8 Breweries to Visit in and Around Nashville

Music City is full of craft breweries with pours for every type of beer geek.

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Music City is full of craft breweries with pours for every type of beer geek. Check out these eight spots to try a new brew with friends. 

Bearded Iris Brewing

The menu skews heavily toward pales, IPA's, and DIPA's, including Homestyle, the brew that started it all. This IPA (India Pale Ale) is a staple of the brewery and, like most of their hoppy beers, focuses on the fruit and fragrance of the hops. beardedirisbrewing.com

Southern Grist Brewing Co.

This brewery specializes in small-batch and experimental brews that frequently come and go. Quirky beers with names like Marshmallow Tropical Kiwi Hill – brewed with lactose, heaps of marshmallows, passion fruit, pineapple, and kiwi – plus others like Smith & Lentz Pizza Palace Pilsner and Off the Ooskies make up part of the list. southerngristbrewing.com

The Black Abbey Brewing Company 

Step inside the monastery-inspired setup – Fellowship Hall (their brewery tasting room) – for a Belgian-style beer. Check their website before swinging by to see which year-round, seasonal, and limited edition beers are currently on tap. blackabbeybrewing.com

Yazoo 

A Nashville original, Yazoo runs the gamut of styles with a little something for everybody: their own line of sours and wild ales, IPA's and more, they've got it all. Yazoo also offers limited edition brews, like a previous collaboration with Goo Goo Cluster to create the Goo Goo Ale. yazoobrew.com

TailGate Brewery

The twenty-thousand-square-foot facility in West Nashville includes more than just a tasting room... all tastebuds are covered here. Check out the outdoor bar, craft pizza kitchen, slice shop, and ice cream shop operated by Sweet and Three. The Music Row taproom, which opened in 2016, is home to TailGate Cider Co., the first craft cidery in Nashville. tailgatebeer.com

Jackalope Brewing Company

Jackalope Brewing Company’s taproom and brewery – dubbed the Ranch – is located in the heart of the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood in Nashville. The Ranch specializes in brewing and canning Jackalope’s four year-round beers, two seasonal beers, and a wide variety of limited release beers. They've got pretty cool can designs, too. jackalopebrew.com

Fat Bottom Brewing Co.  

This industrial style taproom, fondly known as the Hop Yard, is located in the Nations, and features an outdoor bier garden and a bar area overlooking the brewery itself. Sip specialty ales and seasonal beers, which are served alongside burgers. fatbottombrewing.com

Tennessee Brew Works 

Brewed using only natural ingredients that are sourced from local farms whenever possible, Tennessee Brew Works offers a variety of beers with favorites including Southern Wit and Hippies and Cowboys. Leaving town? Tennessee Brew Works features a full service bar in the Nashville International Airport at the Concourses A and B intersection. Enjoy a beer at the bar or purchase a Flight Pack to take craft beers with you to your destination. tnbrew.com