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