hq Taproom
Located at the corner of BB King Blvd & Butler Ave, just a few blocks from the legendary Beale Street, our downtown taproom is a huge, art-forward space offering 30 different beers on tap and featuring a top-notch pizza kitchen, Little Bettie. The HQ taproom is open seven days a week, allowing for both on-site consumption and the purchase of packaged beer. At the downtown brewhouse, we concentrate on brewing our year-round beers using a 50bbl Braukon and a cutting-edge packaging line that can handle 250 cans per minute!! There is always something happening at WISEACRE, whether it’s Wednesday night trivia, weekly happy hours, or enjoying a beer & a slice before catching a Grizz game!
year round beers
Specialty & Seasonal Beers
Once a year, we all get to attain a very high status. Like high, like astronaut high. The biggest beer we make, it gets pretty crazy with the flavors. Cherry, coconut, vanilla, cinnamon, roasty coffee, pipe tobacco, chewy malt, and sherry are just a few of the flavor parts of this complex sipper.
A riff on the word kerfuffle named for its velvety texture. Oats bring a fluffy body and silky mouthfeel. While the style itself is named for oatmeal, Oatmeal Stouts do not usually taste specifically of oats. The smoothness of this 6% ABV beer comes from the high content of proteins and lipids imparted by the use of oats. In fluid dynamic terms, this higher viscosity adds to the sense of smoothness while the subtle roastiness puts the stout into this style making it a great beer for winter. An ode to the clear-bottle English oatmeal stouts. A rich and rewarding beer. Plus, Kerfluffle is just fun to say.
A barleywine to excite your taste buds, thwack your tongue, and give you boozy warmth. Balanced in the extremes – strong in both malt and hops with a chewy biscuity body, bracing bitterness, and apricot jam hops.
Bearded Iris Homestyle is an IPA hopped singularly with mosaic hops. Inviting and bright, outrageously crushable and designed for any occasion. Their take on a classic for the ever-evolving world. But most of all, it’s whatever you make of it. This is your Homestyle. Tasting notes include grapefruit, strawberry, frosted flakes, and fruit tea.
Oktoberfest is a Marzen, a smooth, clean, and malty German lager that was released each September for Oktoberfest in Munich. The word “Gemütlichkeit” is a German word referring to communal joy usually involving a beer or two and is a part of the traditional German Oktoberfest song “Ein Prosit.
One time Mr. Raccoon took a long walk through a long field of tall grass. When he got to the edge, there was nothing. It was space. A vacuum. Being an adventuresome tiny bear rodent, he jumped off, but not into something, into nothing. As he fell through the starless abyss, in swooped Senorita Nighthawk, grabbing him by the neck scruff and flapping him off further into the darkness. There they came upon Archduke Flying Bear, and they all sang a song of bliss and ignorance and beers and laughter before going poof and becoming nothing. This nothing becomes an ethereal smooth dark lager from Thuringia.
Skip the mall, put on a flannel, grab your CDs from the quad, and take “a voyage to the moon” for this amber ale that will totally take you back to the 90’s (you can pick up your plumeria-scented lotion later). This beer is full of biscuits and honey malt with low-key hops will make you come back for more…not sporadically, we hope! Ask our incognito cellarman if he loves it and he’ll tell you yes where he is and back again “Tonight, Tonight”. Word.