5 Seasons Brewery
1000 Marietta St, Suite 204, Midtown; 404.875.3232
There are two breeds of creative types: perfectionists like Stanley Kubrick (12yrs between Eyes Wide Shut and Full Metal Jacket), and insanely prolific guys like Prince -- so boundlessly full of material, he must wear assless pants. Getting bounteous with food and beer, 5 Seasons Brewery.
Housed in a former meatpacking facility, 5SB's a massive, three-level beer & grub fest, complete with a subterranean brewery that'll produce a ridiculous 250 suds varieties per year, to be served alongside 30 daily specials (culled from 1000 recipes) in an upstairs patio lounge with glass garage doors, a first floor decked with huge Marietta St-facing windows, and a horseshoe-shaped bar rocking fire hydrant-flanked taps (presumably, no dogs allowed). All grub's made from organic meat & veggies procured from local organic farms, from ferocious takes on fast food (Alligator Eggrolls) to...things involving kumquats (Kumquat-glazed Chili Rice Dusted Scallops); there'll also be grilled pizzas (Chipotle-cured Salmon, Granny Serrano Ham), and heavier stuff like Grassfed Beef Tenderloin and Braised Rabbit Enchiladas w/ carrot & watercress mole, inspired by the children's classic Watercress Down. As for the beer, there'll be 25 daily rotating taps, pumping out organic pale ales, porters, wheats, malts, fruity flavors, and spiced ones, plus high gravity/aged/vintage numbers; there'll also be 25 by-the-glass global wines and rarefied hooch including obscure absinthe (Vieux Carre'), liqueur (Crème de Violette), and vodkas like Square One Organic Cucumber -- square one of getting pickled.
Before summer, 5S will unveil a spacious outdoor beer garden where they'll grow their own organic hops and host a live music soundstage; for Oktoberfest, they'll open up the adjoining parking lot to accommodate over 20k revelers -- enough to lead a revolt, if you am Spartacus.
