Cyanide Cider Closes Nashville Taproom to Boost Crazy Gnome Beer Growth

Grayson Miller built Cyanide Cider as a deliberate side project to Crazy Gnome Brewery, a dry-cider experiment tucked into the Woodbine commercial district on Nashville's south side. Now, roughly three years after opening that 410 Woodbine St. taproom, he is pulling the plug on the standalone operation and rolling the cidery into Crazy Gnome's larger East Nashville facility. The last pour at Woodbine comes April 19, with Cyanide Cider expected to be operational again by early May at 1005 W. Kirkland Ave., the Inglewood-area home Crazy Gnome relocated to in mid-2025.

Miller said the consolidation at the East Nashville facility "needed to happen" for practical considerations. The move strips out one layer of overhead at a moment when Nashville's independent beer and cider scene has been navigating some of the toughest post-pandemic headwinds in the industry's recent history. Combining operations under a single roof lets Miller concentrate staff, production, and marketing behind the Crazy Gnome brand rather than splitting attention between two distinct addresses.

Miller and his brother Bennett Miller opened Crazy Gnome in mid-2020. What started in a small building at 948 Main St. on the east side eventually outgrew that space, prompting the move to the far larger Kirkland Avenue facility, which is sufficiently large to allow Crazy Gnome to begin canning. Canning has long been a missing piece for the micro-brewery, which to this point has operated exclusively as a taproom pour. Bringing Cyanide Cider's production under that same roof adds fermentation diversity without adding another address to manage.

Miller opened Cyanide Cider in mid-2023 at the building he purchased for $1.21 million in January 2022, situated one block west of Nolensville Road. The cidery distinguished itself with a no-back-sweetening philosophy, producing dry cider from not-from-concentrate juice with zero added sugars and leaning into a blend-in-glass taproom format that gave customers control over their own pint. With Cyanide Cider vacating 410 Woodbine, Marble Fox will relocate to that South Nashville building.

For Crazy Gnome regulars, the early May reopening at Kirkland means cider returns to the tap list at the brewery's upgraded home, where the operation now has space to grow into rather than against. The craft beer and cider industry's tentative stabilization makes this exactly the kind of consolidation move that smaller independents are using to survive the lean stretch and position for whatever the recovery actually looks like.