(Atlanta, GA) – Just received this newsletter from SweetWater Brewing…

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What began as a pipe dream for a couple of kids fresh out of college (one of ’em actually graduated!) who were looking to keep the free beer flowing for themselves, and hopefully make enough dough to feed the dog has turned into pumping close to 100,000 barrels of beer per year out of here! (that translates to 200,000 kegs or 1,378,000 cases – we’ve tried, but we can’t drink it all!)

We are ripping the doors off this place on Feb 18th from 2 – 6 and pulling out all sorts of kegs from our stash hole. We’ll be showing off the new expansion we just built, and we have the boys from Like a Locomotive playing throughout the day. You’ll be able get a sneak peek at some of the casks we are creating for Brew Your Cask Off that day as well.  Tell a friend, and help us celebrate the festivities.  Check out the full list of beers we will be pouring on our Facebook event page.

As for the 15 Anniversary Ale itself…

SweetWater 15 Years of Heady Beers – bottling and kegging this one next week, should be out on draft and in stores by early / mid February (our actual birthday is Feb 17th!)

Lots more detail to come on this one, but for now we can share that this is a step back to our roots as a brewery. We dug up the original ESB recipe from the old days off of Fulton Industrial and gave it a big ol bump. Check the quickie video, and you’ll see one our original founders, Kevin McNerney, came back to create this one with us. Should be a mouth full of goodness, and we’ll be drinking plenty of it at our party on the 18th.

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