SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

A Norsemen Viking themed brewpub-sportsbar, DEBELLATION BREWING COMPANY is stationed at a tan corrugated steel Industrial building right off Route 95 just outside Savannah in the affluent coastal town of Richmond Hill.

Upon entering, the wood-floored main space features an L-shaped wood lacquered bar (with 20 draughts including outside ciders and meads) servicing block wood community tables, upper observation deck and fire-pitted back patioed pavilion. Two central chandeliers center the high-celinged wood paneled barn house interior and two TV’s sidle the beer menu above the tap handles.

Displaying its ancient Norse culture, Debellation’s Viking ship mural, walled deer antlers and stacked logs offer interestingly designed Medieval relics to the wood-decked pub.

Owner Dave Goodell’s easygoing fare had a definite European flare on my post-Christmas ’25 journey. I tried all homemade brews except Tree Nail Light Lager.

Well-realized, offbeat peculiarity, Spicy Garlic Pickle, a briny pickled garlic blonde ale, retained a sourly acidic vinegaring for its curious mustard seed, peppercorn and jalapeno subsidies.

An efficient lemony banana-clove onrush secured Mjolnirweizen Hefe, leaving sour apple, dried plantain and mild herbage on its sourdough bottom.

Tobacco-roasted cereal graining embossed Erik The Red Roggenbier, a German rye ale with dewy peat reaching mild pumpernickel-rye finish.

Toasted amber grains and roasted cigarette crisping led Fenair Red Irish Ale, picking up spicy red-orange fruiting and light maple sugaring.

Candy-glazed fruited pale ale, Frigg’s Cran Apple, let honey-spiced red apple sweetness flourish alongside tart cranberry saucing.

Mild juniper berry bittering teased the rye and pilsner malting guarding Finnish farmhouse ale, Berserker Viking Sahti, relegating light herbal spicing.

As for the one dark ale, nutty coffee roast inundated nitrogenated Naglfar Nitro Coffee Stout, placing lightly salted soy graining across dark-roast hops and debittered black malts.