The Food Biz: From mattresses to suds

Nashville’s pint glass is overflowing when it comes to brewery news. Two new operations, Broadcast Brewing Co. and Fat Bottom Brewing, are working to open in separate sections of a former warehouse at Main Street and Ninth in East Nashville. It’s the old Fluffo Mattress site, and the breweries are the first tenants in the redevelopment.

Both will brew on the premises, and both plan to be “packaging breweries,” selling primarily to restaurants. Both will have tap rooms so customers can sample their hand-crafted beers. In fact, when the complex is completed, it will include an interior courtyard that will be a shared beer garden for both businesses. (Developer Dan Heller said he wasn’t ready to share details of the Fluffo project as a whole.)