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 fl oz bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours cloudy dark orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is orange fruity and light flat hoppy. Sweet and orange fruity hops flavoured. Light sticky mouthfeel. Bitter and dry hoppy flavoured finish.
On tap at 2009 Brewgrass Festival in Asheville NC. Clear dark yellow with a lasting off-white head. A big improvement over #20! Lots of piney hop aroma in this. Nice firm resiny bitterness that provides what was expected from the aroma. Enough alt to balance, yet squarely a hop forward IPA.
Pours a dark gold with a good off-white head. Hop based aroma. The flavor of this one is harsh hop bitterness. This needs more malt to balance and a bit less bittering hops.
Slightly hazy dark gold with a tall, frothy , 3-dimensional off-white head. Fresh citrus hops aroma. The citrus forward flavor has lots of fresh grapefruit aspects.
Bottle thanks to cavie. Pours with a hazy golden body and a fading white head. Aroma of tea, caramel, hops and hay. Taste is grassy and lightly skunky with some hay. Dry mouthfeel with medium carbonation.
Pours a hazy deep golden yellow with a fleeting white head. Sweet candy malt, fruity aroma. Lightly sweet yet not overly complex. Somewhat middle of the road for the style, but a beer that is well done and it is certainly nice to see the effort from a local brewer.
@Noogfest High5 Thanks butters-22oz bottle-pours a white ring for a head and hazy gold color. Aroma is sweet citrus-lemon. Taste is sweet citrus-lemon with some light bite, secondary light malt. Dryish finish. Light/medium body.
Pours clear gold with tiny white head. The aroma has malts, biscuit, citrus and more malts. Nice muted citrus aroma with fun malty notes. The taste has a modest pulse of citrus to start. It then moves quickly onto tasty malts, biscuit and mild roastiness. It ends with a moderate level of increasing citrus hop bitterness. Pretty full flavored and malty for a pale but also pretty darn enjoyable too.
courtesy of fishingnet. pours light golden, thin white head. Aroma and taste, floral hops, with light malty undertone and grains. Easy drink, too one dimensional.
Thanks to Butters for this bottle. Slightly hazy deep reddish orange with a tall lasting off-white head. Aroma of fresh grapefruit. The flavor has a bitterness that build all the way to the finish with a firm malt support. I really liked this one.