Yazoo Brewing Company, a Nashville, TN brewery

Brewery

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, was founded in 2003 by Brewmaster Linus Hall. The brewery was located in what was once the Marathon Motor Works

Marathon Motor Works

Marathon Motor Works was an early automobile manufacturer, based in Tennessee. It grew out of an earlier company called Southern Engine and Boiler Works, founded in 1889, which made industrial engines and boilers in Jackson. As such, the firm had metal-working and powerplant experience which could...

 factory building in downtown Nashville, but moved to The Gulch

The Gulch

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 in March, 2010. The new brewery features an expanded taproom with 18 taps and a patio for outdoor seating.

Linus Hall and his wife Lila are both from Mississippi

Mississippi

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, and moved to Nashville in 1996. Linus had been home brewing since his college days but after years of perfecting his signature ale styles, testing them out on family and friends, he decided to open his own brewery. Hall earned his MBA

Master of Business Administration

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 from Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

 in Nashville, received a craftbrewing degree from the American Brewers Guild in California and completed an internship at the Brooklyn Brewery

Brooklyn Brewery

Brooklyn Brewery was started in 1987 by former Associated Press correspondent Steve Hindy and former Chemical Bank lending officer Tom Potter. Hindy learned to brew beer during a six year stay in various Middle Eastern nations such as Saudi Arabia and Syria, where possession and consumption of...

 in Brooklyn, New York in 2001 under brewmaster Garrett Oliver. He quit a successful engineering job and with a new baby on the way, secured a location, scoured the country for brewing equipment and almost single-handedly built the brewery.

Since opening in 2003 Yazoo brews have become popular beers, favorites of local Nashvillians and sought out by craft brewing loyalists all over the world.

Awards

• The Yazoo Hefeweizen won the gold medal in the South German-Style Hefeweizen/Hefeweissbier category at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival
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• Best Microbrewery, 2005 Best of Nashville, Nashville Scene
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• Best Local Beer, Yazoo Pale Ale, 2006 Best of Nashville, Nashville Scene
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• Best Underground Happy Hour, Yazoo Tap Room, 2007 Best of Nashville Nashville Scene
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The Name

The name Yazoo is taken from the Yazoo River, which runs through Hall’s hometown Vicksburg, MS.

Bottled Beers

• Pale Ale
• Dos Perros
• Hefeweizen
• Hop Project (ongoing series of IPA's)
• Sue
• Sly Rye Porter

The brewery also releases seasonal beers time to time that are bottled.

Growlers

Beer lovers can fill their Yazoo growlers at the brewery.

At the brewery itself they offer some of their standards but they will also have beers that you can only get there, and these rotate.