Field Trip to Sweetwater with Lunch at Brick Store Pub!
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The Group
Wow! What another great Saturday with friends and family!
Phil, Krystle, Hector, Reagan, Bobby, Danielle, and Dan all met at my house in the morning to head down to pick up Amber and Jason before heading to lunch in Decatur. As you may know, I am in love with Brick Store Pub and this was the perfect opportunity to head down there for drinks and some grub. We got a table upstairs near the Belgian bar and had a great time talking, laughing, drinking, and eating some great food. Everyone else seemed to have the same opinion as I as we were leaving. You have to love that place. It is excellent. If you have never been, you HAVE to go. It is incredible with a great atmosphere, huge beer list, great food, and good prices. A complete hit! Check out their site here. Here is our blog entry of our first time at Brick Store.
Great times with great friends
After Brick Store, we headed up towards Sweetwater Brewery. As you know I am a huge fan of supporting our local breweries and fortunately we have three great breweries in the Atlanta area that make it easy to support them. You may have read about Sweetwater Brewery on our blog here and here. It is an excellent microbrewery with excellent beers but due to some previously tough tour hours, we never made it out to check out the brewery. After helping out with the blueberries down at Serenbe Farms, we were told about Sweetwater’s new Saturday tour hours from 2:30 – 4:30 beginning today. They have a live band, excellent atmosphere, great crowd, and of course excellent beer! For $8 they give you a souvenir glass and 6 tickets to get beer each of which allows you a half pint pour. They allow you to sample all of their year round beers and whatever seasonal beer is on tap at the time. We had a blast talking, drinking, and hanging out with great friends. I highly recommend you make it out to Sweetwater Breweryand encourage you even more to support your local breweries. Sweetwater as well as the others make it easy to do so by producing beers that are nationally recongized for their excellence.
At Sweetwater Brewery
After leaving Sweetwaterwe headed back towards the house and had everyone back over to hang out. Hector brought some games and people played, drank, cooked, and chilled for several hours. Being that we started the day early, everyone got pretty tired and headed home around 10:30 or so. It was a great day and a hell of a way to start off the weekend. If you have never been to Brick Store or Sweetwater GO! You will not be disappointed. I don’t get anything for bragging about these great local places. I love great beer, food, and people and establishments like these keep Atlanta excellent!
The taps with liquid heaven
We had such a great time today. Thanks to all that came as well as the guy rapping about “eight ball in my corner pocket” to himself walking around Decatur. Peace up. A-Town down homie! – for our not so urban readers… A-town is Atlanta. LOL
