TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA

Just a few miles West of the Atlantic Ocean in the sun-kissed beach town of Tybee Beach, BACK RIVER BREWERY serves stylistically conservative small-batch brews and “casual eats.” Located above a Mexican restaurant, the cozy aquamarine outpost became the islands’ first brewpub, May ’22.

Eight aluminum-chaired wood tables sidle the 15-seat wood lacquered bar. Windowed tanks store the approachable Back River suds.

My wife and I visited late December ’25, downing four welcoming draughts after a day at the beach. However, we ran out of time and missed out on About Lager Time, Blood Moon Rising Gose, I’m So Juicy IPA and Old School Cool East Coast IPA

Dry grassy-hopped herbage draped the lemony blueberry scurry of What Is A Kolsch, a brisk pilsner-malted moderation.

Easygoing Festive Fruits, a tart cranberry-tangerine-induced sour ale, let ancillary white peppered herbage and limey salting contrast its sugary vanilla creaming.

Juicy fruited Bongwater Bay Session IPA placed mild lemony orange peeled grapefruit bittering next to pineapple-candied tartness, tangerine tanginess and herbal spicing atop lightly creamed caramel malts.

Aged in unspecified wine barrels, boozy Just The Trip Tripel corralled tart blackberry, vinous white grape, lemon lime and oaken cherry.