Though barely organized this year, Atlanta Beer Week kicks off today with the Burnt Hickory Brewery Open House in Kennesaw and the Decatur Craft Beer Festival.
You can find more Beer Week info thoughtfully organized by the keepers of the ATLBeer site.
Other highlights of the week include: the Leon’s and Jailhouse “Nose to Tail” Beer Dinner at Leon's Full Service on Monday; the Allagash Tap Takeover with Rob Tod at Brick Store Pub on Tuesday; the 5 Brewery Tap Takeover, with Boulevard, Orpheus, Terrapin, Second Self and Sierra Nevada at The Porter on Wednesday; the Jekyll Beer Dinner at Southbound on Thursday; the Prairie Artisan Ales Georgia Debut at Argosy on Friday; and the Georgia Craft Beer Festival, and the Wing Cafe Rare and Vintage Beer Fest on Saturday.
One things for sure, there will be no “cheap beer” at any of these events!
In case you missed it, famous New York City chef David Chang doubled down this week in a GQ piece to declare, My Name Is David Chang, and I Hate Fancy Beer :
“For years I've watched craft-beer aficionados go on about their triple-hopped IPAs and cocoa-flavored English milk stouts while inside I've harbored a dark secret: I love cheap, watery swill. Singha, Tecate, Miller High Life—they're all the champagnes of beer, and for more reasons than you think.”
But Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery, fired back at Chang in a drive-by slapping, My Name Is Garrett Oliver, and I Hate Crappy Beer , that hit the real snob where it hurts:
“It's not the fancy beer you don't like. You don't like us, your people. You have a ‘tenuous relationship with the Epicurean snob set?’ You are the epicurean snob set! I've seen you with champagne in one hand and a Noma lamb leg in the other, chatting up celebrities. Why you frontin’? You spent your first three paragraphs insulting people just like you…is the cash, fame and luxury not working out?”
Ouch!
Bob Townsend
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