in 1783 and Atlanta was home to one of the largest breweries in the country from 1858 until 1955. Early craft breweries had varying levels of success in a world where most people were still content with their macro-brewed lagers. However, in the past 5 years the number of breweries in Georgia has more than doubled, and there are more on the way.
Ron Smith and Mary O. Boyle, authors of Atlanta Beer and Prohibition in Atlanta sit down with us at the 2018 Roswell Beer Festival to share some of the great stories behind Georgia's breweries. From the very first brewery, whose early foundations were based on the necessity of having a drink that wasn't filled with bacteria (like water) through to the modern movement towards local and hyper-local breweries.
Credit to Michael Lundmark of Jekyll Brewing for the information on Georgia's first brewery, located on Jekyll Island.
Monkey Wrench Brewing Co: Georgia Craft Brewery in Planning
Founded by award-winning brewer Wayne Baxter, Monkey Wrench Brewing Co. is a craft brewery-in-planning for Gwinnett County, GA. Follow the team from backyard brewing to the pros! Website:
Monkey Wrench Brewing Co is a craft brewery in planning for Gwinnett County, GA. Their business is launching as a result of the dreams and inspiration of a local home brewer Wayne Baxter and his fellow home brew friends. Now his team is taking this backyard operation to the big leagues and preparing plans for construction and launch of a new brewery.
A Snellville, GA resident and father of three, Baxter has been perfecting recipes for the past 17 years, collecting multiple awards along the way for beers like Very Merry Monkey Ale . To compliment these proven products, Monkey Wrench boasts a powerful communications and marketing team led by in-house creative professional Joe Dreher plus sales expertise from local retail/distribution specialist Ashton Cheatham. Monkey Wrench Brewing Co has a rapidly growing social media following and has promoted at beer festivals across the state of GA for the last three years.
Monkey Wrench Brewing Co will handcraft Baxter’s delicious beers in limited, 30 barrel batches to begin. With a diverse portfolio of beers, spanning from IPAs to Belgian blondes to imperial stouts, the team plans to produce a staple of year-round selections along with special seasonal releases.
Follow their start up progress as they “Wrench It UP a Notch” later this year with construction of a new brewery and fun tasting room.
Website: MonkeyWrenchBrewing.com
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A chat with the brewers of Roswell, GA | Roswell Beer Fest 2018
Roswell, GA is a great little craft beer town where the residents are passionate about supporting local business, including their breweries. With just four breweries in Roswell they offer an exciting variety of craft beer styles from Belgian-beers, to IPAs, sours and stouts. Roswell breweries have something for everyone.
We sat down with the good folks behind these breweries at the 2018 Roswell Beer Fest to talk about what inspires them, how they got started in brewing, and what makes Roswell a great town for craft beer.
Joining us for the discussion is:
- Pat Rains from Gate City Brewing
- Kathy Davis from Abbey of the Holy Goats
- Tim Stevens from From the Earth Brewing
- Matt and Lauren Curling from Variant Brewing Co.
Roswell Beer Fest is a non-profit event with all proceeds benefitting the Star House Foundation, providing after-school tutoring and mentoring for at-risk children throughout North Fulton County. Learn more at
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A look at how the states beer laws affect beer production breweries like the Macon Beer Company.
Denver's Black Metal Brewery: Craftwerk with TRVE Brewing Company
There are many breweries in Colorado, but only one craft brewery made for and by metalheads: TRVE Brewing Company. When Nick Nunns and Zach Coleman aren't playing and listening to metal, they're hard at work making beer at their Denvery brewery. Nick and Zach decided to take a different approach in their brewing; instead of concentrating on what the consumer wants, they brew the beer that they wanna brew—and hopefully others like it, too.
While most craft breweries focus on heavy, full-bodied, high-ABV beers, TRVE aims to get full-flavor beers with a lower alcohol content, for good session beers that you can drink without getting totally wrecked.
With a new production faculty in the works, expect to see more of TRVE in the near future.
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Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.
Washington Brewery–the city’s first brewery–opened in 1796. Brewer barons like Christian Heurich and Albert Carry dominated the taps of city saloons until production ground to a halt with Prohibition. Only Heurich survived, and when the venerable institution closed in 1956, Washington, DC, was without a brewery for 55 years. Author and beer scholar Garrett Peck taps this history while introducing readers to the bold new brewers leading the capital’s recent craft beer revival. A book signing will follow the program.
Terrapin - Mosiac Rye IPA - PABrewNews Georgia (American Craft Ale)
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SDSU Business of Craft Beer | Kelly Legan - Crafting a Career
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San Diego State University's Business of Craft Beer program reflects the explosive growth of the craft beer industry in San Diego, the current Craft Beer Capital of the U.S. The program provides hands-on training for those looking to enter or already working in the brewing industry on the business side, rather than the brewing side of operations. This includes creating passionately knowledgeable management and staff in the hospitality industry to give customers a first-class experience.
Beers and Beards with Matt: Laughing Skull Amber Ale
I know I said that I wasn't going to be doing a beer review for about a month but I guess I was wrong.....and SURPRISE!!!
