HomeBrew GA

Made it back down to Savannah recently which will probably be the last time in awhile. While not known as a destination beer city, there are some very good to exceptional small breweries around town. Here are a few of my favorites:

servicebrewing.com

Veteran Owned craft brewery in downtown Savannah GA. Local hangout with a selection of year rounds, seasonals and small batch beers. A portion of tap room sales benefit charities that support veterans and service men and women. Hours are Wednesday-Thursday 4-9pm and Friday - Saturday 12-10pm.

Service Brewing is a veteran owned brewery close to the river and downtown. Awesome indoor area and great outdoor seating up front, usually with a food truck. Absolutely fantastic clean and crisp czech pils (Rally Point) is one of their flagships - highly recommended. They also have an excellent west coast IPA (Compass Rose) that is a great bridge between the old school malty/piney examples and new school tropical bombs. They also do several small batch and seasonal offerings - I had the "banana beer" (wheat ale leaning towards hefeweizen), a spring saison, and amber mexican lager - all great representations of the styles.

Next on the list is Two Tides.

Wow, these folks brew up an astounding variety of styles and all exceptionally well executed. When I was there, I had a fantastic kellerbier that was a collaboration with Schilling (on my top 3 list for US lager focused breweries for sure!) in New Hampshire and this crazy berry fruited smoothy sour (not sure I would even call this a "beer" but wow was it good)! They also had a dark czech lager, imperial stout (collab with Burial out of Asheville) and a bunch of (mostly hazy) IPAs on the menu - crazy! I highly recommend these guys if you get to Savannah or are lucky enough to see their stuff on the shelves. The tiny brewery is in a historic old house in the Starland neighborhood outside of downtown.

Another great neighborhood place is Hop Atomica.

www.hopatomica.com

Hop Atomica is Savannah's best brewery restaurant and brewpub specializing in craft beer, wood fired pizza & food in a cool mid-century modern atmosphere.

Very good beer and even better wood fired pizza! They also have a micro-distillery and make some great spirits. I wasn't impressed as much with the beer as on previous visits, but still highly recommend visiting. Not to say that the beer was bad or anything, just not exceptional. I had a seasonal maibock which was very good. Will definitely try more styles on the next visit. The pizza is, in my view, the best in town and it is a great little neighborhood venue both inside and out on the patio.

Hope you can get out to Savannah to see all the sites and enjoy some great beer! Cheers.