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Updated list of Louisiana breweries
This is the down and dirty, if you just need a verified list of brewery names in Louisiana, list. Please comment or drop me a note if you have any new info – my ear is not as close to the ground to all the openings and closings as it used to be, so I’m
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Travel Musings I: Paris (the good)
In the fall of 2018 and then in the summer of 2019 I had the opportunity to participate in two different French guided trips – a culinary tour of Provence and one in the waterways of the Bordeaux region. Sitting in my house staring at the same walls every day in this time of sheltering
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The Best Bars in New Orleans Right Now
If there’s anything New Orleans has a lot of, it’s bars. From the birthplaces of historic cocktails and tacky Bourbon Street walk-ups to expansive brewpubs and cozy dives, we take our drinking establishments seriously.
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The Stage is Set at Zony Mash
At New Orleans’s historic Gem Theater, live entertainment is brewing once again
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Field Trips: Blue Moon Brewery
From the Sandlot to making wine-beer hybrids, barrel aging and iced coffee brew in the River North District, Blue Moon’s journey is to go… smaller?
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A Mile Deeper
Courtyard Brewery Entrenches in Spite of Louisiana Beer Laws
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Aspen travels – Food & Wine… and beer?
Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to go to the Aspen Food & Wine Classic Festival as a guest of Blue Moon Brewing (who flew me out and paid for all travel expenses) to witness Blue Moon’s (and beer in general) participation in this wine-driven event. Shout out to the Kimpton Hotel Born in
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Beer Advocate’s List of Top 50 New Breweries
Two New Orleans breweries made the cut. To find out the other 48, check out the story here. Below are my writeups.
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Beercation: Finding Great Beer in New Orleans
New Orleans will always be a party town, but until recently, the party has ignored most beer beyond pale lagers. Today, as people turn toward more flavorful alternatives throughout the rest of the country, New Orleans is taking its sweet time to catch up.
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Great Raft Brewing Brings The Funk
Great Raft’s Belgian-style beers taste radically different from their traditionally brewed ales and lagers, and it can take a little getting used to. But those same unusual flavors may attract people who don’t like traditional beer, and think they don’t like beer at all. It’s a matter of tasting and experimenting– and not judging after