Praise be to my homie Bart of Esperanza ATL for sending me this lovely package of ESP ATL goodies! If you don’t mind I’d like to share what he and his gracious crew sent me. I’ve had the stuff for a while but I wanted to wait until I got the new site up and running before I showed y’all the goods. A gift this nice needs to be shown of in new digs!

If you’ve been reading this site for a while, the name “ESPERANZA ATLANTA” should not be completely foreign to you as I’ve written about the brand many times. Including the time ESP ATL’s famous foam fingers graced an Atlanta Hawks email blast for NBA playoff tickets this past year. I’m proud to say that after drooling over these magnificent accessories, I finally have one of my own. In fact, Bart was kind enough to also send me the special edition “ATL NEVER DIES” pair they did for Halloween!

They also bestowed ya boy with a couple tees. The inspiration behind their “Intimidator” tee should be easily recognized by any chicken fried Southerner worth their salt! Dope work as always, fellas.

By the way they sent me a Womens tee too. Size Medium. Wondering aloud what I should do with it…HMMMM…

THIS JOINT RIGHT HERE THOUGH!!! (if you’re wondering why I’m so excited about this graphic, please refer to my Twitter profile.)

By the way, each tee shirt came in its own brown paper bag–screenprinted with some good ol’ hospitality!

I’m blessed to have been deemed worthy of gifts and tokens of appreciation by many brands but this next item was definitely a first–a complimentary growlette! ESP ATL designed this for Atlanta based craft beer market, Hop City and it’s just as awesome in person as it is online. I will NOT forget to pack this on my next trip to the A, please believe me!

And while we’re talking about first, how about this beaut’?

The 3rd edition of Red Brick Brewing’s Brick Mason series, “Vanilla Gorillia” beer. This super duper limited beverage is brewed in Georgia & made using Smoked vanilla beans, cherry wood smoked malts by Fox Brothers BBQ of Atlanta, and a little barrel aging in Tennessee whiskey barrels to give this one of the most unique taste ever! I would share but they only sent me two bottles so…ya know…

I just want to thank Bart for sending these to me. I appreciate it more than y’all could ever realize! Make sure you visit their newly designed website, check out their online portfolio, and follow them on Twitter.