Randomly came across this after picking up a copy of “Southern Brew News“.

The Georgia Craft Brewers Guild is excited to announce our first annual Southeastern Craft Brewers’ Symposium. This awesome event is a one-day conference featuring 10, 45 minute seminars from the leaders of the craft brewing industry.  For avid homebrewers there will be seminars on the science of brewing from brewmasters, suppliers, and experts on topics such as yeast, adjunct grains, and recipe development. For the next generation of southeastern brewery owners we’re offering a unique series of seminars on the business of brewing. These seminars will cover everything from how to raise money to how to write a business plan.

Stay tuned to this page for updates to the seminar schedule and other events we’ll be planning around the conference.

• What: Southeastern Craft Brewers Symposium
• When: April 19th, 2014 9am to 5pm
• Where: Courtyard Marriott Downtown Decatur
• Tickets are $130 ($105 for Enthusiasts members)
• Tickets on Sale Now!

Chet just sent in this great picture of Three Taverns Brewery taking delivery of their brand new grain silo.  Cool, huh?

This has been fermenting in the background of Decatur’s food and drink news scene for a couple of months now, and it’s suddenly snuck up on me!  Three Taverns Brewery and Tasting Room opens to the public tomorrow!  Nice spread in Atlanta Magazine today…

Purcell says the Three Taverns tasting experience will run similar to that at SweetWater Brewing Co. Drinkers will pay $12 and receive a souvenir tasting glass plus six tokens redeemable for 5.5-ounce pours. Initially, three or four beers will be available, including the five percent Belgian-style Single Intent, a 7.5 percent Belgian-style American IPA called A Night in Brussels, and a Russian imperial stout named Theophan the Recluse. The Three Taverns-Twains collaboration, called Decatur Ryeson, may be served as well.

“The unveiling of the tasting room will be an unexpected surprise for everyone,” Purcell says. “There’s a lot of texture. You’ll have an experience like you walked into an older time. It’s a very Old World experience.”

Photo courtesy of Three Taverns Facebook page

A snippet from a new post over on the Three Taverns website…

…I finally have the answer you and I have been waiting for, Three Tavens beers will be on tap Friday, July 19!

We’ll launch our two flagship beers, Single Intent, a Belgian-style single ale and A Night In Brussels IPA, a Belgian-style American IPA in kegs throughout Decatur and a few neighboring areas. We’ll kick off the evening’s celebration at at the Brick Store Pub, our official launch headquarters and home base. But the Three Taverns core team will venture out to other spots during the evening to raise a glass and celebrate with our friends and neighbors there as well.

Remember the days when you could go into a Decatur liquor store and your only options were domestic beers and maybe some Sweetwater?  My have times changed!

With the loosening of Georgia’s liquor laws a few years back allowing for higher octane brews, the Decatur market is now flooded with kilo-gallons of beer options.  So, now instead of complaining about a lack of options, I’m now primed to complain about the tyranny of choice!  I walk into Herb’s, Ale Yeah! or Sherlock’s and I’m presented with hundreds of beer options.

So, I need some help.  We’ve done “Best Wines Under $15” recently, but I need some new beer standbys.  So that at the end of a long day, I can go into a beer retailer and have five or six good options that I can grab and go, and not stand there for 10 minutes, mouth agape, before finally picking up another six-pack of 420.

There are a lot of beers, so let’s start with I.P.A.  In the coming weeks we can move on to other ales, porters, Belgians, you name it.