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The Craft Beer Scene Is Thriving In Knoxville, TN

February 4, 2020 by kevinwilkerson Leave a Comment

An Ale Trail, Knox Brew Tours And Some 20 Breweries Are Rocking The New Rocky Top

Knox Beer Tours Knoxville TN
Craft beer lovers to a cheers while on a Knox Beer Tours excursion. Photo: Knox Beer Tours

By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Beer Blogger (And Knoxville Native)

In the land of Rocky Top, where Jack and Coke is the preferred beverage at UT football games and the area’s signature song says people “get their corn from a jar,” another beverage is scoring big points with locals: craft beer.

In fact, the craft beer scene is thriving in Knoxville, TN. There are some 30 breweries, tap rooms and other places to get locally-brewed beer in this East Tennessee town next to the Great Smoky Mountains.

There’s even an Ale Trail, which consists of 19 breweries you can explore on your own and Knox Brew Tours that takes care of those pesky things that can often inhibit the full enjoyment of visiting breweries, such as driving and not being able to share the local brews experience with a fun group of like-minded strangers.




“What I have seen is more and more people appreciating, and understanding, craft beer,” said Zach Roskop, who runs Knox Brew Tours and is known as kind of the guru of the local craft beer scene. “And the brewer owners finally saw that there was an opportunity and a mass of people that would consume their craft and a general excitement that that was happening in Knoxville, a place they already loved so much.

“When we started Knox Brew Tours there were four breweries in Knoxville. Now, five years  later, there are more than 18! The growth has been amazing to watch and it’s been incredibly fun for us.”

Knoxville Breweries Pretentious Beer Co
Breweries offer local beers like these at Pretentious Beer Co. Photo: Pretentious Beer Co.
Knoxville Breweries Last Days Of Autumn Brewery
Last-Days Of Autumn Brewery is full of days with filled with craft beer. Photo: Last Days Of Autumn Brewery
Knoxville Breweries Abridged Beer Company patio
The patio at Knoxville Breweries Abridged Beer Company is a great local social craft beer setting. Photo: Knoxville Breweries Abridged Beer Company

Roskop can’t point to one reason for the sudden surge, but did say “craft breweries have become something so much more than just a bar but more similar to a community center that focuses on culture, creativity, the whole family, and finding unique ways to give back to the community.

“Knoxville’s beer community is unique because there seems to be a mutual and deep love for the city that surrounds it.”

If this seems as if it’s going against the grain, so to speak, of what one thinks about when East Tennessee and Rocky Top comes to mind, Roskop says the transformation of downtown Knoxville from being a 9-to-5 business area to a cool hangout – after all, one brewery is in the old Woolworth’s department store – has provided the equivalent of a starter kit.

“Although Tennessee has a great tradition of whiskey with Jack Daniels, Jack doesn’t really feel like an identity of East Tennessee,” Roskop  said. “And although we LOVE our football, it’s been great over the past years to see downtown Knoxville grow on its own to become a unique destination without having to relay on students or football fans.”

Whatever the reason, the old stereotypes are as dated as the old cannon that used to sit on The Hill behind Neyland Stadium during UT football games. Knoxville’s thriving craft beer scene is a big part of the modern K-town.



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