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.
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Craft Brewed. Pours a clear gold with a finger of foam. Big candied pineapple and tangerine aromas on the nose. Limeade as it warms up a bit. Slightly boozy at first, but as it warms it mellows a bit. Very clean and crisp with low bitterness. Quite a nice drop.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2017
at 22:45
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can from the brewery. Pours a clearish deep gold to amber with a finger of foam on top. Big peach and grapefruit nose, a touch of caramel. Creamy on the palate with pine and alcohol. The alcohol gets hidden a bit more as it warms. Sweet finish with low bitterness...like a baby Hopslam.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2017
at 01:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Crowler shared. Thanks Spoon! Pours a clear gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Peach, gummy bears and white grapefruit aromas. Light body with a ton of apricot on the palate. Crushable with low bitterness. Lots of peach shines through. A very nice clean almost west coast style from Bearded Iris. Rock solid!
Tried
on 18 May 2017
at 01:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Fully aware my love for this beer might owe entirely to suffering through the Trouble Brewing Sampler earlier this evening, but holy hell did I need some Bearded Iris. Bright, citric, funky, pungent...hops as prominent as any other beer from the brewery, yet balanced by biscuit-caramel malts and a clingy pinecone fade. Bitter, as it should be. Nice texture, nice looks, and the nose is pure hop juice. Good. Appreciated. It’s been a rough night.
Tried
on 17 May 2017
at 22:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tall can. Hazy gold with a moderate whiten head. The aroma has citrus and some pineapple. The flavor is juicy malts with a fruity bitterness. Good balance for a IIPA. Not too sweet, not too heavy.
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2017
at 18:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tall can. Mostly clear medium yellow with a tall white head. Sweet, spicy aroma The flavor is crisp light bitterness, a touch of grain. I’m not sure this follows "style guidelines" for a Pils, but it’s a tasty beer.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2017
at 18:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can thanks to Torrey. Pours out a horrible hazy mess golden topped with a white head. Nose is melons tropical fruit notes some booze. Taste is more of the tropical fruit some booze and a light malt sweetness.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2017
at 16:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Massive lemon-grapefruit nose, a little bread underneath. Pours an opaque gold, tons of particulate swirling underneath a fleeting white head with modest lace. Taste is a front-and-center hop assault, citric and herbal and pungent, grapefruit and pine mixed with a very mild bready malt base. Bitterness picks up on the finish, but an unexpected boozy note pops up on the fade. Gains a needed sweetness as it warms, but still feels a little too front-loaded.
Tried
on 12 May 2017
at 19:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Kinda exactly how I imagined a Bearded Iris pils would taste: just like everything else they brew, only with a mild variation in the yeast and malting. Giant juicy citra hops punch you in the face, followed by a mild grainy pilsner malt brightness coupled with a lingering bitter hoppy back end. Lemonade with crackers on top of a floral fade. Pours a hazed gold, but the head and lace are fleeting. Nose is strange, yeast more than anything with a citric hop undercurrent. Good texture. As pale ale-ish as a pils can be. Eh.
Tried
from Can
on 08 May 2017
at 22:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Can, thanks Solidfunk! Pours quite hazy orange, large off-white head that dissipates slowly leaving good lacing. Aroma is oranges and dank grass, perhaps grapefruit. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter, juicy and dank. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. A bit sweeter than my preference, but good.
Tried
from Can
on 05 May 2017
at 15:48