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Mindful of the fact that they were a few guys from Atlanta posting up in Athens to make beer, Creature Comforts owners wanted to make sure they integrated well in their new community. “So we had a CEO, we had a location, and the beer recipes were fully developed. We decided he was too talented and good to pass up,” says Beauchamp. “He had an amazing entrepreneurial spirit. Now Beauchamp and Stein have recipes and a place to make those recipes, but they’ve never stepped foot in a business class in their lives, and they don’t have a clue about accounting.
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It had a historic venue on one side and an art cinema on the other, the best beer bar in Athens right across the street, and so many great restaurants nearby. It has character for days-old brick, a half-barrel dome ceiling, dramatic trusses. Stein had found some people who wanted to open up a brewery in Athens in this amazing building downtown, a historic car dealership built in the 1940s. The story goes like this: Beauchamp is working at Sweetwater Brewing Company in Atlanta when he gets a call from his college acquaintance and homebrewing buddy, Stein, out of the blue. It was intriguing for people he developed this cult following.” “For each beer, his friend Julian Bozeman would draw these strange, psychedelic, interesting creatures. “Dave was homebrewing and offering samples of the homebrew at bars that would feature his brews as specialty kegs,” says Beauchamp. They launched Creature Comforts in the spring of 2014 after Stein had hatched the brand underground, so to speak, in the Decatur neighborhood of Atlanta. People who are fiercely curious seem to have this energy and zeal in all of their pursuits.”įor the crew at Creature Comforts, that pursuit is envelope-pushing, world-class, award-winning craft beer. “We have individual inspirations, but our common thread is curiosity.
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“We’re just really inspired by passionate, curious, innovative people,” says Beauchamp of himself and his cofounders David Stein (head brewer), and Chris Herron (CEO). “Einstein didn’t let the confines of traditional knowledge constrain his thinking,” he explains, giving a nod to the “no-boundaries approach” to beers that he and his business partners have adopted at the brewery. “Albert Einstein was the most curious person ever,” declares Adam Beauchamp, cofounder and brewmaster at Creature Comforts Brewing Co.