diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 65fa63d931972494d0ceb3f300034eb4a8945dc7..9fe26c1ed6efe7b1bfbb18386c58166db4c36a88 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ commands =
         pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager rattail[auth,bouncer,db,tests]
         nosetests {posargs}
 
+[testenv:py27]
+commands =
+        pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager 'rattail[auth,bouncer,db,tests]' 'sqlalchemy-utils<0.36.7'
+        nosetests {posargs}
+
 [testenv:coverage]
 basepython = python3
 deps = invoke