First off, we won't have ANY this year. NONE. The only way to get tickets is online, or at the three Jim-n-Nicks restaurants in Nashville, Smyrna, and Murfreesboro.
The second night session is sold out, I hear. And there are only about 500 or so tickets left for the first day session. Don't say we didn't warn you, get your tickets now!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Yazoo in the Gulch
If you have ever taken a tour of the brewery, you know how tight it is back there. We've crammed tanks and equipment in every conceivable corner, and for the past year it's been like brewing in a submarine. And we hate seeing people having to wait so long for a beer or a growler now, due to our cramped quaters. So late last year we took the plunge and started planning a much bigger brewery.
We bought a building at 910 Division, right behind all the condos going up there. It has a wide-open floor plan that will allow us to brew about four times as much beer as we can here at Marathon. We're also planning a bigger taproom with an outdoor beer garden, with the same concept of local cheeses and bread to accompany the beer.
Construction will start soon, with our contractor ripping out some of the old interior walls and beginning on some concrete work to install new drains in the brewery. Luckily, we won't have do as much to get the building up to codes as we had to do here at Marathon. The new brewery should be arriving in October, and we already have three 80 bbl fermenters and an 80 bbl brite tank sitting in the yard under tarps. If everything goes well, we hope to be brewing there in early 2010. Check back here for pictures as we progress. It's going to be a long process, with lots of regulatory permits to get that may delay us, but we've done it once before so we won't be surprised!
What will happen with our space at Marathon? We would love to continue to have a presence there, after all the work we put into it and the goodwill we generated for the cool old building. It's a great space, and we have a great relationship with the owner, but we had to make a move to continue to grow. We have some interesting irons in the fire for ideas for this space, but right now are focussed on getting the new brewery up and running.
We bought a building at 910 Division, right behind all the condos going up there. It has a wide-open floor plan that will allow us to brew about four times as much beer as we can here at Marathon. We're also planning a bigger taproom with an outdoor beer garden, with the same concept of local cheeses and bread to accompany the beer.
Construction will start soon, with our contractor ripping out some of the old interior walls and beginning on some concrete work to install new drains in the brewery. Luckily, we won't have do as much to get the building up to codes as we had to do here at Marathon. The new brewery should be arriving in October, and we already have three 80 bbl fermenters and an 80 bbl brite tank sitting in the yard under tarps. If everything goes well, we hope to be brewing there in early 2010. Check back here for pictures as we progress. It's going to be a long process, with lots of regulatory permits to get that may delay us, but we've done it once before so we won't be surprised!
What will happen with our space at Marathon? We would love to continue to have a presence there, after all the work we put into it and the goodwill we generated for the cool old building. It's a great space, and we have a great relationship with the owner, but we had to make a move to continue to grow. We have some interesting irons in the fire for ideas for this space, but right now are focussed on getting the new brewery up and running.
And to all our fans - don't worry, we aren't going to change anything! Still going to be making the best best beer we can, by people who love what they are doing!
Monday, June 29, 2009
YAZOO WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE 4TH OF JULY
... so come on down and see us at the Hot Chicken Festival, in East Park over in east Nashville. It runs from 11-3 PM, with hot chicken from Nashville's best hot chicken joints and a cold Yazoo beer. We're going to have a bigger beer garden tent this year, and hopefully the beer lines will move faster with a year under our belt.
Cheers,
Linus
Cheers,
Linus
Hop Project #16 out in bottles and draft!
Our third bottled version of Hop Project should be out in stores in the next few weeks. You can identify this one as being bottled on the 4th week in June (it also has the date marked on the outside of the case boxes if you see a display).
You might think, man, it must be getting hard for the Yazoo brewers to come up with new recipes and hops to try, after 16 versions. Not so! There's always a new hop or a new way of using it that we have been wanting to try.
Hop Project #16 is hopped with Galena, Zeus, and Columbus at first wort, Goldings and Ahtanum at 30 minutes left for flavor, and with Perle and Ahtanum at 5 minutes left for aroma. We use Perle a good bit in our beers, but always as a bittering hop, never as an aroma or flavor hop. So for this one, we also dry-hopped it with a combination of Perle and Ahtanum. Finally, we wanted to experiment with the mineral profile of the beer, which changes how the bitterness is perceived on your tongue. We ususally use add gypsum to the water for hoppy beers, which tends to sharpen the hop bitterness. But this time we switched to calcium chloride, which rounds out the malt flavors a little more.
I like it. It has the juicy citrusy bitterness you would expect from Galena, Zeus, and Columbus, but the Perle on the finish seems to give it a little minty edge. The bitterness doesn't hit you over the head at first, but lingers like a good friend who doesn't want to go home yet.
Cheers,
Linus
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cantina Laredo is asking for your input on their beer selection
The Gulch's newest restaurant, Cantina Laredo, has a fairly standard array of draft beers, set by the corporate office. Neil, our sales manager, has been trying to get a Yazoo handle in there since they opened. When he met with Mike, the manager there, Mike suggested that if his customers would email him asking for Yazoo there, he would have some ammunition to take to corporate. So how about it? If you want Yazoo and other craft beers on tap there (they have excellent food, by the way), email Mike at nashville@cantinalaredo.com.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Come out to the Taste of Music City this Saturday, Gateway Bridge 5-9 PM
Explore the foods from 50 local restuarants as you watch the sunset from the Gateway Vietnam Veterans Bridge in downtown Nashville this Saturday from 5-9 PM. The organizers are doing a lot of things differently this year. There will be one beer garden, hosted by Yazoo, pouring all your favorites, plus our new Summer Ale. The wine garden will be hosted by Arrington Vineyards, and Jack Daniels will wet your whistle with their Velvet Elvis.
Recap: Another one in the books! Thanks to Candace Price for putting on a great party!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Make Plans - Hot Chicken Festival July 4th (because the Taproom will be closed!)
Top Ten Reasons you need to attend this year's Hot Chicken Festival, July 4th, East Park
1. It's quickly becoming a Nashville tradition
2. The first 500 people will be treated to free samples
3. A bigger Yazoo beer garden
4. A new Yazoo beer - Summer Ale - sure to quench the fire
5. The festival will go one hour longer this year
6. Get to try hot chicken from Nashville's famous and Nashville's up-and-coming
7. Very kid friendly - just don't let them rub their eyes
8. Fireworks inside, then later fireworks outside!
9. Proceeds go to Friends of Shelby Park
10. and last, but not least, the Yazoo taproom will be closed for the 4th of July
So come on down and see us at the Hot Chicken Festival, July 4th at East Park, on Woodland Street in east Nashville.
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