Our first stop in the Volunteer state is Saw Works Brewing Company of Knoxville. Saw Works started life as Marble City in 2010 but has, as they put it, “hit the re-set button” and are now under a new name and housed in old Wallace Saw Works building.
Their current rotation includes a brown ale in an English style that, “reflects the chocolate malts as it first rolls across your tongue. This quickly changes as the dark toffee flavors begin to play with the spicy and earthy hop characteristics.”
Second up is their English Pale Ale with enough hops to satisfy an American palate. It has a malty profile and just enough woody or lightly floral hops for balance.
You can take a brewery tour and if you are a member of the Century Harvest Farm you can pick up your grass fed, hormone free beef and then get a beer. (Beer makes strange and wonderful bedfellows).