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Bob Townsend
Bob Townsend has been writing about beer and food for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for well over a decade. His Beer Town column appears in the paper's Thursday Food section and his weekly First Look restaurant feature runs in the Wednesday Living section. He frequently writes on a number of topics ranging from cooking, dining and drinking to music, film and travel. Currently the editor of Southern Brew News, a bimonthly beer paper distributed throughout the Southeast, and an associate editor of Beer Connoisseur, he's contributed to All About Beer, Draft, Downbeat, Paste, No Depression, Stomp & Stammer, Playboy.com, the Village Voice and the All Music Guide to Jazz. Townsend grew up on a small family farm, with five siblings, a mother who was an imaginative home cook, and a father who was a basement home brewer.
My articles
It’s a tale of art, beer and plenty of controversy. From the mid-1990s to the present day, artist Ralph Steadman has been the mastermind behind the...
When Kieran McGill opened his first Irish pub in 1996 in the Buckhead Village community of Atlanta, the Summer Olympics hordes were descending on the...
When Nick Rutherford and Molly Gunn opened The Porter Beer Bar in Atlanta’s hip Little Five Points neighborhood in 2008, craft beer wasn’t quite...
On a balmy Saturday afternoon in early October, a convivial throng of beer connoisseurs stood three-deep at the bar at the Brick Store Pub. Many had...
He formulates the brewery’s recipes, which tend toward the strong and hoppy, gives his beers names like Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale and...