Smooth Brewing celebrates one year in Bainbridge, Georgia
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the newest local craft brewery to open in our area: Smooth Brewing in Bainbridge, Georgia. We visit them regularly and talk about them often on social media, but this week's column will be the first time we've ever written about them. So this is both long-overdue and well-deserved. Here's why... Around this very week last year, we were getting ready to throw the Tallahassee Beer Society's eighth-anniversary party, while Smooth Brewing, founded by Florida State grad Drew Kelly, was preparing to hopefully hold its grand opening. We said "hopefully" because Smooth was still waiting on its final licensing from the state of Georgia to officially open. So, that left us with a dilemma: do we write about our anniversary party in the column that week, or roll the dice and write about Smooth even though there was a chance the grand opening would be delayed? Ultimately, we went with the safe bet – our party – but Smooth did end up opening the very same weekend, and we regrettably never doubled back to give them a proper introduction. So this week, that's what we're going to do! Located in Downtown Bainbridge, Smooth became
