SweetWater Brewing Company
Atlanta's flagship craft brewery, founded by Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney in 1997. SweetWater built the Southeast craft beer market almost single-handedly — 420 Extra Pale Ale became a regional icon. Acquired by Tilray in 2021 but remains Atlanta's most distributed craft brand.
Beers by SweetWater Brewing Company
3 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
SweetWater Brewing Company brew across 2 style families.
Across these 3 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 360 other breweries brewing American IPA:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
SweetWater 420 Extra Pale Ale
Their beers place in the Top 54% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About SweetWater Brewing Company
Atlanta's flagship craft brewery, founded by Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney in 1997. SweetWater built the Southeast craft beer market almost single-handedly — 420 Extra Pale Ale became a regional icon. Acquired by Tilray in 2021 but remains Atlanta's most distributed craft brand.
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