You can find Round Trip Brewing at 1279, Seaboard Industrial Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318 in Upper Westside (also sometimes called West Midtown) within the expansive commercial and industrial areas along Collier Rd. They have an unusual amount of available parking for this area out front with available street parking when needed.
Round Trip Brewing joins and ever expanding list of nearby breweries including the fairly new Bold Monk and Fire Maker Breweries, and old staples like Scofflaw, Second Self, Steady Hand, Monday Night and Atlanta Brewing (and Urban Tree Cidery if that's more your thing). The area has become quite a good brewery-hopping destination for those wanting to explore the Atlanta Beer Scene.
I was able to attend the first night of Round Trip's soft opening. The building as noted sits behind a huge parking lot (compared to nearby brewery standards) and features a large room, segmented into a taproom in front of the door where you place your orders (with a reach in cooler for packaged beer), a lounge area to the left with available souvenirs for purchase, a huge set of very clean bathrooms, a fairly large event space in the back, and a 15 barrel brewhouse segmented into a separate space to the right. Bright tanks can be viewed through a glass partition - take a tour if they're available as this is a state-of-the-art fully automated facility and worth viewing. There's space for a canning line on the second floor with pipes and pumps for delivering finished beer directly from the tanks beneath.
In a Q&A with the CEO/brewer Craig Mycoskie, he indicated that he'd come from larger production facilities in the Denver and Austin regions and wanted to do something using a scaled down version of the automated systems encountered there, so had Round Trip's brewhouse designed from those experiences. His focus will be on German craft beer traditions with a few variations thrown in as he learns the local Atlanta market. For beer nerds, he and his teams previously won two gold, a silver and a bronze at GABF.
Before and after the tour I enjoyed a mug of a Dunkel Platz which was perfect for this style and ready for Oktoberfest. I also tried the Vicarious American IPA and the Smokin' Translator, one of the best Doppelbocks I've ever had. (As an aside, whoever did the interior design did a fantastic job of combining modern touches, balanced to the industrial interior mixed with live plants and interesting lighting.) The PPE-wearing staff was very courteous and service very good. Plenty of sanitizer available and the space large and open enough that it was easy to maintain social distancing. I wish this new brewery great success and look forward to another and frequent visits. read more