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.
(2936)

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.

They say good luck comes around when you least expect it. Especially since we had a certified "Practitioner of Black M...
09/11/2026

They say good luck comes around when you least expect it. Especially since we had a certified "Practitioner of Black Magic" that showed up at the Bar the other day.

This is what she said that we laughed off: "I place a plague upon your house and a rot upon your very soul! From this second forward, you will never know peace in your own establishment! May your hands shake every time you try to count a till, and may every dollar you make slide right through your fingers like water! I curse you to always hear the ringing of a phone that never answers, and to feel the sting of a thousand unseen eyes watching your every mistake! You will watch everything you build turn to dust, and you will remember MY face when it all comes crashing down around you!"

That didn't really both me, sounds pretty typical of being in this business.

Thank goodness I'm flush now!

A letter showed up this morning from Canada and I have officially become a millionaire without buying a single scratch-off.

Some attorney named Howard — Sarnia, Ontario, which I am told is a real place — has been searching the whole earth for heirs to a Mrs. Maria Leake. Stockbroker. Retired CPA. Died of Covid five years ago. Left a payable-on-death account in the amount of ten million, eight hundred thousand, and twenty dollars.

I have already asked Kathryn to measure the kitchen for a proper espresso machine and I may finally put a real roof on the single-wide. If anybody needs a short-term loan, form a line. I expect to be liquid by Halloween.

Thirty business days, he said.

I have waited longer for my General Wholesale order.

Tiger Stadium set a concession record while waiting out the lightning delay.LSU reported $2.3 million in net main-conc...
09/10/2026

Tiger Stadium set a concession record while waiting out the lightning delay.

LSU reported $2.3 million in net main-concourse concession sales vs Clemson

Michelob Ultra led the night with 41,138 cans sold
"Tiger Water" was next at 33,549 units

Chick-fil-A sold 9,745 sandwiches
Then LSU won 51-10

Windows On The WorldThursday Whiskey TastingTonight I thought I would prepare the most celebrated dish served at the fam...
09/10/2026

Windows On The World

Thursday Whiskey Tasting

Tonight I thought I would prepare the most celebrated dish served at the famous restaurant that sat on the 106th and 107th floor of the World Trade Center. It's a short rib braised in dark beer.

Here is a story to go along:

A few years out of college I was working for a Japanese company and I was traveling from Atlanta to Westchester County for a sales meeting. I had just met Kathy and we flew up the weekend before. Kathy is a Georgia native and was born in East Atlanta.

I made dinner reservations at "Windows on the World" and I had been there twice before and nothing said New York more that that elevator ride to a view that was unbelievable. For people familiar with New York experience this was called "Pre Giuliani New York" which on ground level was very rough and crime ridden. however, when you were looking out over New York from the top of "The Towers" is was mind boggling and a source of pride!

Before Giuliani took office in 1994, New York was still near its modern crime peak: 2,245 murders in 1990, 1,946 in 1993, and about 100,000 robberies a year, with the subway and open-air drug markets feeling out of control. After he took office those numbers collapsed — murders to the mid-600s by the end of his term, robberies and street crime cut by more than half. That record later got buried under the controversies that followed him out of City Hall, so the crime drop is now argued over as much as it is remembered.

No matter what, Giuliani was a local legend in New York for the 8 years he was Mayor. Pre-Giuliani I was robbed in a Subway Restaurant across from Bryant Park and when I chased the Robber into Lord & Taylor on 5th Avenue bit a single person tried to help. Bryant Park today is a show piece.

Tonight, in the eve of the 25th Anniversary of 9-11, I remember a restaurant, and Chef Lomonaco. On the morning of 9/11, Lomonaco arrived at the World Trade Center around 8:15 a.m. Instead of taking the elevator straight up to the restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors, he made a sudden decision to stop at a LensCrafters in the ground-floor concourse to have a scratched lens on his glasses repaired. He was in the exam room when the first plane struck the North Tower. Because he was on the ground level, he was safely evacuated from the building.

