Atlanta
Traditionally Atlanta has lagged behind more brew-friendly Southern cities like Asheville, Nashville or Memphis due to legislation that prevented on-site…
Must-see nightlife in Southern USA
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Charleston
The world’s first hand-crafted sweet-tea-flavored vodka came from this gem of a distillery, tucked into the forest on Wadmalaw Island. Sampling this…
Savannah
One step in the door and you feel the '70s-inspired swank, but then realize the vibe – in true Savannah fashion – is absolutely chill. Friendly barkeeps…
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Asheville
This ever-progressive brewery gives experimental batches of Belgian-leaning styles – farmhouse saisons, strong dubbels and tripels – a Southern kick in…
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Nashville
A towering smokestack rises like an altar in a corner of this steampunk speakeasy. Tucked off an alley in Edgehill Village, the space was a laundromat…
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Sister Louisa's Church of the Living Room & Ping Pong Emporium
Atlanta
This cradle of Edgewood's bar revival fosters a church theme, but it's nothing like Westminster Abbey. Sacrilegious art peppers every patch of free wall…
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Atlanta
A bar for the true suds connoisseur, the Porter has an encyclopedic variety of beers from around the world, including 55 taps and a head-spinning nine…
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Asheville
If you need the funk, you gotta have that funk…and you'll find at it at the East Coast’s first taproom dedicated to sour, wild ale, Brett and funky beer…
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New Orleans
Twelve Mile is simply a great bar. It’s staffed by people who have the skill, both behind the bar and in the kitchen, to work in four-star spots, but who…
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Memphis
A favorite Memphis taproom, Wiseacre is in the warehouse district of Binghampton, 5 miles east of downtown. Sample year-round and seasonal craft brews on…
Tennessee
During the popular and free Music in the Vines party (weekends April to October) you might catch co-owner Kix Brooks, of country-music duo Brooks & Dunn,…
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Atlanta
You enter this incredible basement adult playground under a wordless neon green-and-white duck sign and through a graffitied, black-lit hallway that will…
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New Orleans
This stylish purveyor of cocktails and spirits flickers like an ultramodern apothecary shop, a place where mysterious elixirs are expertly mixed to soothe…
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Charlotte
Charlotte's best craft-beer playground is hidden behind NoDa's new and easy-to-overlook North End brewery. We went up on a Friday night and it looked…
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Atlanta
From the owner of Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall comes one of Atlanta's hottest new tables, an impossibly retro step back in time set on plaid carpeting…
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Atlanta
In the basement of century-old, heroically restored Victorian-style Kriegshaber House (which was a Methodist Protestant church, a dance school and…
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Nashville
Its entrance at an unassuming warehouse marked by a parked military transport Unimog, this taproom's relatively nondescript external set-up belies the…
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North Georgia
Athens' best craft beer emerges from 33 taps at this cutting-edge, dog-friendly former tire shop which excels at staples – Indian Pale Ales (IPAs), amber…
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Memphis
A massive, countrified adult-play oasis in downtown Memphis, this buzzy spot sits on nearly an acre of junkyard-aesthetic beer garden anchored by the old…
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Atlanta
Named after the hard-to-pronounce word for those who said, 'F-you!' to Prohibition laws and continued drinking anyway, Scofflaw Brewing Co's 30-tap…
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New Orleans
This great neighborhood bar is a little more convivial for the older generation, although it’s definitely an all-ages crowd. The men’s bathroom,…
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Georgia
With 78 taps topped by funky, totem-pole-evoking ceramic handles fired by Tire City Potters across the street, Augusta's hophead stomping ground keeps…
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Atlanta
One of two locations in Atlanta, Monday Night Brewing's barrel-aging and souring facility in the West End is set to become its go-to destination and the…
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Atlanta
This East Atlanta gastropub nails it with an extensive list of rare craft beers (35 taps), elevated bar food – house-cut Kennebec potato fries, miso…
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Coastal North Carolina
If you want to belly up to North Carolina's most stunning bar, you'll need to head in the opposite direction of Wilmington's historic downtown and into…
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The Triangle
OK, so the name doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but everything else about this Carrboro wine bar – sorry, ‘wine-centric restaurant’ – oozes sleek…
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Lowcountry
Two blokes – an American-Australian duo – founded this great Mt Pleasant brewery, one of three (and counting) in town. The Aussie brewmaker steeps 6.5lb…
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Atlanta
Decatur hipsters converge on this agonizingly curated cocktail bar and restaurant for both revamped classics such as the 1972 old-fashioned (small-batch…
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The Triangle
If a local says you must order a hot chocolate at Cocoa Cinnamon, ask them to be more specific. This former service station, on downtown's northern…
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East Nashville
With shelves stacked high with jar upon jar of exotically named teas and spices, this bewitching shop would look quite at home between the wand store and…
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Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar
Asheville
A charming champagne bar, sprawling through several opulent vintage-furnished rooms of a glorious old downtown shopping arcade, with every nook and cranny…
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Louisville
One of Louisville's best bars is housed in an old church, with a menu of funked-up pub grub (gourmet Belgian frites, green curry mussels, short rib…
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Downtown & the Gulch
Nashville's best artisan coffeehouse (coffee $3-7) has enlisted an old stereo shop in the Gulch for its downtown location, and its retro aesthetic is a…
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The Triangle
Trophy Brewing have two other locations in Raleigh, a brewery taproom and a classier downtown pub, but their original space, with six taps and a small but…
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Louisiana
This cocktail bar is one of the best things to happen to the Baton Rouge bar scene since the invention of Abita. There's a sepia-toned, dark-wood vibe at…
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Atlanta
Beer hounds geek out on Atlanta's best craft-beer selection at this pub in Decatur, with some 30 meticulously chosen drafts (including those in the more…
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Hunter-Gatherer Brewery at Curtiss-Wright Hangar
South Carolina
The raddest new thing in Columbia is this old airplane hangar that's been converted into a 13,000-sq-ft brewery, taproom and observation deck overlooking…
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Atlanta
With an enviable location (and enormous patio) overlooking the BeltLine, Ladybird offers its patrons one of the best drinking views in Atlanta. Complement…
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Birmingham
Marty's plays to hipsters, cool kids and an unapologetically geeky crowd, who are all attracted to a friendly bar packed with comic book art, Star Wars…
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Birmingham
This is the sort of bar Birmingham boasts would be the envy of New York or Los Angeles. Atomic Lounge is just funky and fun – a cross between a 1950s rec…
