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Sierra Nevada, Russian River, Stone were kind of the forefathers of craft beer from California. "It’s so much more established and it’s almost like you’re looking at a bunch of grownups, compared to how we felt when we started. “I fell in love with the beer culture out there,” he said. Personally, Stein said he’s thrilled to be making the move to California, after spending his entire life between Atlanta and Athens. “For the past couple years, I’ve been the VP of Brand Development and Creative, but now I’m shifting my official role to being the founder of Creature Comforts, and I will support the company as the company needs me.” “I’m hoping to move out there by the beginning of next summer, and hoping we are able to open toward the end of next summer or early fall,” he said. But beyond possible complications from the pandemic, permitting is always an issue. brewery and taproom is projected to open sometime next year. location that was already zoned for a brewery. Russo loved the brewery, and Tropicalia in particular, and helped broker the deal for an L.A. brewery had a lot to do with Creature Comforts' friendship with Joe Russo, who directed several “Avengers” and “Captain America” movies, and Pinewood Atlanta Studios. But if the laws become more reasonable, and in line with other states in the U.S., it’s something we will reconsider for Atlanta.” “Then we hit a point in the process where the reality of the restrictive beer laws in Georgia just posed too many barriers and complications, so we put it on an indefinite hold. “We were pretty far along, and it was going to be amazing,” Stein said. But when a part of a bill that would have made it easier to transfer beer between brewery locations was quashed in the Georgia Legislature, they quickly changed course. Little did any of us know then that he would go on to create Tropicalia IPA at nearby Twain’s Brewpub, and launch Creature Comforts in 2014.Įchoing Herron’s post, Stein said Creature Comforts spent over a year working with a developer and a designer on a location for a brewery on the Atlanta Beltline.

My most distinct memory of Stein from that time is that he often pestered people into trying his homebrew. Stein grew up in Atlanta, and I’ve known him since he was a young University of Georgia grad, working at Brick Store Pub in Decatur, and trying to figure out what he wanted to do next.