TailGate Brewery Adds Wizard’s Order IPA to Year-Round Lineup

TailGate Brewery announced that Wizard’s Order IPA, a 6.0% abv beer, will join its year‑round core lineup alongside TailGate Orange Wheat, Lager Projekt and TailGate Cider. The brewery said the IPA is available on draft and in 6‑packs of 12 oz cans at all eight TailGate taprooms, an airport outpost and at retailers across Tennessee.

The beer’s recipe leans on Krush and Citra hops paired with a barley and wheat malt base, producing tasting notes the brewery lists as mango, passionfruit and fresh orange zest. TailGate positions Wizard’s Order as a fruit-forward sessionable IPA at 6.0% abv designed to sit alongside its flagship pours and pizza-centric taproom menu.

Wizard’s Order started life as a rotating experimental series released last year, with TailGate tweaking recipes and collecting customer feedback during the run. The brewery describes the beer as the product of more than a year of research and development, while some accounts circulated that the iterative testing stretched as long as about 2.5 years as the team refined hop schedules and flavor balance before making the beer permanent.

TailGate is an independent brewery and pizzeria headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, operating since 2014. The company currently lists eight taprooms across the state plus an airport outpost and more than 250 employees in Tennessee. TailGate has emphasized employee pay and benefits, including what it describes as great wages and 100% paid health benefits for its staff.

On the production side, TailGate says it brews over 300 unique recipes annually and drops several small-batch beers weekly, with those limited runs available only at its taprooms. Wizard’s Order moves out of that rotation model into the stable of four year‑round beers that will be distributed in cans and on draft to retailers, restaurants and craft spots throughout Tennessee.

The move to make Wizard’s Order permanent extends TailGate’s focus on rapid iteration and taproom-driven product development, adding a citrus‑and‑tropical hop profile to a core portfolio anchored by TailGate Orange Wheat and Lager Projekt. The new year‑round availability means drinkers should find Wizard’s Order on local draft boards and in six‑packs at Tennessee retailers now that TailGate has added it to its core lineup.