Yazoo Brewing Company
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| Yazoo Brewing Company | |
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| Yazoo Brewing Company is housed in the eastern end of the Marathon Motor Works building. | |
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee United States |
| Owner(s) | Linus Hall |
| Year opened | 2003 |
| Active beers | |
| Dos Perros Ale | Brown Ale |
| ESB | Extra Special Bitter |
| Hefeweizen | Hefeweizen |
| Onward Stout | Stout |
| Pale Ale | Pale Ale |
| Sly Rye Porter | Porter |
Yazoo Brewing Company, a Nashville, TN brewery, was founded in 2003 by Brewmaster Linus Hall. The brewery is located in what was once the Marathon Motor Works factory building in downtown Nashville.
Linus Hall and his wife Lila are both from Mississippi, 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 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, received a craftbrewing degree from the American Brewers Guild in California and completed an internship at the Brooklyn Brewery 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.
[edit] Awards
- The Yazoo Hefeweizen won the gold medal in the South German-Style Hefeweizen/Hefeweissbier category at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival.
- Best Microbrewery, 2005 Best of Nashville, Nashville Scene.
- Best Local Beer, Yazoo Pale Ale, 2006 Best of Nashville, Nashville Scene.
- Best Underground Happy Hour, Yazoo Tap Room, 2007 Best of Nashville Nashville Scene.
[edit] The name
The name Yazoo is taken from the Yazoo River, which runs through Hall’s hometown Vicksburg, MS.
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