Yazoo Brewing Company

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Yazoo Brewing Company

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.