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Also on the horizon is our 11th Anniversary Strong Beer Fest! We are hosting right here at the pub on Saturday, December 2nd! This year we've added a VIP Package that includes early entry to the Festival, a Strong Beer Fest T-Shirt, and a VIP exclusive bottle of Ye Olde Sprinklerhead English Barleywine. Click here for tickets to this years event.

The pub is open for full service dining inside! Stay tuned for cooler weather and the expansion back into out Al Fresco dining as well.  Food, beer, and cocktails to-go are available for curbside orders by calling us at 404-221-2600. Please check our website for our current hours and menus, as well as Instagram for updates on new beers, cocktails, and food specials offered daily.

Twelve years going strong as one of the best bars in Atlanta, but don't take it just from us. Click here to see where we sit amongst the best!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the continued support, and expect great food, drink, and festivals from us for years to come.

Today's Beer
This kettle soured ale was brewed with lactose sugar, vanilla beans, cinnamon bark, and over 200 pounds of both sweet and tart cherries. These ingredients combine to emulate flavors of a fresh cherry pie. Notes of pie crust, juicy cherries, and a balanced tartness make for savory and refreshing treat. Tap date 12/27 OG 1.052 IBU 12 ABV 5.7%
Break out the steins, it's the most wonderful time of the year! We brewed this German style Festbier in celebration of the arrival of the cooler autumn weather. Brewed with 100% German barley, hops from Seitz farm in Bavaria, and our house lager strain. This beer is full of malty goodness, yet not too filling, to maintain its crisp drinkability. Prost! Tap Date 9/18 OG 1.058 IBU 28.8 ABV 5.8%
This decadent brown porter contains flavors of light caramel and graham crackers, with dominant notes of smooth sweet cocoa derived from a hefty use of flaked oats and chocolate malt. Delicate American Willamette hops round out this delicious dark beer. In a world of complete chaos, live your best savage life! Tap date 11/4 12.8°P IBU 30 ABV 5.0-%
The "beautiful house" is back! This beer features a combination of Pilsner and Heritage malts as well as Malted Corn from Riverbend Malt in NC, providing notes of toasted bread, soft caramel, and a subtle graininess. A healthy addition of Czech Saaz hops rounds out this thirst-quenching concoction designed to help you beat the heat! Tap Date 11.16 OG 1.049 IBU 20 ABV 5.1%
English Bitter is often overlooked as a style in modern craft beer circles. As such, we decided to brew one as it is a quintessential session beer. Light amber in color, ours has a unique balance of caramel and toasty malt, esters reminiscent of orchard fruit, and a firm hop bitterness. Being true to style, we are serving this beer at a lower level of carbonation to make it as quaffable as possible Tap Date 5/25 OG 1.039 IBU 35 ABV 3.9%
Named after the original property owner, Victor Kriegshaber, this is a West coast style IPA with big hop flavor and smooth bitterness. We have added over three pounds per barrel of Columbus, Chinook, Centennial, & Simcoe hops. This batch of Victor has a healthy addition of malted rye. The rich, bready character of the rye is a fantastic compliment to the piney, citrus and resinous hop profile. Tap Date 4/13 OG 1.062 IBU 51 ABV 7%
Don’t let the color of this beer fool you, a Schwarzbier is a traditional German style lager designed to be deceptively drinkable. Ours is “Americanized” in the slightest with just a touch of extra roasty flavor, but this is every bit as crisp and quaffable as any lager or Kolsch. Tap Date 7/10 OG 1.055 IBU 32 ABV 5.9%
This new batch of Juice Willis is hopped with Mosaic and Citra, then dry hopped with Cashmere and Nelson Sauvin. We used biotransformation technique in the brewing process to fully showcase the hop aromas and flavors. Expect notes of grapefruit, tropical fruits, and black pepper. Tap Date 10/25 13.6°P IBU 60 ABV 6.5%
A traditional Munich Helles brewed with 100% Weyerman malts. This delicious lager has a subtle sweetness to it that is accompanied by a predominate malty flavor that exhibits toasted, bread-like characteristics. Hallertau Mittlefruh, Halleratua Hersbrucker, Tettnanger hops all play a small role in balancing this quaffable German Lager delight! Prost!. Tap Date 6/15 9.7 °P IBU 25 ABV 4.8%
This Helles is a crisp, light lager with moderate smoked characteristic to its malt flavor. We used IREKS Beechwood Malt to ensure a well-balanced yet robust smoked flavor that is refreshing and flavorful! “Don’t put it out with your boots, Ted!” Cheers! Tap Date 9/7 12°P IBU 19 ABV 4.7%
A dopplebock is a bigger and stronger version of the lower-gravity German-style bock beers. A very rich and complex malt profile with flavors of burnt sugar, toasted bread, and hints of dark fruit and raisins. We brewed ours on the lighter ABV side to help ensure drinkability without being too cloyingly sweet and boozy. Expect a smooth and warming malt flavor with that finishes clean and refreshing! Perfect for the cold weather that is rite around the corner.
We brewed this classic German pilsner with a slight modern twist: Hallertau Blanc Hops. This hop was released in 2012 as a German response to bold and flavorful American hops. Bred from American Cascade and grown in Germany, this interesting hop expresses delightful notes of grapefruit and lemongrass with white wine flavors of gooseberry and grass similar to Sauvignon Blanc. Tap date 9/16 11.55°P IBU 37 ABV 4.6%

BEER

Brewing on a 7 barrel system, Bill Arnold & Ryan Donald have developed a beer program that focuses on perfecting classic styles such as Kolsch, Pilsner, ESB, IPA, barrel aged strong beer and session styles. This classic list is balanced with more experimental styles: milkshake IPA’s, fruited gose’s and farmhouse ales, to name a few. Over the last seven years we’ve also developed a barrel aging program, aging stouts, barleywines, and scotch ales in bourbon and rum barrels to bring out the beers best characteristics, winning a Silver Medal in Barrel Aged Strong Ales at the Great American Beer Festival in 2018 for our Willett Bourbon Barrel Aged Ye Old Sprinklerhead Barleywine.

