Who is Garr?
Born in Texas and raised in Nashville, Garr grew up around his mother’s extensive Nashville family. He left Nashville to attend Notre Dame, and then moved to New York City to begin his first career in finance.
His beer journey began during the early '90s among imports and microbreweries, and burgeoned while visiting Europe. In ‘92 he had his first pints of bitters, Guinness, tripels, Kölsch, and unfiltered wheats. Among his favorites from that trip was the Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier Dunkel. At that time a dark white beer was perplexing; today it’s almost pedestrian. He preserves that bottle cap as a reminder that a beer can be much different from perceived norms, and yet retain the essence of beer. He enthusiastically welcomed the microbrewery revolution in the States, and sought local beers while traveling abroad.
His beer journey began during the early '90s among imports and microbreweries, and burgeoned while visiting Europe. In ‘92 he had his first pints of bitters, Guinness, tripels, Kölsch, and unfiltered wheats. Among his favorites from that trip was the Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier Dunkel. At that time a dark white beer was perplexing; today it’s almost pedestrian. He preserves that bottle cap as a reminder that a beer can be much different from perceived norms, and yet retain the essence of beer. He enthusiastically welcomed the microbrewery revolution in the States, and sought local beers while traveling abroad.
Garr returned to Nashville in 2003, and finding so little access to quality ales (How times have changed!), he was enticed to brew his own beer. By 2011 he transitioned from a love for brewing beer at home to founding a brewery where he served as Master Brewer and President. During Garr’s tenure, the brewery earned accolades in national publications as one of the top new breweries in the U.S. In 2015, with a new vision, he left and founded Garr’s Beer Co. Garr has served his peers and friends in the brewing industry by serving on the board and as President for the Master Brewers Association of the Americas in the Mid-South District. The MBAA formed in 1887, and has more than 5,000 members in 23 different districts from more than 55 countries throughout the world. |