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!
@Knoxville Brewers Jam-on tap-pours a thin off white head that laces and copper color. Aroma is citrus-lemon/pine hops, some medium malt. Taste is citrus-lemon/pine hops with some bite, sweet medium malt. Good effervescence.
12 oz bottle-pours a retaining off white head that laces and copper color. Aroma is citrus/pine hops, some medium malt. Taste is dry citrus/pine hops with some bite, some medium malt. Thanks stevo for sharing.
@Knoxville Brewers Jam-on tap-pours a rich brown head and dark brown color with red tint. Aroma is ashy/peat-dark malt, northwest hops. Taste is ashy/peat-sweet dark malt, northwest hops. A bit big for me, but good.
Bottle 12fl.oz.Clear medium amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity - berry. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light berry acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20091122]
Clear deep amber with a large beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and bread. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, caramel, sour berries and hints of lacto. Dry finish.
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a small tan head. Aroma is mild phenolic and roasted caramelish. Fruity, light caramelish and hoppy. Fruity flavoured into a mild bitter finish.
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of brentfeesh. Pours a clear deep amber with a lacing beige head. Aroma of caramel, some vinous and oxidized Sherry accents with an underlying vague tartness. A little chocolate also. Hardly any bitterness. 221109
Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of citrus and hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrus fruits and hops, leading to a dry bitter finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
Dark copper body with an average sized tan head. Grapefruit and pine aroma. Light initial bitterness with moderate malt sweetness coming in right behind it.
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of brentfeesh. Pours a cloudy amber with an off-white head. Weird tart and fruity aroma. Medium body, overripe fruit and vitamin C. Dry, tart and astringent finish. Off I’m afraid. 230909