The Origin Story

Wild Heaven Beer was launched by Georgia natives Nick Purdy and Eric Johnson, who had known each other since 1992, in 2010. When we launched we were only the 5th Georgia beer company to be operating. We made our beers for 3 ½ years in Greenville, SC by Thomas Creek brewing (Ode To Mercy, Invocation, Eschaton, and Let There Be Light).

Onward & Upward

In 2014, we opened our brewery in Avondale Estates, featuring the original brewhouse originally purchased by the founders of SweetWater Brewing back in 1997. In the year after opening Avondale, we launched Civilization Barleywine, White Blackbird Saison, Emergency Drinking Beer, and more, including a barrel program that has yielded numerous award-winning beers. Avondale features neighborhood food partner Al's Pine Street Market Kitchen. In late 2019 we opened our second brewery location in Atlanta’s Historic West End adjacent to the Westside Beltline Trail. This location features a full kitchen, operated by Taqueria El Tesoro, and a large private event space/music venue. We opened our third location in the Toco Hills development, in partnership with Fox Bros. BBQ, in the Fall of 2024. Our beers are currently distributed in GA, AL, TN & SC.

Who We Are

Our core year-round portfolio is focused on world-class beers designed to offer something new to the beer landscape—not simply creating our version of what everyone else is doing. Our beers are designed in the great tradition of European brewing but with a distinctly American creative flair. Our all-grain, no adjunct-sugar philosophy creates a bigger flavor without excess alcohol. We specialize in both culinary and botanically-driven recipes.

Serve Your Neighbor

In 2023, we broadened our offerings beyond beer to house-made hard cider, seltzers, spirits and Georgia wines. Our motto ‘Serve Your Neighbor’ guides us as a hospitality brand, we’re constantly thinking about how we can make our taprooms fun, relaxing, open places for everyone.

We highly value our community and industry partnerships, highlighting local restaurants as our in-house food partners (Al's Pine Street Market Kitchen at Avondale, Taqueria El Tesoro at West End and Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q at Toco Hills).

“Serve Your Neighbor” has always been more than words — it’s our way of showing up. Over the years, that mission has opened the door to incredible partnerships that make Atlanta stronger, tastier, and more connected.

We’ve shared the table with industry partners like Chef Kevin Gillespie, Chef Steven Satterfield, Chef Carla Fears, Chef Shay Lavi, Banner Butter, Stuckey’s, Victory Sandwich Bar (where Emergency Drinking Beer was born), Beer Street Journal, Eddie’s Attic and Pine Street Market. 

We’ve joined forces with Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia Organics, Atlanta Mushroom Festival, Concrete Jungle, Global Growers, Switchyards, Firebox Initiative, RICE-Atlanta, and Shell to Shore to name a few. 

We’ve raised a glass to good causes with Atlanta Beagle Rescue, Paws Atlanta, Second Helpings, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Giving Kitchen, Les Dames d’Escoffier-Atlanta, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, Crafted for Action and Science for Georgia. 

And we’ve collaborated with neighbors far and wide, from Cigar City to Little Monster to Bold Monk to Bulleit Frontier Whiskey. 

Every pint, every collab, every cause has been another way to live out our motto.