Tragically, 79 of his staff members and 91 restaurant guests who were upstairs for a breakfast conference were killed in the attack, as everyone above the impact zone was trapped.

In my last visit to New York I visited Michael Lomonaco's Brasserie Cognac Américain at 461 Fifth Avenue (40th Street), overlooking the New York Public Library and Bryant Park. He is chef-directeur.

3 FloydsVery soon a beer of the likes never seen in these parts will descend into the only Beer Bar in Cobb that carries...
09/09/2026

3 Floyds

Very soon a beer of the likes never seen in these parts will descend into the only Beer Bar in Cobb that carries the highest ranked beers in the USA and Europe.

Please let us welcome 3 Floyds which I just pre ordered on draft.

So next time you come to the Marietta Square you will find the best real German Octoberfest, the best Belgiums, and the best domestic Craft Beer.

Edit: "A good many of you have assumed that we were picking on a homeless person, we have no knowledge of her housing...
09/09/2026

Edit: "A good many of you have assumed that we were picking on a homeless person, we have no knowledge of her housing situation, or her mental health issues as we are not trained in this area. After 5 hours of our staff being polite and her refusing help on any kind; "I do not want anything, I will not order anything, and I will not move!" Suddenly after 5 hours she pulls out her IPhone and calls an Uber. We ask this provoking question, should the police or someone in government be available to handle the "resources" you all reference which probably do not exist?"

This is the first time in 25 plus years that MPD would not help us with a person who is homesteading one of our front tables. They said there is nothing they can do as it's public property.

She has been parked here for 4-5 hours and police also say we can't remove her either.

For the record, we own the tables, chairs, and pay for an expensive license and insurance policy with The City to have exclusive use of these tables.

Anyone know of a new ordinance?

Note:

Marietta ordinances that already apply:

Outdoor café / encroachment permit
Marietta requires an Encroachment Permit for Outdoor Cafés. You must carry $1 million liability insurance naming the City as additional insured, sign a release and indemnity, keep a 4-foot clear pedestrian path, and be a restaurant that gets more than 50% of revenue from prepared food. Tables and chairs must be black metal and are your property, not the City’s. 

The permit is an authorization to occupy a slice of the public right-of-way with your furniture. It is not a grant of fee title to the sidewalk itself. That is why officers often default to “public property.”

Private property

Marietta also makes it unlawful for anyone other than the owner, leaseholder, or rightful occupant to camp, sleep, reside, store personal property, or lie upon private property without permission. Your tables and chairs are private personal property even when they sit on the sidewalk under permit. Hours of occupation plus bags covering the table is the kind of conduct that ordinance targets.

Made these as a test recipe today.
09/08/2026

Made these as a test recipe today.

Full Time Bartender WantedWe ran an ad last week and only 1 or 2 persons were qualified based on what we are looking for...
09/08/2026

Full Time Bartender Wanted

We ran an ad last week and only 1 or 2 persons were qualified based on what we are looking for.

The MacCracken's bartender job is a 4 day a week job under 40 hours with a set schedule and never a double. This gives you a chance to plan your life and give you a stable work schedule kind of unknown in our business. But it's an every Friday and Saturday and holidays. (Over 70% of the previous applicants had another job or even a day job they did not want to leave which doesn't work).

When we interview we ask you what you make so we can give you a better money making opportunity. We show you your shifts and typical credit card tips on our POS and I sometimes ask you to bring your W-2 from last job which should show at least your credit card tips so we can prove you will make more...that way you will not be disappointed. Plus talk is cheap.

During the interview you are questioned on craft beer and whiskey and this is a tough one because most of the applicants tend to be weak in this area.

Stamina. We recently hired someone and they just told me they cannot handle 3 days a week because the job is too demanding. So unless you have worked till 3-4 am please consider this takes a tremendous effort especially if you smoke and are out of shape.

Also, the Marietta Square is changing which means gentrified and these people who are older love to "talk" with bartenders and even socialize with you, so you must have adult communication skills.

I am still posting until we find the right person, send me either an IM with a resume or text my phone at 404-849-2876 but please do not call me.

