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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!

What's On Tap?

year round beers

IPA
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6.2%
IBU: 75%
Malted and flaked wheat is used to bring body to this classic ale. A downright wasteful amount of Cascade and Centennial hops are used to give this beer its aromas of grapefruit rind, mango, and melon. Hoppy, pale, and quaffable.

Hazy IPA
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7%
IBU: 45%
When you’ve reached your all-time low, you need a parking lot veggie burrito and the warm snuggle of a stranger’s husky (probably named Stash), the winds of change may find this beer landing in your hand. A vigorous dry hopping with Mosaic, Citra, Denali, and Centennial hops adds tons of citrus and ripe tropical fruit…

Coffee Milk Stout
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5%
IBU: 15%
Magical natural process beans from the Konga region of Ethiopia lead the way in this intense coffee stout. This rare variety of coffee leads to aromas of sweet roastiness and blueberry pie flavors. Lactose, or milk sugar, is added along with oats for a silky medium body and a lush finish. Red Bull and vodka…

Helles Lager
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5.1%
IBU: 20%
From deep within the earth’s crust, the finest drinking water on planet Earth springs forth to Memphis. This unique aquifer supplies WISEACRE with the most necessary of ingredients for the production of a crisp, light-colored lager. The rains that fell to earth 3000 years ago are filtered very slowly through hundreds of feet of fine…

Premium Lager
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4%
Sky Dog beat out 157 entrants to win the Gold Medal for American-Style Light Lager at the Great American Beer Festival! At WISEACRE, we bring together the highest quality North American two-row barley malt and corn from American fields to produce this A-MAIZE-ING beer. Saaz hops, of the highest excellence, are brought from the Czech…

Mexican Style Amber Lager
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5%
OG: 12%
When you need instant lakebeach refreshment, reach for a crisp, cold, Sky Dog Amber.  The pop of corn meets soothing caramel, in an extremely pleasing sip of satisfaction.  Our luxurious Mexican style amber lager is a mouthful of flavor, but still easy as pie. This chill lager is built for beating the heat with an elite frosty…

Chelada with Salt and Lime
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4%
OG: 8%
IBU: 14%
Our lime and salt version of Sky Dog offers a refreshing twist on our slammable classic. Brewed with natural lime and a touch of sea salt, this crisp and light lager delivers bright, citrusy flavor with a slightly salty kick. Perfect for a hot summer day or a casual gathering, this flavor combo will make…

American Pilsner
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4.5%
Boom! The soft waters of Pilsen, Czech Republic birthed this classic style centuries ago & the waters from our Artesian wells in Memphis are perfect to create our version today. Pow! This beer is made with German pilsner malt and spiked with 50 lbs. of local wildflower honey. There are delicate aromas of sugar &…

Specialty & Seasonal Beers

Barleywine
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9%
IBU: 60%

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.


Lager
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4.5%
Introducing WISEACRE’s limited-edition anniversary beer, Sky D’Apple! 🍎
50% slammable and delicious lager mixed with 50% snappy cider equals 100% applesfaction. South African cider apples completed their voyage to Memphis and landed in our favorite summer beer. This version of Sky Dog is a bit more tart, and somehow even easier to drink than the original. Expect the classic lager beer profile to be a bit understated, giving way to gentle apple flavors and a zing of acidity. A perfect mash up for our 13th birthday!

Lager
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4.2%

This crisp, clean, and seriously easy to drink light lager is brewed with two-row malt, corn, and Huell Melon hops to bring in subtle cantaloupe notes.

For Booker-Loo’s Melting Pot Boot-Leg Lager, WISEACRE friend and artistic genius, Rachel Briggs, drew inspiration from the color palette of Booker T. & the M.G.’s 1968 album Doin’ Our Thing.


Coffee
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0.0%

Our cold brew coffee project has been years in the making. Our friends at Metropolis Coffee have helped us through every step. It is well known that we are fans of coffee and other caffeinated beverages and this cold brew coffee is certainly another way for us to get up in addition to getting down. We are using a blend of coffees with particular attention being paid to Central and South American varieties. The end result is a slightly tart, refreshing brew with plenty of roast and a peanut buttery finish. This coffee is brewed using a cold method of extraction which produces a smoothness quite different from hot brewing methods. The bitterness normally associated with coffee is almost completely absent. There is however, plenty of caffeine. It may not be a good idea to drink more than one of these. This brew can be enjoyed straight from the can, but it is best poured over ice to maximize refreshment.


Ale
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5.2%

Bearded Iris Again & Again is an easy-to-drink East/West Coast hybrid Pale Ale with malty, citrus, and tropical hop notes.


IPA
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6%

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.


BA Imperial Stout
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10%
IBU: 20%

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.


Amber Ale
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5.2%
IBU: 25%

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.


Märzen
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6%
IBU: 22%

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.


Dry Irish Stout
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4%
IBU: 38%

This beer packs a sharp roasty punch yet remains light on its feet. A carbonated version of the classic Irish style will leave you wanting to go back in the ring for another round…and another…and another…


cocktails & wine

Margarita

batch cocktail! tequila, triple sec, agave, lime, salt or tajin rim

Salty Dog

batch cocktail! vodka, grapefruit, with salted rim

Tom Collins

batch cocktail! gin, lemon, simple syrup, lemon sugar rim

Whiskey Highball

The Set Up Whiskey Highball with lemon. Gluten free, sugar free, 99 calories, and 0 carbs.

Red Wine


White Wine


Sky Dog Spaghett

Sky Dog Premium Lager, Aperol, and lemon.

Non-alcoholic bevs

Hop Water
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0.0%

Trail Pass Golden

Non-alcoholic Golden made by Sierra Nevada
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0.5 %

Trail Pass IPA

Non-alcoholic IPA made by Sierra Nevada
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0.5 %

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Location

398 S B.B. King Blvd
Memphis, TN 38126
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Parking

The entrance to the HQ Taproom is located on the East side of the building. Parking is available on the South side of the building. Overflow parking can be found on Able Street or E. Butler Ave, but please do not park on BB King Blvd. Kindly avoid blocking or parking in our loading dock area.

Hours

Monday
4pm - 9pm
Tuesday
4pm - 9pm
Wednesday
4pm - 9pm
Thursday
1pm - 10pm
Friday
11am - 10pm
Saturday
11am - 10pm
Sunday
12pm - 9pm