Monday Night Brewing to Open Second Location in Atlanta

After only five years since putting out their first beer, Monday Night Brewing is the second largest craft brewery in the state of Georgia. Now they’re ready to continue their expansion by building a second Atlanta location.

Monday Night announced today that they are developing a second facility, this time with extra space so they can focus on barrel-aging and souring beers. The new facility will be 22,000 square feet in area and will feature an on-site orchard, tasting room and patio. The facility will be built along the Westside Trail, as part of Atlanta’s BeltLine, and is projected to open in the summer of 2017.

Monday Night co-founder Jonathan Baker said of the need for the new location:

Our barrel-aged beers have won major awards at competitions like the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup, and we’ve realized we’re pretty darn good at barrel-aging. Unfortunately we simply don’t have the room to do what we want to do at our current brewery.

Co-founder Joel Iverson said the new location will better serve their open-air fermented beers. “The orchard we are planting next to the building will not only provide raw, locally grown ingredients for our new beers, but it will also help with ‘wild’ open air fermentation,” he said.

CEO Jeff Heck said:

We started as three guys brewing with friends, family, and strangers on Monday nights in my garage. There is something really powerful about beer’s ability to connect people. Our purpose at Monday Night is to build community through beer, and working with the BeltLine on this project is a perfect example of that.

Paul Morris, CEO of Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. echoed Heck’s sentiment, saying:

We are encouraged by the steady growth and expansion of local businesses all around the Atlanta BeltLine, because it results in investment that lifts up neighborhoods. We applaud this investment especially because it creates living wage jobs in underserved areas of the city where affordability and economic mobility are most challenged and where the benefits of this kind of investment are even greater.

Kevin Johnson, Senior Vice President of Invest Atlanta, the city’s Economic Development Authority, said, “The addition of new businesses around the Atlanta BeltLine will help Westside communities flourish through greater economic activity, job opportunities, and mobility along the Westside Trail.”

You can read more about the new facility here, and see a sketch of the proposed building below.