I found this online from a Brewer Owner in another state that filed for bankruptcy who, in his post explained what happe...
09/07/2026

I found this online from a Brewer Owner in another state that filed for bankruptcy who, in his post explained what happened to Craft Beer. But he did say that he was the guy who cared and the people quit showing up.

"They bought the building before they bought a book.

The warehouse had brick, river light, and a loading dock that photographed well. Richard liked the bones. Claire liked the windows. Neither had set foot in a working brewery.

They were not beer people. At parties Richard set his glass down after two sips. Claire drank wine with a story attached. Once or twice a summer, after tennis, they split a Michelob Ultra because it was cold and asked nothing of them.

The idea came at dinner with people who already owned things. Craft beer was culture. Our town needed a destination. By dessert they had a name: Riverlight. By Tuesday they had a designer.

They hired Stephan, who had brewed in Bavaria and then in Vermont, where a lager took six weeks. He asked what they drank.

“Occasional Ultra,” Richard said. “Keeps things simple.” Stephan waited for the joke. There wasn’t one.

He asked for time and cold tanks. They approved a mezzanine and a chandelier.

Opening night looked perfect. Club friends praised the room. Beer people tasted the Helles and chose kindness.

“Is this the light one?” Richard asked, holding his Pils like it might stain.
“That’s the Pils.”
“Tastes present,” he said.
After the speeches they found two Ultras in the office fridge and drank them on the dock.
“To us,” Claire said.

Behind them, Stephan was explaining why the lager had sat a month in the cellar. The tanks were doing the work the owners would never quite understand.

Riverlight did fine. The space booked. Stephan brewed as if the building belonged to the beer.
On Tuesdays Richard still stopped by, sipped the house lager, nodded, and finished an Ultra at the Club. He told friends they were in the beer business.

They owned the lights, the river, and the name on the door. Richard and Claire also thought about this being a buyout from InBev.

The beer, as usual, stayed out of their way.

"MacCracken's to remove roller hot dog grill but keep popular snacks."That was what I said to a pretentious lady who own...
09/07/2026

"MacCracken's to remove roller hot dog grill but keep popular snacks."

That was what I said to a pretentious lady who owns a business on The Square when she was surprised we sold food!

Almost German Beer made the old fashioned way:I hunted up a list of German style beer made here in the USA and I'll show...
09/07/2026

Almost German Beer made the old fashioned way:

I hunted up a list of German style beer made here in the USA and I'll show you the list and only one is distributed in Atlanta, Jack's Abbey.

This is the list:

U.S. lagers that are the exception

These are the ones people name when they want an American beer that actually tastes like the style:

• Bierstadt Lagerhaus (Denver) — Slow Pour Pils. German brewhouse, long process, many consider it the U.S. gold standard.
• von Trapp Brewing (Stowe, VT) — Award-winning Helles. German malt, noble hops, proper step mash, no gimmicks.
• Live Oak (Austin) — Pill and Hefe that stand up to the imports. Old-school German-style house.
• Jack’s Abby (Framingham, MA) — Lager-only brewery. House Lager / Post Shift Pils when you want a serious pale lager.
• KC Bier Co. (Kansas City) — Built around German malt and hops. Helles and Pils done as daily beer, not a seasonal.
• Dovetail (Chicago) — Traditional methods, long lagering, Czech and German lean.
• Notch (Salem, MA) — Obsessed with Czech/German process, including decoction and proper cellar time.
• Heater Allen (McMinnville, OR) — Small lager specialist. Quiet, correct, no flash.
• Altstadt (Fredericksburg, TX) — German-style focused; their Helles has the medals to back it up.
• Urban Chestnut (St. Louis) — German-trained brewing. Zwickel and classic lagers.
• Schilling (Littleton, NH) and pFriem (Hood River, OR) — Especially strong on Czech-leaning pale lagers.
• Human Robot (Philadelphia) — Decoction Pils that actually tastes decocted.

We will purchase a keg of Jack's Abbey and see if "you" support it.

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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