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Bearded Iris Brewing
Bearded Iris Brewing opened in 2016 in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, building its identity specifically around hazy, juice-forward New England-style IPAs at a moment when that style was still relatively new to the broader Southern craft beer market. Homestyle IPA became the brewery's signature release and developed a genuine cult following, with limited can releases regularly drawing long lines and rapid sellouts, a level of hype-driven demand uncommon among Nashville breweries at the time of its emergence. The brewery's tight focus on hazy IPA specifically, rather than a broad multi-style core lineup, mirrored the hyper-focused single-style approach several nationally acclaimed hazy IPA breweries had used to build outsized reputations relative to their production size. For a Nashville breweries list, Bearded Iris is the essential "hazy IPA cult favorite" entry — a Germantown brewery whose tight focus on juice-forward IPAs, led by Homestyle, built lines-out-the-door demand rare for the local scene.
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Jackalope Brewing Company
Jackalope Brewing Company was founded in 2011 by Bailey Spaulding and Robyn Virball, becoming one of the first female-founded and female-owned breweries in Tennessee at a moment when women running production breweries remained a genuine rarity across the American craft beer industry. Thunder Ann Golden Ale, named after Spaulding's grandmother, became the brewery's flagship and one of the more recognizable core beers to emerge from Nashville's early 2010s craft beer growth, helping establish Jackalope as a genuine commercial presence rather than a novelty. The founders' backgrounds — Spaulding had worked in craft beer sales before starting the brewery, giving her direct insight into what the local market actually wanted — shaped a deliberately approachable, sessionable core lineup rather than an extreme-styles-first approach. For a Nashville breweries list, Jackalope is the essential "female-founded pioneer" entry — one of Tennessee's first female-owned breweries, built around an approachable core lineup led by its Thunder Ann Golden Ale.
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