Bearded Iris Brewing
Microbrewery
in
Nashville,
Tennessee,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Bearded Iris Brewing
Established in 2016
Contact
Description
WHEN YOU SIT DOWN WITH A BEER, YOU’RE AFTER SOMETHING. Maybe it’s nuanced layers of flavor, the siren call of a favorite hop, or to test your skill identifying stone fruit tasting notes. Maybe you’re chasing the new or craving the familiar, perhaps you just want to kick back for a drink with friends—and order another of the same. At Bearded Iris, our beers meet you where you are and deliver the experience you seek, whatever it might be, because that’s what we believe makes beer worth drinking. CULTIVATE VARIETY DRIVES US AT BIBCO. (WE’RE NOT KIDDING.) With a menu that skews heavily toward IPAs, DIPAs, and pales, it can appear that we don’t, in fact, cultivate much “variety.” But here’s the thing: we’re not looking to bombard you with a checklist of styles. Instead, we know that each hop varietal and every intentionally selected ingredient contains a multitude of possibilities that can be deliberately unlocked and unleashed, then honed and hemmed in tightly, to construct a pint that’s unapologetically itself, memorably composed, and fun to drink. Every time. Regardless of style. To us, that’s the variety worth cultivating. And that’s what we bring to your table.
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tall can Very clear for BI, yellow with a white head. The aroma has some sweet malt and spicy hops. Very nice beer although hardly your expected festbier. A bit hoppier than a fest, more in line with one of the crisper German styles. But there's some nice malt sweetness in there and overall it's a tasty beer.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Dec 2017
at 17:03
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bit of letdown for a Double Homestyle remix. Fairly mellow and sweet for a DIPA, restrained notes of lemon drop and tangerine and grapefruit against toasted biscuit malt and an unassuming hop bitterness on the finish. Some woodsy, herbal streaks pop up towards the middle, but otherwise this pint kinda seems dull. Pours a mildly hazed gold with a brief white head and modest lacing. Lemon drops, grapefruit, and grain on the nose. Good sparkly texture. Not bad, but it doesn’t live up to other Double Homestyles.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2017
at 19:27
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tall can. Cloudy medium yellow with a frothy white head. Grapefruit citrus hop aroma. The flavor is almost like grapefruit juice and beer. Bitter runs start to finish. Juicy.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Dec 2017
at 16:44
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft at the source. Pours a hazy mango colored gold with a creamy white head that hangs around. Tangerine, durian and passion fruit on the nose. Lots of passion fruit on the palate. Papaya, coconut and banana also there. Wow, a real tropical juice bobm. Clean and crisp, alcohol hidden. Really smooth.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2017
at 10:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the source. Pours a hazy, orangish gold with a finger of creamy foam that lingers. Hop juice nose, citrus and grass...a touch of wild strawberry. Clean and crisp on the palate with a slight hop burn. Medium to low bitterness on the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2017
at 10:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Not a bad NEIPA, juicy with heavy doses of pineapple and banana followed up by green pepper and woodsy-herbal undertones. Malts add a backbone of toasted bread and hay, while the finish grows piney and bitter, with a modest bitterness that lingers slightly longer than most BI offerings. Seems a bit understated, especially with the malts, but still drinkable as hell. Pours a opaque yellow-gold with a modest white head and slight lacing. Grapefruit, pineapple, hay, and wet grain on the nose. Texture's a tad thin but manageable. Pretty standard BI beer.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2017
at 19:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A lot to like with the Nelson Sauvin DDH edition of Attention Please!. Lovely toast and caramel from the malts provide a solid base for the tropical-citrus hops, with loads of lemon, orange, and grapefruit giving way to the recognizable white grape and tart berry notes coming off the Nelson Sauvins. Dries out somewhat on the back end, with hints of pine and pepper showing up alongside a gentle lingering citrus note. Pours a cloudy orange-gold with a thin but lasting white head and moderate lacing. Lemon, chardonnay, grain, and a little booze on the nose. Soft, creamy feel has a little alcohol warmth--typical of Bearded Iris DIPAs--but otherwise drinkable as hell. Tasty pint.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2017
at 18:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Odd IPA, an astringent tropical salad with a strange yeastiness and tons of banana. Juicy as hell, loads of lemon, grapefruit, peaches, and oh so many bananas, yet the malts add a toasted cracker backbone coupled with a tart yeasty undercurrent that doesn't quite jibe with the rest of the pint. Finishes with a vein of alcohol and banana, with the fruit lingering long into the fade. No bitterness, though. Pours a milky yellow with a thin white head and moderate lacing. Nice mix of citrus and grain on the nose. Texture seems a tad watery, and there's an unexpected booziness for a 6% beer. Just an all-around weird pint.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2017
at 15:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Massive fruity-sweet nose, full of berries and citrus and candy. Pours a very hazy yellow-gold with a brief white head and plenty of lacing. Taste starts with a burst of lemondrops, strawberries, bubblegum, and honeydew, then develops a mild toasted grain backbone with hints of caramel, then abruptly grows piney and a tad boozy on the back. Finish is pretty bare, lacking much-needed bitterness or any aggressive hop notes to carry over into the fade. Which, again, is the stereotypical BI profile: huge fruity hop explosion on the front, not much of anything on the back. Slick and easy texture makes for an easy sipper, but on the whole seems incomplete.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Nov 2017
at 18:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from Bearded Iris. Pours a clearish, deep gold with a full finger of foam that lingers, then dissipates. Big, bright Citra focused nose with white grapefruit, durian, pineapple and dank. Dank and green pineapple on the palate. Bitter with some green tea notes as well. --- Beer merged from original tick of Double Homestyle DDH W/ Citra on 11 Nov 2017 at 19:02 - Score: 7. Original review text: Big citrus-forward nose, durian, pineapple and dank. Dank and green pineapple on the palate. Bitter with some sharp green tea notes.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Nov 2017
at 23:57