Bye Week Power Rankings: Atlanta Breweries

Drink the beer, for it is good.A wise man — I think his name was Benjamin Franklin — once said: “beer is good, beer is good, beer is good, and stuff.” Who could argue with that? Certainly not I, a person who has far more than a reasonable number of check-ins on Untapped. Georgia used to be — well, let’s not mince words here. When I graduated from Georgia Tech in 2011, Georgia was one of the worst beer states in the nation, thanks to archaic beer laws that kneecapped breweries and favored distributors. (The latter is still the case, but things are much better for brewers now.) Everyone remembers the before times when you “bought” a brewery tour and it came with six free beer tastings, right? It was economical, maybe, but once you were out of tokens, that was it. Georgia has so many more breweries now owing to better beer laws, and in the spirit of Power Rankings week.... it’s time to power rank them.

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