Yazoo Brewing Company started from a homebrewer’s dream – Linus Hall’s love for making (and drinking) craft beer soon led him to open Nashville’s first production brewery since Prohibition. We opened our doors in October 2003 in the historic Marathon Motor Works building, and started by self-distributing kegs of Pale Ale, Dos Perros, Spring Wheat, and Onward Stout to local bars and restaurants, and we fortunately gained an enthusiastic local following. We quickly replaced the Spring Wheat with the now popular and award-winning Hefeweizen, and we started bottling our beer in 2005. Other local favorites like the Sly Rye Porter and our Hop Project IPA rounded out the line-up of beers. In 2009, Yazoo managed to brew Tennessee’s first ever legal high-gravity ale, SUE, our smoked porter and homage to the South’s proclivity to smoke all kinds of foods. In 2010, Yazoo moved to The Gulch, now one of Nashville’s most active neighborhoods. This allowed us to add a new 40-barrel brewhouse and room to produce more beer, which helped build our year-round lineup to 10!
In the summer of 2012 Yazoo began a series of sour and wild beers with local brewer/writer Brandon Jones called the Embrace The Funk series. Titled with Brandon’s popular sour beer website, this line of Yazoo beers explores the many wonderful beers that can be produced with wild yeasts, souring microbes and different wooden casks.
In December 2012 our Brewmaster Linus and “Wrangler of Funk” Brandon released the first beer in the series named “Wild Child”. Since then the “Embrace The Funk” series has been a staple in the Yazoo Taproom with special rotating offerings. Our ETF beers have been served at SAVOR in New York, “What The Funk” in Denver and on January 26th, 2014 the first bottles of ETF “Deux Rouges” were released (and sold out in 2 hours). Linus and Brandon are constantly creating new beers and different barrel variations for the Embrace The Funk series. The beers are mostly taproom exclusives so your best bet to enjoy their creations is to stop by soon!
We continued to grow enough that in early 2018, Linus Hall announced plans to move the Taproom and Brewery to a brand new 6.5 acre campus north of downtown – but not until Summer/Fall 2019!
Yazoo continues to be an independently owned and operated brewery – Linus and Lila Hall maintain 100% ownership and direction of the brewery, and you can frequently find Linus tinkering with something in the production facility 5-7 days a week!
Bottle from beergium. no ABV on label, blank batch number field, no produced or best by date. However, chancellor grapes clearly stated. surprisingly mild aroma with a faint note of fresh grapes and cucumber, sweet undefined fruit notes. Aroma reminds me of ordinary beer with some added fruit flavoring. Flavor is very funky, leather, fainter fruits flavor, tastes a bit aged. It's much more a fruit beer than a wild beer by taste.
bottle. Aroma of Belgian yeast, leather and funk, very well composed, a lot of yeast, even some dough, but absurdly beatilfully perfectly balanced by leather and tartness and sourness. this feels SO belgian. way ace aroma. i might perhaps get coriander and orange peel, could also be yeast artifacts. Flavor is smooth and balanced sour, very well grounded in yeast and malts based flavors, nicely sour but not overly sour, pretty well balanced. faint leather. good stuff. GREAT beer.
bottle. amber brown, small disappearing light brown head. tart and woody wild ale aroma with some fruity sweeter notes to balance the tartness from yeasts, it all builds up to a very complex slightly woody slightly fruity quite wild aleish but also quite rounded experience, almost also a bit sweet malty. even marzipan. flavor is extremely super sour and extremely super tart, most vineger is WAY sweeter than this, the most sour beer i've had for a while, given the aroma i'm a lot surprised, alc. is very well hidden, the sourness is extreme but very pleasant and not at all phenolic as it often can be. the sweeter notes are still in play but very faint, citrussy vinegar sourness is in force big time. if this should remind me of anything, it might be girardin black, it's as sour as a really really sour gueuze.
From Backlog. Can, from Total Wine, Brentwood, Tn. Hazy yellow/ orange with white head. Malts, hops, yeast, Citrus, Tropical, Fruity, sweetness, some bitterness.
12oz can. Really nice Brown Ale. Solid malt depth, pleasant hop balance. Drinkable, but with lots of flavor. Kind of a blast from the past. Great malt tone reminds me of English Dark Ales. Good stuff.