You can find Halfway Crooks Beer at 60 Georgia Ave SE Atlanta, GA 30312. This is about two blocks from the old Braves stadium between Frasier and Reed Streets. There's some on street parking but really, several lots behind businesses are your best bet - just avoid the lots that have signs "parking for X only" and you should be find. Many of the businesses are closed on weekends so it's a great time to drop by, especially early afternoon.
I've visited this great brewpub on several occasions, going back to the first month it opened. At that time it occupied this classic red brick building with a nice bottom floor bar with additional seating upstairs. The menu was fairly simple and the beers were heavy on the lager side. Since then they've expanded a bit with a Beer Garden across a side street (it's surrounding by brightly painted containers). While the main location has food, I've found different offerings from the Beer Garden including a pretty great smash burger. Also try the Lemon Pepper Wet Wings from inside.
These are the beers I've tried (note that Halfway Crooks prides itself if more traditional beer recipes):
* Sanguine - Pale Ale - Belgian 4.8% - Very solid Belgian with typical spicy banana nose. Light slammable body and dry finish.
* Cassonade Quad - Belgian Quadrupel 10.5% - Tasty with notes of dark fruit in an earthy, malty body. A touch of banana nose and brown sugar, awesome lacing and a dry finish.
* Kelvin - Lager - Smoked 4.8% - Slightly smoky competent Helles lager.
* Distributed Denial of Service (with Burial Brewing) - Kellerbier 5% - Quite good kellerbier, hoppy body with well balanced profile and dry finish.
* Less Data - Pale Ale - American 5.2% - Quite good hazy pale ale, fairly easy drinking with hops throughout and citrus notes of papaya and guava, with a dry hoppy finish.
* Settings - Pale Ale - American 5.2% - Quite good hazy pale ale, dry clean hoppy body with citrus notes, very easy drinking and a great go-to beer.
* Fair Day - IPA - Imperial 8% - Tasty, reminds me a bit of Orpheus' venerable Transmigration of Souls, slightly malty body with notes of stone fruit, piney nose and a burst of hops bitterness to balance thins out.
* Farina - Kolsch 4.8% - Quite competent kolsch, nice malt to hops balance, a bit dry, very easy drinking.
* Ubik - IPA - American 6.8% - What would Philip K. dick say? Fruity dry body with tropical notes, beautiful lacing. Finishing hoppy and bitter.
* Descent - Stout - Russian Imperial 13% - My favorite thus far - Fantastic, big creamy chocolate note up front with mild barrel, transforms into a beautiful tiramisu with great balance and a hint of alcohol booziness in the finish.
* Whole Cone Active Low - Pilsner - German 4.9% - Very easy drinking, good amount of hoppy bitterness, light bready body slightly dry.
The service here is really fantastic, whether you're ordering from the counter at the Beer Garden, sitting at the great bar downstairs, or sitting in the upstairs room (remarkable how fast you get beer up here). In all this is one of the best beerpub experiences you'll encounter in Atlanta, with a great beer selection. read more