SweetWater Brewing Company is a brewery located in Atlanta, Georgia.
SweetWater was founded in 1997 by two friends, Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney, who met while in school at the University Colorado in Boulder. The first brewery was located off of Fulton Industrial boulevard on Atlanta's west side. February 17, 1997 marked the official beginning of SweetWater as their first beer flowed through their taps. As the demand for SweetWater continued ...
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SweetWater Brewing Company is a brewery located in Atlanta, Georgia.
SweetWater was founded in 1997 by two friends, Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney, who met while in school at the University Colorado in Boulder. The first brewery was located off of Fulton Industrial boulevard on Atlanta's west side. February 17, 1997 marked the official beginning of SweetWater as their first beer flowed through their taps. As the demand for SweetWater continued to rise their capacity was at its max and so, in 2004 they moved to their most recent location off of Monroe and Piedmont Ave in the Armour Ottley Industrial Park.
In 2002 SweetWater was voted Small Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival and Kevin McNerney was voted Brewmaster of the Year, they remain as the only brewery east of the Mississippi that has ever won this award at this festival which began in 1982. SweetWater brews have won numerous nationally recognized awards at both the World Beer Cup and Great American Beer...
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