FOOD

Our Executive Chef, Mikey Staniewicz is bringing fresh farm-to-table flavors, while staying rooted in pub classics. We source from local bakeries, dairies, and farms ( including our own ), and believe it’s important to support the local economy and build relationships. The menu keeps a few classics on constantly, while the rest changes to reflect the season, highlighting produce and flavors at their peak.

ABOUT

Housed in a late Victorian building that was once a home, a church, a dance studio, and an architectural salvage store, the Wrecking Bar Brewpub has worked to become a cornerstone of the neighborhood. With a focus on comfortable atmosphere, clean and exciting locally sourced food, an extensive bar program, and excellent beer crafted in house, the goal is to maintain a restaurant that has has something for everyone. Come grab a beer at the bar, or meet up with family and friends for dinner.

OUR TEAM

Events Manager
Brewery Cat, 3 Lives, Lap Enthusiast
Sous Chef
Head Brewer to the Stars
Owner, 12 yrs
Executive Chef, 3 yrs
General Manager, 11 yrs
Manager, Sommelier, Bar 5 yrs
Graphic Artist, 8 yrs
Prep Cook, Comedian, 8 yrs
Manager, Bar, 7 yrs

EVENT SPACES

There are three separate event spaces at the Wrecking Bar Brewpub, each with varying capacity and atmosphere:

The Biergarten

The Biergarten is an  event space in our brewery warehouse that seats up to 42 and holds up to 100 standing. With a long concrete bar, twelve beer taps, and fermentation tanks in the room, it’s definitely a casual venue, and a built-in stage makes it perfect for celebrations involving a band.

The Marianna

The Marianna is our formal event space on the main floor of the house, with a capacity of 30-250 people. It has 13 foot ceilings, stained glass windows, and original fireplaces, and is perfect for weddings (both ceremony and reception), breakout sessions, rehearsal dinners, and holiday parties.

For all event spaces inquiries, please contact Katy at info@themarianna.com

History

“The Victor H. Kriegshaber House is historically significant for its association with Victor Hugo Kriegshaber, who was a leader in the cultural and economic development of Atlanta during the first third of the century, and the original owner of this house. He commissioned the building to be designed by architect Willis F. Danny just before 1900 and lived there with his family until 1924.The Kriegshaber residence is a fine example of Denny’s work; he practiced only a few years in Atlanta before his early death at 31 due to pneumonia, but managed to design many of the city’s most prestigious public and private structures before 1905. Stylistically, the house is a noteworthy transitional statement combining late Victorian and eclectic details.

Kriegshaber was born in 1859 to Prussian immigrants living in Louisville, Kentucky. He did not make his home in Atlanta until 1889, when he left his civil engineer’s position with the Central of Georgia Railway to become a contractor and soon after president for forty-three years of his own building materials supply company. Nine years after his arrival in Atlanta, Kriegshaber was able to afford his elegant showplace on the periphery of Inman Park. He served in executive positions for countless businesses, civic, philanthropic, and cultural organizations. In addition to his building material supply business, Kriegshaber was the founder and first president of the Atlanta Terra Cotta Company, a director of the Atlanta Art Glass Co. and vice-president of the National Builders’ Supply Association. He was a director of the Chamber of Commerce and, in 1914, was part of the committee from the Chamber that spearheaded the new development at Lakewood for the Southeastern Fair. The Fair opened in 1916, the same year that Kriegshaber served as president of the Chamber of Commerce.

A charter member of the Rotary Club, Kriegshaber also served as director of the local council of the Boy Scouts of America, as president of the Jewish Charities and of the Jewish Educational Alliance and was director of the Hebrew Orphan’s Home. He was instrumental in establishing the city’s first public playgrounds for children and was later vice-president of the Playground Association of America. In 1905, Kriegshaber was one of the organizers of the Standard Club, serving as its first vice-president.

Kriegshaber served on the executive committee of the Atlanta Music Festival Association from its founding in 1909 until his death. The first Atlanta Music Festival, held in 1909 in the just completed Auditorium, was such a tremendous success that the Atlanta Music Festival Association inaugurated in 1910 the first of nearly twenty annual spring visits by the Metropolitan Opera to Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium. In addition, his belief in the ability of local musicians and choristers led to the establishment of the Atlanta Philharmonic Society, of which he was president at his death in 1934.”

Wrecking Bar Brewpub

  • Tuesday - Thursday: 5 - 10 pm 
  • Friday: 12 - 11 pm
  • Saturday: 12 - 11 pm 
  • Sunday: 5 - 10 pm 
  • Monday: Closed

 

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