Hop City Krog Street Market groups up with Atlanta road artists for a enjoyable cocktail menu

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Hop City was one of many first companies to open at Krog Street Market in 2014 and, greater than 10 years later, continues to be a flagship throughout the common meals corridor. The firm was a bottle store first, promoting craft beer from Atlanta’s burgeoning craft beer scene, together with wine, earlier than opening the bar with its bountiful draft faucets and cocktail program. The present drink menu, launched in August, has a number of drinks created by among the metropolis’s hottest road artists.

“We were wrestling with finding something that’s just distinctly Atlanta,” says proprietor Kraig Torres. “We always pick an Atlanta theme for our cocktail menu, so we’ve done neighborhoods, and we’ve done strip joints, and we were like, you know, what’s more Atlanta than our amazing street art scene?”

Hop City’s Beltline location is surrounded by paintings, so it’s no shock that the artists themselves are among the many bar’s patrons. These individuals and their work impressed the drinks now out there on the menu, brainstormed by lead bartender Tali Starr, with every taking over a distinct spirit and taste profile.

“We just had to reach out on Instagram and be like, Hey, we’re fans, we’re doing this thing, and they were all super into it,” provides Torres. “They’re really great at art, and, you know, I think we’re pretty good at cocktails. We kind of wanted to stay in our respective lanes as much as we can, but still make everybody feel involved.”

Photograph by Caroline Eubanks

“I’ve been visiting Hop City for years. It’s been my closest and best local craft beer store for years,” says Rory Hawkins, higher recognized by the moniker Catlanta. “I also started working with Kraig in 2018 on their West End location. I did murals for Boxcar and the West End Hop City, as well as the murals at their Trilith location and a few other projects over the years.”

The drink Hawkins impressed relies on the Azalea, the official cocktail of The Masters, with lemon vodka, pineapple juice, and grenadine.

“It’s got a bit of a tropical vibe to it, very bright and sunny, which I think correlates well with the colors I use in my work and the general sense of fun I try to include with my subject matter and pieces,” he says.

Sad Stove has a Mint Julep served up, and Evereman’s drink relies on the Mexican Firing Squad, a Thirties creation made with tequila, lime juice, grenadine, and Angostura bitters. . ClassyStreetz’s drink is a play on the Bees Knees with Murrell’s Row Tulsi gin and candy black tea syrup. LurkingSince1991’s coronary heart stickers discovered all through town play nicely with the strawberry cognac-based Sidecar, infused with jam.

Photograph by Caroline Eubanks

Ronnie Land, aka R. Land, the artist behind Pray for ATL, Loss Cat, and plenty of different acquainted items, is behind the one nonalcoholic drink on the menu. It’s made with three milligrams of THC from Nine Dot, cranberry, lime, and orange juices.

“I’ve just always been so happy that [Hop City is] there,” he says. “It makes sense to me because my studio is literally two blocks up Waddell Street, and it’s been there for 27 years, so long before Krog Street was even there.”

Photograph by Caroline Eubanks

The menu additionally gave locals an opportunity to additional join with the paintings they typically stroll proper previous, says Torres.

“Sometimes we take it for granted when we’re riding our bikes down the Beltline, but it’s not often that you get to meet the guys behind it who’ve been doing it forever.”

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