Hop Springs, the 80-acre property that houses the production facilities for Steel Barrel Brewery and the lab for MTSU Fermentation classes celebrated in May with a special sneak-peek opening event.

This special event coincided with the annual Craft Brewers Conference, which Nashville hosted this year. Shuttles carried conference attendees from downtown Nashville to Hop Springs, billed as a “rural wonderland” and located on John Bragg Highway (Highway 70S) just about six miles from the MTSU campus.

Hop Springs owner Mark Jones, who also owns Franklin-based Mantra Artisan Ales, says he plans for his new property to eventually offer an 18-hole disc golf course, a 3,000-seat amphitheater, a dog park, dining and picnic areas, agricultural fields, bee hives, livestock pastures and more, and that the property should be officially open to the public in early July.

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