Creature Comforts Brewing Co.’s beer garden by the new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium will open to the public at 4 p.m. Friday ahead of the team’s planned fourth game at Erlanger Park.
The stadium opens Tuesday and will offer its own food and beverage options on-site. Athens, Georgia-based Creature Comforts became the first company to announce a new location by the stadium when it publicized plans for the beer garden in early March.
The beer garden will be housed in “the Shed,” a large former U.S. Pipe foundry building that is also hosting the Lookouts team store. The venue will feature Creature Comforts’ full lineup of core, seasonal and limited release beers, according to a press release. The beers have been available in Chattanooga since 2022 at other venues or stores.
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The brewing company will host and honor United Way of Greater Chattanooga volunteers on its opening night with free Lookouts tickets and a behind-the-scenes stadium tour.
“Opening this beer garden gives us an exciting new way to connect with fans in person,” Adam Beauchamp, Creature Comforts co-founder and CEO, said in the press release. “We’re excited to join the Foundries District’s next chapter by creating a space designed to bring people together.”
The beer garden will be open on most game days, non-game-day weekends and other community events like concerts and festivals.
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The U.S. Pipe building is a temporary location for the Creature Comforts beer garden, which the company plans to move into a permanent location nearby along the Tennessee Riverwalk. The former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry site could eventually land nearly $900 million of mixed-use development in a larger special tax district where $1 billion or more of development will help pay for the $115 million stadium.
Creature Comforts is showing the power of businesses asking how they can help, said Terran Anderson, vice president of community and corporate engagement at United Way of Greater Chattanooga.
“By sharing their special night to honor United Way volunteers and local nonprofits, Creature is highlighting how important a connected community is to help local families thrive,” Anderson said in the release.
The brewery was founded in 2014 and is now the 31st largest craft brewery in the U.S. Its beers have won multiple medals at the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup, and its flagship India pale ale, called Tropicália, is the best-selling craft IPA in the Southeast.
— Compiled by Daniel Dassow
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