Join us Wednesday October 24th at 7pm
for an amazing dinner featuring
Frederiksdal & Fonta Flora
cocktail + beer reception:
Lolland Libre- Nordic Cherry Likør, white rum, lime, Coca-Cola, rocks
Fonta Flora Kuzilla (APA)
amuse-bouche
carrot jerky + orange peel
sausage saucisson sec + lactose fermented veggies
air bread + ham
1st
duck liver mousse
foie gras, Frederiksdal Kirsebærvin Sur Lie Cherry Wine & Nordic Cherry Likør gelée, apple crunch, sourdough
Frederiksdal Sparkling
2nd
chestnut soup
bacon, foie gras, mushroom thyme dumpling, rye
Fonta Flora All Souls (Saison conditioned on brett w/ farro & bulgar)
3rd
fall salad
poached apples, fennel masala vinaigrette, almond
Fonta Flora Swoon Units (Saison w/ blackberry & angelica root)
4th
ham shank braised in pear juice
smoked onion, fermented garlic, sides for table: roasted carrots, roasted brussels sprouts, beeswax potatoes
Fonta Flora Underground (Kvass brewed w/ pretzels)
Frederiksdal Reserve
5th
blue cheese cheesecake
fourme d’ambert, quince, walnut
Fonta Flora Appalachian Wild Ale: Need a Hug
6th
goat yogurt sorbet
Frederiksdal Solera
7th
ice pressed oxidized gala apples
vanilla ice cream, chamomile tea, oatmeal crumble
Fonta Flora Tiny Bubbles (Saison w/ chamomile & aged hops)
8th
chocolate tart
salt caramel, chocolate sorbet
+
petit fours
vanilla salt caramel
Frederiksdal Rancio
$125 per guest, includes gratuity.
Tickets available at bigtickets.com
We are humbled and honored to have been chosen as the only bar in Georgia to participate in Zwanze Day. Zwanze means “to kid” or “to play around” in Flemish. The Zwanze celebration was created by Jean Van-Roy of Cantillon to be able to make a fun non-traditional lambic flavor as well as to share his love of lambics. In the spirit of fun and lambic appreciation we are attempting to have a casual Zwanze day where hopefully the most people possible get to drink and enjoy the amazing lambics from Cantillon.
On Monday September 17th we will sell 50 Zwanze tickets on a first come, first serve basis beginning at 11:30am when we open. Limit of 2 per guest. Tickets will be $12 and guarantee you a 6oz pour of Zwanze beer and a commemorative glass. We will also be offering bottle pours of Cantillon Fou’Foune and Vigneron at opening and featuring some awesome bottles from the Shelton Brothers Importers.
On Zwanze Day, September 29th, the first 50 guests in the door when we open at 11am will be able to purchase a Zwanze ticket. Once you have purchased your ticket you can choose to stay and grab a coveted seat and drink delicious lambics all afternoon or you may leave. If you leave you are not guaranteed a seat upon your return you will be asked to line up outside and upon receiving your Zwanze you may enjoy it on our patio if there is no space inside.
As long as you are here at 3pm for the tapping of the Zwanze keg, and you have your ticket, you will receive your pour. IF YOU ARE NOT HERE AT 3PM WE WILL NOT HOLD YOUR POUR OF ZWANZE! Also No Ticket, No Zwanze.
After those 100 guests are served, we will allow orders to be taken for the limited amount of Zwanze left in the keg, these will be on a first order, first served basis.
The following Cantillon Kegs will be tapped through out the day for any guest to enjoy a la carte:
11am: Cantillon Classic Gueuze
12pm: Cantillon Kriek
1pm: Cantillon Rose
3pm (Worldwide Toast): Cantillon Zwanze 2018
4pm: Cantillon Nath
Random Tapping: Cantillon Grand Cru Bruocsella
We look forward to celebrating Zwanze with you!
While in Belgium we stopped by Cantillon to see their brewing process. We have visited before, but never while they were brewing! They only brew in the winter when the temperatures are ideal for wild fermentation. It was amazing to see them fill their koelschip, so steamy and delicious smelling!
spent grain being emptied into the back of a truck Mash kettle still being cleaned out
lovely environment for yeast!
This is the koelschip filling up with hot wort!
Look how steamy it get in there!
Thanks for Jean Van-Roy as always for making such amazing beer!
