OG Broad Taproom
Opened in September of 2013! Located in the Broad Arts District our “OG” taproom is open seven days a week for on-site consumption and package beer sales. All deliveries and keg sales are routed through this location. The OG brewhouse makes beer on a 20 BBL JV Northwest. Focuses include: Experimental Brews, Specialties, Nitro, Hop Zip, The Set Up, Cold Brew, and all things Bottled or Barrel Aged. There is always something fun happening at WISEACRE OG, including live music, food trucks, special events, and more!
YEAR ROUND beers
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 & clover wafting forth from this crisp, smooth Pale Lager. Shazam!
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 Republic to lend a gentle balance to our superior brew. When set out to brew the finest American lager, we needed a brilliantly clear and bright beer, with a delicious crisp flavor, easy drinkability, and quenching aftertaste. For all your beer needs. With only 99 to its name, you can compromise on calories, not on refreshment. Lagered cold and long, it’s the perfect beer for sweltering baseball games, cool Fall mornings, Spring showers, or snow angels. Come fly the smooth skys with Sky Dog.
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.
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 grain sand, culminating in a huge underground lake filled with 57 trillion gallons of virtually mineral-free water. With this prestigious water reserve, we supply Memphis with Sands, our one-of-a-kind Lager. Beauteous in its simplicity, it is very low in bitterness and full of delicious flavors of bread and cracker-y malt.
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 done the long way. For old men, not teenagers.
On a magical trip to Japan, WISEACRE’s brewer and founder fell further in love with the country and the customs he had often admired from afar. Food, communication, architecture, and even beer operate on different wavelengths in different countries and there is much to be learned and admired. It is out of the Japanese tradition of dry rice lager that birthed WISEACRE’s IRUSU. Succumb to gentle rice, smooth taste, and a dry, palate-cleansing finish to this beer which found its inspiration on the other side of the globe including the Ukiyo-e woodblock art influencing this label.
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 flavor while oats add a fluffy texture. It may look strange, but they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder (if you’re an IPA traditionalist we recommend closing them). However, you won’t regret trying this clouded-up version. Your vision may be blurry from staring into life’s bowl of horseshoes or within the thought sausage of unintelligible words inside a glowing book of sleepless dreams, but Bow Echo will help your eyes climb to safety and the chilly water will take care of the rest.
Specialty & Seasonal beers
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.
Our take on a classic German Festbier! This golden-straw colored brew is your perfect companion for any celebration. We brewed this beer to have a rich, satisfying body that’s both substantial and incredibly smooth. Grassy and herbal hop aromas and flavors that perfectly balance the beer’s richness, leading to a truly harmonious and refreshing experience. Inspired by traditional brewing methods, Thomas Says Smile is a nod to the past, bringing you a beer that’s both authentic and incredibly enjoyable. So go ahead, take a sip, and smile!
Made by our now former resident lollygagger and expert on redneck dentistry Andy McQuary. Descendent of Scottish sheep thieves, the name McQuary has long been associated with avoiding “the man” which is why in days of yore, you could barely spot his mustachio hiding behind the shadows of the silos but for the glow of his BLKs. Zingy flavors and aromas of bergamot orange come from the generous post-fermentation addition of Earl Grey Tea dreamed up by Davin’s classmate, a fellow graduate of Siebel Brewing School and veteran brewer of Great Northern in Whitefish, Montana.
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.
Today is the day to reach for a beach. For each beach you breach, You may make a speech about beaches or reaches or star-bellied sneeches, but this beach within reach will be just out of reach unless you get Screech To teach you to preach. For our Beach Within Reach. Is not aged on beech. For a day, a month or a weech. This we beseech.
We found inspiration in the beautiful and precocious dog breed known as the Italian Greyhound who is often parti-colored. It sounded like a fun name and we’ve been known to get on the Venga bus + parti a bit too. This beer is brewed with Weyermann’s Italian Eraclean Malt, which is actually grown on the Adriatic coast of Italy, northeast of Venice. Dry hopped with Hallertau Blanc, which is a daughter to Cascade, it’s a great blend of grassy German hops and fruity American hops with a wonderful vinous character. Crisp, clean, with a touch more bitterness than your German Pilsner. But what is an Italian Pilsner?
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.
Unicornucopia is our “Grand Cru” (a special beer we make every year for our beer fest, Taste the Rarity; the recipe changes every year). Festbier is the lower ABV and lighter colored cousin of Marzen. But this one is special. Uni ’25 was dragged through the garden in France. We got a hold of a bunch of Chardonnay barrels, filled them with festbier, and then aged them in our “cave” over the winter. What resulted is a lovely balance of malt, fruity white wine, zippy lemon, toasty oak, and crispy cracker. Round mouthfeel and subtle grape notes accentuate the finish. This is one of the lowest ABVs we have clocked on Unicornucopia, perfect for a strong sipping spring session. This unfiltered beer came out brilliantly clear, and the lovely light amber hue looks great topped with white foam. Prost!
non-alcoholic Options
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.
Zip Zero Nada when it comes to alcohol, sugar, and calories, but not when it comes to flavor! Hydrating and refreshing, Hop Zip is charged with Mosaic hops’ resin and tropical fruit notes plus a flavor spritz of natural lime, reminding your palette of a balance between delightful hop flavors and aromas, all wrapped up in a tasty, flavorful sparkling water. What exactly is hop water? This new category is beer adjacent, as it features an ingredient that is unique to breweries (hops) but is closer to hop tea or sparkling water. Hop Zip is non-alcoholic with zero carbs and zero sugars but retains the therapeutic qualities of hops. For ours, we chose Mosaic hops, which create amazing tropical and melon flavors/aromas in beer. An all-cold extraction process led to some different expressions of Mosaic hops.
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The entrance to the OG Taproom is at the back of the building. Please park parallel to the railroad tracks or on Cumberland Street. Kindly avoid blocking or parking in our loading dock area.