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!
12 ounce bottle from The Libation Station in Johnson City, TN. Bottled the third week of January, let’s hope that’s 2010. Pours a hazy pale amber color with a thin head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of pale bready malts, herbal hops and a bit of spice. The taste is citrus and herbal hops with pale malts in the background. Rather tart throughout. Medium bodied.
12 ounce bottle from The Libation Station in Johnson City, TN. Pours a dark brown color with a thin tan head. Fair head retention and decent lacing. Aroma of earthy, citrus hops, caramel, nuts and chocolate. Taste is.... HA!!!!! I opened the wrong bottle! No matter I’m wondering how the hell this is an APA. OK... copying this over to the RIGHT beer. Which is this one you’re looking at here. OK, so my aroma and appearance notes are already above. The taste is tart stone fruit and berry notes along with some nutty notes and a faint chocolate note. Medium bodied. Decent beer, though the tartness in the taste seems a tad bit not right.
Bottle thanks to one of my former roomates. Pours with an off-white head and deep brown body. Aroma of raisin, caramel, leather, chocolate. Taste is wheat, nutty, dry, caramel. Lively bubbles, dry finish
Bottle thanks to travita. Pours with a small, off-white head over a hazy golden body. Aroma is fruity, hops, suntan lotion and chamomile. Bitter, fruity and dry flavors. Hop profile is surprisingly sedated. Lightish carbonation.
Pours clear dark copper under a short-lived white head. The aroma is light citrus and pine. The flavor is lightly bitter and smooth. Light bodied and easy drinker. Pleasant, if not over the top.
Black opaque pour that throws up a creamy tan head. Smoky roast malt aroma. Roasty with lots of nice smoked malt notes. One of the best smoked beers I can remember drinking in a long time.
@RichmondX Gathering Thanks decaturstevo-growler-pours a rich light tan head and gold color. Aroma is pine/lemon hops, some (cascade/simcoe) light/medium malt. Taste is pine/lemon hops, some (cascade/simcoe) light/medium malt. Dry.
@RichmondX Gathering Thanks decaturstevo-12oz bottle-pours an off white head and amber color. Aroma is resin/herbal, some medium malt-caramel. Taste is peppermint/resin/lemon hops, some medium malt-caramel. Tingly on tongue.
@RichmondX Gathering Thanks decaturstevo-12oz bottle-pours a thin light tan head and hazy amber color. Aroma is resin/herbal/lemon hops, medium malt-bready. Taste is resin/herbal/lemon hops bite, medium malt-bready.
Growler at the 10th Richmond RateBeer Gathering courtesy of decaturstevo on 01/16/2010. Fairly clear copper body with a medium frothy off-white head. Sweet floral, citrus, and light resiny hop aroma. Sweet resiny flavor with a floral background. Medium body with moderately high carbonation.