And special thanks Danielle for an awesome tour!
Ten years!?! Can you believe it? Well we aren’t quite there yet, but we are already preparing for the festivities! Verzet was kind enough to collaborate on our 10th Anniversary Brew and they pulled out all the stops to make an east flemish oud bruin with wild fermentation! Check out some of the pictures!
Founders CBS is being released this year. The last time it came out we tapped it on Christmas and we had a line out the door at 5pm when we opened. The keg was gone in an hour and it was a very merry Christmas. This year we will not be buying CBS and this is why.
For the first seven years of existence The Porter was governed by the simple rule of we don’t sell what we don’t like. The “we” was Nick and I. Sometimes we disagreed and we picked up a beer only to drop it a few months later. Sometimes a bartender made an impassioned argument for a particular favorite and so we allowed it. It was an emotional not a logical system, but it ruled out Budweiser, Miller Lite, and PBR, which set us apart from our neighboring bars in Little Five Points.
For years the murkiness within the beer industry grew and we continued to carry what we liked for the most part. When Ballast Point sold to Constellation in 2015 we dropped our Sculpin draft line and started carrying it only in cans. Despite the fact we still liked the beer we didn’t feel like Ballast Point needed us in the way a smaller independent brewery needed bars like The Porter to hand sell and promote their beers.
We were a little guy; we wanted to help the little guys. We still only wanted to carry high quality beers we loved, but if we could also promote breweries that might still need our help it was a win-win. This was the beginning the shift for us. It wasn’t until Wicked Weed sold to AB-InBev in may 2017 that we realized we needed to draw a clear line in the sand.
Wicked Weed is a great brewery. We loved their beer; we had planned a beer dinner with them and a collaboration beer with them for 2017. We carried over thirty of their bottles and put almost every seasonal of theirs on draft. When they sold it felt like a betrayal.
I understand all the wonderful reasons for working hard for years and selling your business when the opportunity arises. It’s the American dream and I do not fault anyone who takes that road. But when a multi billion-dollar company now owns you, you no longer need a single bar in Atlanta Georgia to champion your beer. While the tiny brewpub in Cumming may still need The Porter to spread the word of great craft beer in the middle of nowhere (looking at you, Cherry Street!)
And so in May 2017 we decided we needed a very clear definition of what breweries were craft. We chose to follow the Craft Brewer’s Association definition, which gives a limit of barrels brewed along with several rules for ownership, one of which is that the brewery must be under 25% owned by any non-craft brewery.
Apparently we are in good company, here is a link to an article about bars in DC that have chosen to stop serving Non Craft beer.
Founders is not craft because San Miguel owns 30%. Avery also just sold 30% to San Miguel. Terrapin is over 50% owned by Miller Coors. Goose Island is 100% owned by In-Bev. The list goes on and on, but for clarification I have included a list of breweries we have dropped since May. We might still have a few bottles lingering, but we have not purchased their beer since then.
Wicked Weed
Founders
Ballast Point
Lagunitas
Unibroue
Terrapin
Bosteels (Triple Karmeliet, Kwak)
Rodenbach
The good news for our customers is there is a ton of true craft beer out there. We have not felt hampered by this limitation to our selection of delicious beers. In fact we will be a tapping Prairie Bourbon Barrel Aged Paradise on Christmas along with Vanilla Noir, Coffee Noir and regular Noir, so come see us for a merry craft Christmas!
Thank you for reading.
Cheers!
We are humbled and honored to have been chosen as the first bar in Georgia to participate in Zwanze Day. Zwanze means “to kid”or “to play around” in Flemish. The Zwanze celebration was created by Jean Van-Roy of Cantillon to be able to make a fun non-traditional lambic flavor as well as to share his love of lambics. In the spirit of fun and lambic appreciation we are attempting to have a casual Zwanze day where hopefully the most people possible get to drink and enjoy the amazing lambics from Cantillon.
On September 23rd, the first 100 guests in the door when we open at 11am will be able to purchase a Zwanze ticket, this guarantees you a 6oz pour of Zwanze beer and a commemorative glass. Once you have purchased your ticket you can choose to stay and grab a coveted seat and drink delicious lambics all afternoon or you may leave. If you leave you are not guaranteed a seat upon your return you will be asked to line up outside and upon receiving your Zwanze you may enjoy it on our patio if there is no space inside.
