Cedar Glade Brews

Cedar Glade Brews started the way the best beer usually does, with friends who could not stop tinkering. Jeremy Weaver and Skip Webb homebrewed together for years, and after meeting Jonathan Harmon and Elicia Fortner at a local fundraiser in 2019, the four turned a shared obsession into a brewery. They opened in Murfreesboro in 2021 with one promise: to make craft beer that honors the traditions, land, and culture of Middle Tennessee.

The name is pure Rutherford County. A cedar glade is a globally rare habitat found right here in Middle Tennessee, where limestone, cedar, and tough little natives thrive in almost desert-like conditions. There is more going on in a glade than you would guess at a glance, and that is exactly how this crew thinks about beer. Seven flagships stay on year-round, from the easy-drinking Lytle Creek Lager to the Longhunter West Coast IPA, the Stones River oatmeal stout, and the Nuttin' But Fun toasted pecan porter, alongside a cider on tap and a cooler stocked with over a hundred curated cans.

The taproom is where it all comes together: deep-green walls, a long live-edge bar, and a relaxed, family- and dog-friendly room that opens onto a patio with fire pits when the weather is right, almost always with a food truck parked out front. The calendar stays full with live music on weekend nights, trivia, board-game evenings, and a monthly blues jam. As the founders put it, everyone belongs in the Glade, no matter what you drink or don't.