
Keen Competition for Taps Isn't Slowing Nashville's Craft Beer Explosion
On a hot summer afternoon in the back beer garden of the original M.L.Rose, decision makers from both the Eighth Avenue and Charlotte locations are drinking a lot of beers, an ounce or so at a time. It’s their quarterly “beer council,” and Tom Perry — the chief operating officer of A.Ray Hospitality, which owns M.L. Rose, Melrose Billiards and The Sutler — is running through a half-inch binder of marketing materials from various craft brewers, all of whom are pitching to get