Nashville Brewing Company

The brewery was revived in 2016 by beer historian Scott R. Mertie,[1] who had written a history of the Nashville brewing industry a decade earlier.

[5] The existing facility was razed, and Moerlein and Gerst initially planned to invest "between $250,000 and $500,000 into the Nashville Brewing Company", by their own account to "erect the finest and largest brewery in the whole Southern Country" on the property.

[5] They made an intense study of the production methods of the original company in order to produce the same lager beers that the immigrants would have brewed in the late 1800s.

[5] In May 2018, the revived company won a silver medal at the prestigious World Beer Cup for its Nashville Lager, in the Munich Helles category.

[11][12] In September of the same year, the company won a bronze medal in the 2018 Great American Beer Festival competition's kellerbier/zwickelbier category for its NashZwickel, an unfiltered lager.

[14] In May 2019, Mertie and Vanderbilt University anthropology professor John Janusek used ground-penetrating radar to map the area beneath downtown Nashville's 6th Avenue South, in an attempt to locate tunnels and cellars thought to have been used by the original Nashville Brewing Company, and its successor, the William Gerst Brewing Company.

[15][3] At the October 2020 Great American Beer Festival, the company won a silver medal for its Nashville Lager in the Munich Helles category.