date:Sep 24, 2013
ork in several breweries in Colorado and California, including Rockies Brewing Company, Avery Brewing Company and Mammoth Brewing Company. Bensch visited Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympics and saw an opportunity to bring a West Coast style brewery to the Southeast. McNerney soon joined Bensch in Atlanta raising initial funds to open the brewery's first location off I-20 on Fulton Industrial Boulevard.
Bensch named the brewery after kayaking down Sweetwater Creek, a tributary of the Chattah