Yazoo Brewing
Yazoo/Calfkiller “The Beacon” Hits Shelves Today
Tennessee isn’t making it easy to be a craft brewer. In fact, taxes per gallon breakdown for craft beer over “college” beer is almost 1/3 more. Thus – The Beacon, a Tennessee High Tax Ale. Yazoo Brewing (Nashville) and Calfkiller (Sparta, TN) created a smoked wheat ale that hits shelves around Nashville today.
Fight the power.
Availability: 750 ml bottles.
Yazoo & Calfkiller’s “The Beacon” Fights Stupid Beer Taxes
It’s a pathetic situation when craft brewers have to fight to change the laws just to exist. In Tennessee, craft brewers are charged more per gallon, then wine or beers from larger, non craft breweries. That is what brings Yazoo Brewing (Nashville, TN) and Calfkiller Brewing (Sparta, TN) together. The Beacon aka A Tennessee High Tax Ale.
Brewed with smoked wheat this unique style knows no limits, but is already guaranteed to have the highest taxes in the nation. Cut the red tape, pop the cap, and enjoy this oppressively refreshing ale!
Style: Wheat Ale (Smoked)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA
Beer Street Journal Video: Inside Yazoo’s Sour Program
Yazoo Brewing Company (Nashville, TN) has begun a full sour/wild beer program. One of the first of it’s kind in the southeast.
Using various red wine barrels, yeast from Cantillon bottles, even old Russian River Brewing barrels, Linus Hall and Brandon Jones (EmbraceTheFunk.com) have quite a few things at work. Beer Street Journal took a trip up to the brewery for more. The south just got funky.
Women In Beer: Brandi Soda, Yazoo Brewing
Meet Brandi Soda, the Taproom Manager & Events Coordinator at Yazoo Brewing Company (Nashville, TN). Brandi has been working at Yazoo for the last 8 years. You will see her frequently at Yazoo events, and of course with that friendly smile as she hands you some of Nashville’s finest in the taproom. She’s also the personality behind the Twitter account @YazooTapRoom. On the left, Yazoo beer lover @WendyMonday.
More Yazoo! Brewery Adds Fermenters [VIDEO]
Adding fermenters to a brewery is tricky business. You’re going to need a crane, concrete, and dry weather. What you see here are 200 barrel fermenters. (That’s 6,200 gallons of per at a time.)
Yazoo Working On More Fortuitous
It was mentioned by Yazoo in May, but didn’t get mentioned on BSJ. Recently, Yazoo Brewing (Nashville, TN) had a batch of Sue (a smoked porter) accidentally go sour. Unintended for sure, but that didn’t stop Yazoo. A sour beer doesn’t doesn’t always mean it’s time for the drain. Yazoo’s brewmaster Linus Hall found the beer to be quite tasty, and sold it as Fortuitous. Of course, he did some research into why Sue went sour. Collier and McKeel Tennessee whiskey barrels have been chosen for this batch.
Release to date to follow… [Yazoo]
Yazoo Hop Project #64 Bottled
Yazoo Brewing’s latest Hop Project #64 has been bottled. The latest IPA features English hops. Specifically – Challenger, Progress, and Target.
The result? Well, the bitterness is very mellow and clean. It has a great spicy aroma, with hints of candy and orange marmalade. I really like it, and it is a great change of gears from #63. After a couple of batches of #64, enough to get it distributed out to all of our distribution area, we’ll be getting some New Zealand hops in for #65.
