USA, TN: Various Artists Brewing Co. planned in Nashville by two local entrepreneurs

Two Nashville entrepreneurs plan to open a brewery on Elm Hill Pike not far from Fesslers Lane, the Nashville Post reports. The brewery and pub will offer a menu featuring Argentine-style grilled meats.

Pat Isbey and Jeff Bergman will co-own and operate Various Artists Brewing Co., to be located at 1011 Elm Hill Pike in a building that Bergman owns. Longtime followers of Nashville's restaurant scene may recall Isbey from the excellent barbecue spot Jimmy Carl's Lunch Box, which he owned and operated from 2009 to 2010 in the Station Inn building in the Gulch. Isbey and Bergman are targeting a late-December opening for Various Artists Brewing.

Their effort to launch the brewery comes after they scrapped plans for a beer-focused pub in East Nashville’s fast-changing McFerrin Park district. That business would have been located in the Morris Jacobs Building on Wilburn Street.

Now Isbey and Bergman say they have found a location perfectly suited for their concept. The room will seat up to 27 patrons inside; the building also has a large deck and a secluded patio.

The Various Artists Brewing menu is still being finalized, Isbey tells the Post. “I’m into Argentinian-style cooking,” he says, adding that the Various Artists food offerings will reflect the asado method, which involves cooking meat on a grill or an open fire.

The beer menu will feature lagers, ales and sours. The business partners do not plan to offer packaged product in retail stores for the foreseeable future. Some sours will be bottled for sale on site.

Bergman, an arborist by trade, has homebrewed for 15 years and has entered various contests.

“I think my chops are valid, and I’m ready to move onto a new vocation,” he says of the brewery and pub.

The two business partners are hoping they can lure thirsty Donelson residents from east of their site.

“There are lots of folks moving to Donelson these days,” Isbey says. “We’re happy to bridge the urban Nashville and Donelson communities.”

30 September, 2018