Anyway, this is something new that I found in my beer store the other day, more fine beers from the state of Gerogia, Atlanta to be exact. This is Laughing Skull Amber Ale from the Atlanta Brewing Co. makers of Red Brick Beers (now that's a mouth full).
The first time I saw this beer I was in Atlanta at a restaurant called The Vortex. I didn't get to try it when I was there but the the label intrigued me since it reminded me of a Mardi Gras Voodoo-type thing.
Check out the review to see what I thought about this Amber Ale.
Forsyth County Racism in 1987 (Cumming, GA)
In 1987, The Oprah Show had only been on the air for five months and trouble was brewing in the deep south. Forsyth County, Georgia, known for being a hotbed of racism, was in the headlines for some residents' hostile response to local civil rights protests. For the first time, Oprah left her studio and headed straight into the eye of the storm.
What are you afraid that black people are going to do? Oprah asked the all-white audience of community members. I'm afraid of them coming to Forsyth county, one man said. I lived in Atlanta—I was born in Atlanta—and in 1963 the first blacks were bussed to West Fulton High School. And I go down there now, and I see my neighborhood and my community, which was a nice community, a nice neighborhood, and now it's nothing but a rat-infested slum area because they don't care. They don't care.
Not everyone in the attendance that day shared his indignation. At least one woman contradicted the media portrayal when she said, I just really hate to think that it's going to take either someone black or white getting hurt or losing their lives before people can sit down and talk this out. It is a time for change—there's nothing we can do about it.
Watch highlights from the tense episode above and learn more about a dark chapter in our recent history.
There were 1,098 blacks living there in 1912. Within a matter of months, it had dropped to 30. It's the largest racial cleansing in America that I know of.
—Cox Newspapers reporter Elliot Jaspin
A historic black-and-white photograph of two African American women and one man standing outside
In the early 1900s, there were more than 1,000 African Americans in Forsyth County, Georgia, comprising 10 percent of the population. But in 1912, whites violently expelled all black residents from the county. Today, Forsyth County is home to about 150,000 people, more than 95 percent of them white.
In January 1987, a white martial arts instructor in Forsyth County organized a brotherhood march in honor of the first federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and with the intent of countering the area’s racist image. But en route to the event a bus full of marchers was assaulted by a crowd of white supremacists chanting racial slurs and throwing rocks and bottles. In danger of physical harm, the marchers turned back.
A mob of white men and women shouting and waving Confederate flags
Two weeks later, a much larger march involving 20,000 civil rights activists and supporters from across the country headed back to the county in protest. An estimated 5,000 counter-demonstrators also showed up. This large demonstration cost Forsyth County approximately $670,000 in police overtime, angering many local taxpayers who were unhappy at having to foot the bill for what they saw as outside agitators. The town subsequently levied large parade permit fees to discourage future demonstrations, but that effort was disallowed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Forsyth County, Georgia v. The Nationalist Movement, 1992.
A historic newspaper headline reading “Negroes Flee From Forsyth: Enraged White People Are Driving Blacks From County”
These events brought national media attention to the area. News crews and The Oprah Winfrey Show descended on Forsyth County to investigate. The governor set up a biracial commission to try to heal the racial rift, with little success, and a legal team began to assemble a lawsuit on behalf of the descendants of the black families expelled in 1912. While no suit was filed in the end, the team gathered compelling personal stories and hard evidence of widespread land loss.
Adverse Possession
Building on this evidence, Cox Newspapers reporter Elliot Jaspin was inspired to trace land deeds and tax rolls back to 1912. He found further proof that the majority of the property owned by the banished African Americans was never sold, but instead taken by their white neighbors. Called adverse possession, this process is partly statutory and partly common law, and involves the legal acquisition of a title to a property without having to pay for it. In the case of the land in Forsyth County, white residents simply held the property belonging to black residents following their banishment. In the state of Georgia, the period of adverse possession is seven years. After this period of time, whites legally owned the land.
White title attorneys such as Phil Bettis plead ignorance regarding the appropriation of black-owned land, but some descendants of these black families have declared that the property is rightfully theirs. With missing title transfers and deeds of sale between former black residents and current white property owners are often missing; therefore, returning the land in Forsyth County to the descendants of its rightful owners remains a controversial and legal challenge.
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Man Grabs McDonald’s Worker for Having to Ask for a Straw
A simple drinking straw led to a wild brawl at a Florida McDonald’s in St. Petersburg Monday. When a man in the restaurant was informed that drinking straws were only available to customers who ask for them, he became so upset that he grabbed the 20-year-old McDonald’s worker across the counter. But then, she fought back. What the man had failed to realize was that the employee is a trained boxer. The whole fight was caught on camera.
Teen dies after fight outside middle school
A 13-year old girl from Attucks Middle School ended up on life support at Texas Children's Hospital two days after a fight off campus.
Kashala Francis' mother, Mamie Jackson, says her daughter told her she was attacked by two girls after school on Thursday, and that another girl later jumped in and kicked her in the head.
Jackson says when her daughter returned home Thursday afternoon, she had a bruise on her face, but insisted she was okay.