NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Harding Home Brewing Co. in West Nashville is is among the driving forces behind Farm To Faucet (FTT), a partnership launched by the Tennessee Craft Brewers Guild and the Tennessee Division of Agriculture in 2021 to encourage Tennessee brewers to make use of Tennessee sourced elements of their beer.
Sharon Cheek, Govt Director of the Tennessee Craft Brewers Guild, credit Harding Home Brewing Founder Nate Underwood with serving to launch this system and for his advocacy round it, together with talking on the 2022 Tennessee Legislative Session to safe this system’s second yr of funding with a rise from $350,000 to $400,000.
In yr one, Farm To Faucet kicked off with three occasions at Guild member breweries— at Harding Home Brewing Co. in Nashville, at Printshop Beer Co. in Knoxville, and at Soul & Spirits Brewery in Memphis — aimed to interact the general public on this initiative by providing flight tastings, brewery excursions and panel discussions. Moreover greater than 1900 tickets had been offered for 3 FTT festivals that additionally came about in Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis. “The festivals introduced collectively farmers, brewers and customers for these interactive half-day occasions that included beer tastings, music, meals vehicles and different Tennessee distributors to get pleasure from,” says Cheek. “Moreover, greater than 30 Guild member breweries showcased beers using Tennessee grown crops and a number of other native distributors additionally attended and supplied their merchandise on the market.”
Riverbend Malt Home, a Tennessee Craft Brewers Guild member, supplied many of those brewers, Harding Home included, with Tennessee-grown malt choices like Cumberland Pilsner and Cumberland Corn. “We’re honored to have Riverbend’s partnership from the very starting,” says Cheek “From ‘what if’ chats over beers, to informative calls about malted barley, the whole group has made themselves accessible to assist the Farm To Faucet mission succeed.”
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