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You can thank the members of the Tennessee Craft Brewers Guild (a nonprofit group based out of Nashville) for those first two items.

Add all that together with a booming economy and one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the nation, and it is pretty easy to see why Nashville makes a great location for craft brew startups.

But it is more than just politics. There is commerce and community behind this beast.

As a thriving center of economic boom, Nashville lends itself to entrepreneurship and local business. It also boasts a healthy tourism industry and possesses a young, adven turous demographic ready and willing to try new things. It also helps that at least once a month you can find some embodiment of a beer festival going on around town, which has given the national craft brewing community cause to pay attention.

The Nashville community, with its collective thirst for brews that are more pleasing to their palates, is but a microcosm in this surging universe of bubbly artisan beverages. A closer examination of the Nashville craft beer scene will show you it’s strongest at its roots. And those roots go almost a decade deep, back to 1996, when the homebrew club Music City Brewers held its first meeting.

At the heart of the this club was a group of people passionate about the beer they drink, all wanting to brew something they

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