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The Spirit(s) of Atlanta: Tour and Tastings at Old Fourth Distillery

The pioneers behind Atlanta’s first legal still since… well, a long time ago... are giving you an exclusive backstage pass to tour their distillery, along with a few sips of the good stuff. Cheers for that.

What To Expect

  • A guided tour of Atlanta’s very own Old 4th Distillery
  • Some samples to sip of Old 4th's vodka and gin
  • Your choice of a bottle of vodka or gin to take home
  • A fashionable Old 4th Distillery t-shirt to rep our hometown spirits

Scout Notes


Atlanta’s relationship with alcohol laws has always been tumultuous at best. Even today, we’re under some of the same antiquated laws that ruled our consumption a hundred years ago. And after that dark time in America known as Prohibition ended in the ‘30s, no one had the energy or know-how to navigate Atlanta’s labyrinthine liquor laws to actually open a place that could produce the intoxicating potions we loved so much.

So that means there hasn’t been a distillery open in Atlanta for a looooooong time. It’s a pity, really. That’s why we're so head-over-heels for the vision of Jeff Moore, Craig Moore, and Gabe Pilato- the owners of Old 4th Distillery and Atlanta’s only local liquor craftsmen. These aren’t your average gents who just happen to like a sip of something spirited from time to time. Nope, these are pioneers. They’re the kind of guys who are ok with buying a building on the edge of downtown Atlanta, building it out into a multi-million dollar distillery and THEN asking the city for permission to start producing vodka (and now gin!). Yep, these are the kind of guys who like to shoot first, ask questions later. Well, maybe they don’t like to, but they really had to. One of the reasons there hasn’t been a distillery in Atlanta for so long is because there’s no real process to get one permitted. But thanks to the pioneering spirit of these three visionaries, Atlanta now has its very own home-grown, hand-crafted spirit, with Old 4th Vodka available in 450 restaurants and 150 liquor stores around the city.

We noticed the bottles are little works of art in themselves- the gin bottle is even tinted a bit green. Gabe told us that when they were building out the distillery, they had to dig down two feet to get the stills to fit, and they found an old 1800’s Coca-Cola bottle. Then they did what any Atlanta history-lovin’ gin producer would do- they made the gin bottle the same color. The bottles also show iconic Atlanta locations: on the gin bottle is the old Sears Roebuck building (now Ponce City Market), and the old cotton mill (now the Stacks Lofts) on the vodka. Yep, along with artisanally produced spirits, you get a whole heap-ton of Atlanta history (our favorite kind of history.) The building itself has been a lot of things, including a storage warehouse for Frito Lay chips. (We can bet it’s never seen the kind of spirited action it’s getting in its newest iteration.) And perhaps on the tour you’ll get to hear the stories behind the marble (salvaged from an old school) and the seats (old church pews) and all the other pieces of ATL’s past that went into building the distillery. Yep, Scouts, this one has everything: fashionable accessories, a vodka and gin tasting, and so much history we’re already a little intoxicated.

$30
Elsewhere: Not gonna happen

Location

  • Old Fourth Ward
    487 Edgewood Ave SE,
    Atlanta, GA 30312

Customer Service

e: [email protected]

The Nitty Gritty

  • Must be 21 or older (sorry kiddos!)
  • Price is per person
  • No refunds for missed tour
  • May reschedule up to 24 hours before tour
  • Only 10 spaces available per tour time
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