How do you get into Blind Pig Tavern?
We have not confirmed it. Blind Pig Tavern is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Blind Pig Tavern
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Sazerac, Ward Eight, and Scofflaw are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Blind Pig Tavern sits
Blind Pig Tavern is in Athens, Georgia, in Clarke County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists six speakeasies and hidden bars in Athens. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Athens.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Blind Pig Tavern are Speakeasy, about 4.2 km away, Oak House Distillery and Speakeasy, about 4.3 km away, and The Blind Pig Tavern, about 7.5 km away.
Georgia holds 41 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Georgia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Georgia
Georgia did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1908, twelve years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Georgia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Georgia.
What the newspapers recorded in Georgia
Searching the Library of Congress run of Georgia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Georgia:
- Americus times-recorder, February 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel, April 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta semi-weekly journal, March 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta tri-weekly journal, December 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Blind Pig Tavern by phone on (706) 208-7979, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 2440 W Broad St, Athens, GA 30606-3428. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Blind Pig Tavern we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a restaurant.