Bearded Iris Brewing

Microbrewery in Nashville, Tennessee, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Bearded Iris Brewing

Established in 2016

Contact
101 Van Buren St, Nashville, TN, 37208, United States
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.

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 8
Unmistakably a Bearded Iris beer, with a big juicy hop profile and an utterly opaque yellow-gold color. Nose is big citrus hops, grapefruit and passionfruit and lemon, bright and acidic. Pours the expected cloudy haze, yet lacks any head or lace. Taste starts with a opening salvo of green, dripping Citra hops, a citrus fruit salad with a little pineapple thrown in for good measure, on top of a mildly sweet caramel malt base, maybe some biscuit underneath. Stays citric and strong, almost reaching Berliner Weiss levels of lemony tartness, then gains a minor bitterness on the finish. Texture seems off, almost flat and lifeless, and the unending waves of Citra grow fatiguing before you finish the tallboy. If you like Bearded Iris, you’ll dig it. If you like Bearded Iris but wish they’d expand their repertoire the slightest bit, you might be less enthused.
Tried on 01 May 2017 at 17:46

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 7
Can into a wineglass showing lightly filtered opaque whitish yellow with sparse white foam. The nose shows grapefruit with NE style malts. The palate is medium bodied and well carbonated. Flavors of light grapefruit and peach with a NE style malt backbone. Clean and easy. But these notes are exactly the same as the regular scatterbrain
Tried from Can on 29 Apr 2017 at 03:07

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 7
Can into a wineglass showing lightly filtered opaque whitish yellow with sparse white foam. The nose shows grapefruit with NE style malts. The palate is medium bodied and well carbonated. Flavors of light grapefruit and peach with a NE style malt backbone.
Tried from Can on 28 Apr 2017 at 22:18

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Another Bearded Iris hop spectacular, all grapefruit and lemon and pine with a tart, semisweet berry-like undertone. Nose explodes with citrus, and the pour comes out the brewery’s standard opaque yellow-gold with ample lace. Taste starts immediately with the grapefruit, then slowly gains a slight toasted malt sweetness, grainy and brief, before the lemon zest and pine take over in the middle. Yet the finish is weak, as if all the fruity hop elements vanish in a flash, leaving only a lengthy pinecone fade. (Not the first BI beer to do this, in my opinion.) Texture’s a tad thin and undercarbonated as well. All in all a good Pale Ale, just front-loaded.
Tried on 15 Apr 2017 at 20:50

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Consumed at the April Fools Day DC Ratebeer tasting. Poured a hazy yellow-orange color with a small off-white head. Aroma was tropical citrus notes, floral hop notes. Flavor had some stonefruit, tropical fruits. Really nice.
Tried on 08 Apr 2017 at 10:32

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at the RateBeer DC April Fool’s Tasting. Hazy orange with off-white head. Aromas of stone fruit, citrus, floral notes. Tastes of citrus, floral notes, stone fruit. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Apr 2017 at 00:13

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
From a bottle at the RB DC tasting on April Fool’s Day 2017 -- thanks to solidfunk. Pours a cloudy gold with an off white finish. Flavors of juicy orange and other citrus. Quite good.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Apr 2017 at 08:39

8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
2019 Re-rate. This beer has been completely dialed in on recent batches of cans. Lots of tropical fruit and orange zest on the nose. Spritzy carbonation with good piney bitterness. Bright citrus on the palate and lingering on the finish. More pine. Great stuff. 2018 re-rerate. Multiple cans and bottles. Can from Louisville Beer Store. Pours a hazy gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Big hoppy nose with guava, pungent citrus, white grapefruit and some diesel. Light on the palate with more white grapefruit, guava and diesel notes. Clean and crisp with low perceived bitterness that runs into a lingering fruity finish. Nice to see some breweries doing focusing on the haze outside of the coasts.
Tried from Can on 03 Apr 2017 at 00:14

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
16oz can share courtesy of Torrey. Milky golden body, scant bubbly head. Orangy, citrusy aroma, juicy. Taste brings in a more tropical flavor, decent feel. Lots of dregs at the bottom.
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2017 at 11:05

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
16oz can Torrey. Pours out a hazy cloudy gold topped with a white head. Nose is orange citrus some tropical fruit notes. Taste citrus a little grapefruit pithy bitterness.
Tried from Can on 24 Mar 2017 at 19:29