As long as you are here at 3pm for the tapping of the Zwanze keg, and you have your ticket, you will receive your pour. IF YOU ARE NOT HERE AT 3PM WE WILL NOT HOLD YOUR POUR OF ZWANZE! Also No Ticket, No Zwanze.
After those 100 guests are served, we will allow orders to be taken for the limited amount of Zwanze left in the keg, these will be on a first order, first served basis.
The following Cantillon Kegs will be tapped through out the day for any guest to enjoy a la carte:
12pm Cantillon Gueze
1:30pm Vigneronne
5pm Cuvee St. Gilloise
7pm St. Lamvinus
8pm: Cantillon Rose De Gambrinus
Nat will be tapped at some point during the day, but you’ll just have to be here to find out when!
Events for Shelton Fest Week!
We will update further once we have the beers!
Monday August 14th–Carolina Baurnhaus Launch
Tuesday August 15th–Brewski Tap Takeover
Wednesday August 16th–Greenbench w/ Ciders and Meads from Shelton!
Thursday August 17th: Farmhouse as Fuck w/ beers from St. Somewhere, Blackberry Farm, Fantome, Jester King, Fonta Flora, Burial, 8 Wired, Cloudwater, 7th Sun, Stillwater and many more!
Friday August 18th: Session 1.5, the after session with amazing tapping all night long from breweries featured at The Festival!
Saturday August 19th: Session 3, more fabulous beers and breweries from The Festival!
Sunday: Southeaster Showcase****: come drink the best of our locals! Creature Comforts, Coppertail, Green Bench, Burial, Fonta Flora, Hourglass, Torched Hop, Wrecking Bar, Three Taverns and more!
In case you didn’t hear the awesome news, The Shelton Brothers are bringing their fabulous Festival to Atlanta this August! It will be August 18th and 19th and we will be hosting amazing events all weekend!
Here’s the line up so far:
Thursday August 17t: Farmhouse as Fuck w/ beers from St. Somewhere, Blackberry Farm, Fantome, Jester King, Fonta Flora, Burial, 8 Wired, Cloudwater, 7th Sun, Stillwater and many more!
Friday August 18th: Session 1.5, the after session with amazing tapping all night long from breweries featured at The Festival!
Saturday August 19th: Session 3, more fabulous beers and breweries from The Festival!
Sunday: Southeaster Showcase****: come drink the best of our locals! Creature Comforts, Coppertail, Green Bench, Burial, Fonta Flora, Hourglass, Torched Hop, Wrecking Bar, Three Taverns and more!
****Please note we can not serve until 12:30pm due to Georgia State Law.
For the tap takeovers on Thursday and Sunday we will have everything on draft when we open, on Friday and Saturday, special things (Cantillon) will be tapped at special times so stay tuned for updates as we finalize the awesomeness!
Monday May 15th : Verzet vs. Three Taverns
Tuesday May 16th: Burial Mini Beer Dinner
Tickets are $65 at xorbia.com
To Start: Burial Terrestrial Paradise Brett Saison 2016
1st Course: Charred Cucumber w/ tapioca, fermented cucumber juice, lemon balm
paired w/ Garden of Earthly Delights 2016
2nd Course: Foie Gras Torchon w/ pickled green strawberry
paired w/ Fall of the Damned Sour Red Ale
3rd Course: Scallop w/carrot, lemongrass
paired w/ Garden of Earthly Delights 2017
Dessert: Chocolate & Chestnut
Ulfberht Oak Aged Baltic Porter 2016
Wednesday May 17th: is Wicked Weed and Friends Collaboration Tap Takeover, featuring Lost Toys #1 and #2, Happy Blending, Metatropics along with awesome beers from Burial & Creature Comforts on draft. We have also been promised bottles of Red Atrial!
Thursday May 18th: is a massive Allagash Tap Takeover with 8 Beers never before in Georgia!
Friday May 19th: is all Prairie all day, with over 20 prairie beers on draft including Apricot Funk, Barrel Aged Bible Belt and Paradise!
Every Saturday and Sunday from 4pm-9pm The Porter will have a ten table patio in Findley Plaza!
Drink delicious beers and eat fabulous food while watching Little Five Arts Alive Performances!
**Patio may close if there is inclement weather, so cross your fingers for sun!