Johnnie Maccracken's

Johnnie Maccracken's 15 Atlanta Street, Marietta, GA 30060. (678)290-6641. Mon-Sat 11am-3am...Open Sunday from 12:30 pm until at least 12pm.
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Lunch & Dinner, Irish Breakfast, Beer Garden & full bar. Authentic Celtic dining, extensive beer list, live music. 21 years old for main bar and family friendly non smoking dining room with separate entrance.

Nice joint! Used to be T's Parkside.
08/06/2026

Nice joint! Used to be T's Parkside.

08/05/2026

Bobby Jones

It took me 4 years to make it but I told the salesman for Clover I'd have a whiskey with Bobby Jones. Well, I finally made good on my promise and took "Diego" with me.

Amazing..Most banana liqueur tastes like those little yellow Runts candies you used to eat as a kid. Artificial, one-not...
08/04/2026

Amazing..

Most banana liqueur tastes like those little yellow Runts candies you used to eat as a kid. Artificial, one-note, and kind of cartoonish.

This one is different.

Tempus Fugit Crème de Banane is made the old way — real ripe bananas, distilled in small batches, natural color from the fruit itself. No artificial flavoring, no neon yellow dye. It tastes like warm banana bread and Bananas Foster in a glass. Deep, caramelized, actual banana.
Once you try it, the cheap stuff just tastes like chemical candy. You won’t want to go back.
It’s the difference between real coffee and that powdered stuff in the vending machine. Same category on paper… not even close in the glass.

I am about to test this out for an Old Fashioned to see what it does to elevate the flavor.

Pizza Experience The pizza in the first photo was my breakfast this morning using a little of this, and a little of that...
08/04/2026

Pizza Experience

The pizza in the first photo was my breakfast this morning using a little of this, and a little of that.

Allow me to explain:

Pizza Sauce-Michael's Brooklyn (visited this year)
Pizza Dough-Publix (the pre rolled is not as good as the one you roll)
Sausage-Local Italian Deli in Dunwoody and it was exceptional
Fresh Mozzarella-nothing special (could do better)
Tomatoes-over ripe but perfecto!
Vidalia Onions-what can I say!

Overall a good pizza...but next experiment will be a cheese pizza from a local joint I like and bring it home and enhance it with these better ingredients.

08/04/2026

The Honi the Circle-Drawer / carob-tree story

Cultures don’t stay pure.

In this segment Johnnie explains Jewish tradition from a story in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ta’anit 23a:

The Irish and Jews borrowed from each other the second they lived next door.

On the Lower East Side and in other New York neighborhoods, Irish and Jews shared the same tenements, sidewalks, schools, and political wards for decades. What happened was not just competition. It was constant exchange.

The Jews brought their own strengths. Intense focus on education, literacy, and long-term planning rubbed off. The idea of planting something that might not pay off for a generation schools, businesses, political networks was already in Irish blood, but living beside people who practiced it with deliberate discipline sharpened it. Jewish humor, storytelling, and argument style mixed with Irish wit and produced a tougher, quicker New York voice that both groups claimed.

Food, music, and daily habits crossed lines too. You saw Irish kids eating Jewish food and Jewish kids picking up Irish turns of phrase. In politics they ended up needing each other. In the streets they sometimes fought. In the long run they both rose higher because they borrowed what the other did well.

That’s how it actually works. People don’t invent everything from scratch. They watch the neighbors who got there a little earlier, take what works, and leave the rest. The ones who refuse to borrow stay stuck. The ones who do it end up changing the city.

Most people buying hard seltzer aren’t looking for the best-tasting one.They want something light, easy, cold, and famil...
08/04/2026

Most people buying hard seltzer aren’t looking for the best-tasting one.

They want something light, easy, cold, and familiar. They’re not sitting there comparing mineral content or finish. They’re grabbing what they already know, what’s on sale, or whatever’s easiest to find. Taste is secondary for a lot of that crowd.

Topo Chico Hard is a perfect example. A lot of us who actually taste these things side by side will tell you it’s cleaner and better than most of the big names. The mineral water base gives it a real edge. But it still sits behind the volume leaders. Why? Because better taste alone doesn’t move the needle the way distribution, marketing, and being the default choice does.

In this category, “good enough and everywhere” beats “noticeably better but less automatic” more often than not. That’s just how it plays out when people are buying by the case for the cooler or the boat.

Coors Banquet is one of the few domestic beers actually growing right now, and it’s not by accident.While Bud Light keep...
08/04/2026

Coors Banquet is one of the few domestic beers actually growing right now, and it’s not by accident.

While Bud Light keeps sliding and the big light beers (Coors Light and Miller Lite included) are soft, Banquet has put together several straight years of volume and share gains. It’s connecting with younger drinkers and Latino consumers better than most of the old-school light brands, and it’s doing it with a simple, no-nonsense identity — Western heritage, working-class roots, and a beer that feels like it has some character without being a craft price.

They’re mainly picking up drinkers who walked away from Bud Light and others who got tired of the same light lager that tastes like nothing. When people want something a step above the ultra-lights but still familiar and easy to drink, Banquet is sitting right there. It’s not exploding the whole category, but in a shrinking domestic beer market, consistent growth like this stands out.

The lesson is the same one we keep seeing: brands that stay true to who they are and who actually buys them tend to hold up better than the ones chasing whatever’s trendy this month.

Look, I’ve been in this business a long time. Bud Light used to be the automatic order the one you didn’t even have to t...
08/04/2026

Look, I’ve been in this business a long time. Bud Light used to be the automatic order the one you didn’t even have to think about. At its peak it was moving around 41 million barrels a year. For a long stretch it was the number-one beer in the country, the one that moved case after case without anybody having to push it.

Then in 2023 they decided to get cute with some influencer deal, and the whole thing blew up on them. Customers walked. Not just a few a whole lot of them. They switched to Modelo, Michelob Ultra, Coors, whatever, and most of them never came back. By 2024 it was down to about 15.8 million barrels. Now the estimates for this year are around 12.7 million. That’s a hard drop, and three years later it still hasn’t recovered. It’s still selling, but it’s not the king anymore. It’s just another beer in the cooler fighting for space.

That’s the simple lesson for anybody running a bar or a brand: don’t forget who actually buys the product every day. You can chase whatever’s trendy, but if you lose the people who’ve been loyal for years, you may never get them back. And once they’re gone, the numbers don’t lie.

Come visit the only Tavern in Cobb County housed in an 1880's former firehouse!
08/04/2026

Come visit the only Tavern in Cobb County housed in an 1880's former firehouse!

08/03/2026

Monday!

Address

15 Atlanta Street SE
Marietta, GA
30060

Opening Hours

Monday 4pm - 1am
Tuesday 3pm - 2am
Wednesday 11am - 2am
Thursday 11am - 2am
Friday 11am - 2am
Saturday 11am - 2am
Sunday 12:30pm - 12am

Telephone

+16782906641

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