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SweetWater Brewing Company is a craft brewery founded in 1997 by Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerny in Atlanta, Georgia. SweetWater’s beer is unpasteurized, so distribution is limited to select states in the Southeast.

Founders Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerny were roommates at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where they also worked part-time cleaning kegs at a local brewery. After graduation in 1993, Bensch moved to California to study at the American Brewers Guild, while McNerney went on to work in several breweries in Colorado and California, including Rockies Brewing Company, Avery Brewing Company and Mammoth Brewing Company.[1] 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 Cr ...

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