![]() Noble Hops are kept very low, and this keeps the beer very light and refreshing, and easily accessible for a crowd used to the products made by the massive macro brewery just north of the city. ![]() It’s an excellently executed true to style Cream Ale, with a great buoyant body and a nice, unassuming sweetness with a lightly biscuity finish and just the tiniest hint of corn. Tabula Rasa’s Cream Ale is their Corbett Street Cream Ale ( Cream Ale, 4.9% ABV, 20 IBU), named for the tiny side street that ends in their parking lot. It is amazing how much one city likes one specific style of beer as much as that. I was also knee deep in the realization that if Jacksonville has a style of beer that it prefers to the point of obsession, it’s the Cream Ale. It was due to be a long night, so I knew I wasn’t going to be able to stay and try a ton of what they had. Just outside and behind the taps is a substantially large green space, dotted with interesting colorful sculptures left over from the former owners. It’s a massive facility, with three giant portholes separating the taproom from their immense brewery floor area. So they found a space, a warehouse formerly home to an art studio, to set up shop. Both he and their son Ryan took up the hobby, and after much trial and experimentation, perfected their art into a solid lineup of beers. It started when co-owner and Tap Room manager Jackie Peterson bought her husband Randy a book on brewing. Tabula Rasa, like so many other breweries, is a family affair. In one of these warehouses, right next to heavily wooded McCoy Creek, is Tabula Rasa Brewing, one of Jacksonville’s newest breweries. It’s a section of the town that experienced rapid growth after the fire that burned half of the city to the ground in 1901.ĭriving its streets, you get an interesting mashup of houses in radically different architectural styles combined with standard spacious boxy warehouses. It may not look like much, but there’s a lot of history and a lot of good happening in Jacksonville’s Railyard District.
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