Organization

Yazoo Brewing began as just a dream, stoked by years of homebrewing in the basement. Linus and Lila Hall moved to Nashville from Mississippi in 1996, with Linus going to work as a tire engineer for Bridgestone and Lila as a curator for the Parthenon. Trying to make tires more round proved to be less fulfilling than making great beer, so with the encouragement of Lila, Linus quit his job, got a business degree from Vanderbilt and a craft-brewing education through a course at the American Brewer's Guild, and did an internship under Garrett Oliver at Brooklyn Brewery. Linus found a used 10 bbl brewing system from a brewpub in Iowa that had gone out of business, and went to work restoring a corner of the old Marathon Motorworks building for their brewery. Yazoo Brewing opened for business in Oct 2003, and quickly gained an enthusiastic local following.

After six years, we had outgrown our leased space, and decided to move a short way down the road to a bigger building in the Gulch, at 910 Division Street. With a new 40 bbl brewhouse, and plenty of space to add more tanks, we're excited about being able to spread the good beer across the rest of the Southeast!

We're a tight crew at Yazoo. Sometimes it amazes even us how much beer we brew with just seven people in the brewery and five in the taproom.