Bob Townsend

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 a former associate editor of The 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.

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AUTHOR’S CONTENT

  • The Porter - Atlanta

    The Porter Beer Bar Lifts Atlanta’s Dining Scene

    When Nick Rutherford and Molly Gunn opened The Porter Beer Bar in Atlanta’s hip Little Five Points neighborhood in 2008,…

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  • Ralph Steadman

    Ralph Steadman and His Wild Flying Dog Brewery Beer Labels

    Ralph Steadman has been providing scintillating and risqué beer label artwork to Flying Dog Brewery since it moved to its…

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  • Fado Midtown Atlanta

    Past and Future Present at Fado Irish Pub

    When Kieran McGill opened his first Irish pub in 1996 in the Buckhead Village community of Atlanta, the Summer Olympics…

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  • The Brick Store Pub

    The Brick Store Pub

    On a balmy Saturday afternoon in early October, a convivial throng of beer connoisseurs stood three-deep at the bar at…

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  • Tony Magee

    Lagunitas Brewery Tour

    He formulates the brewery’s recipes, which tend toward the strong and hoppy, gives his beers names like Undercover Investigation Shut-Down…

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