| Abita Brewing Co. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Abita Brew Pub in Abita Springs, LA |
|||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Abita Springs, Louisiana United States |
||||||||||||||||||
| Owner(s) | Abita Brewing, LLC. David Blossman, President; Mark Wilson, Brewmaster | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year opened | 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Annual production | 75,000 barrels | ||||||||||||||||||
| Active beers | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
| Seasonal beers | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
| Other beers | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
The Abita Brewing Company is a craft brewery located in Abita Springs, Louisiana, 30 miles north of New Orleans. They first began brewing beer in 1986. That year, the company produced 1,500 barrels of beer. Today, they brew over 80,000 barrels of beer annually and 5,000 barrels of root beer annually. [4] [5]
Abita Golden, Abita Amber and Abita Turbodog are sold in various markets across the United States and Puerto Rico. Abita Brewing Company is the 17th largest Craft Brewery and the 31st largest brewery of any category in the United States ranked by volume sold in 2007.[6]
The company brews its beer with water from artesian wells in Abita Springs. They produce several types of beer year round, and also produce a series of seasonal beers. In August 2005, Stuff Magazine named Abita's Turbodog Ale as the best beer made in America.[7]
The company also produces Abita root beer using Louisiana sugarcane. This makes Abita's root beer unusual in that it is sweetened with raw cane sugar, as opposed to high-fructose corn syrup.
The company also runs a brewpub in Abita Springs.
External links
References
- ^ Abita Andygator from Abita Brewing Company, a Doppelbock style beer: An unofficial page for Abita Andygator from Abita Brewing Company in Covington, Louisiana , United States of America
- ^ Owen Ogletree's Pub Crawl for the best pubs, beer bars, and brewpubs in New Orleans, Louisiana
- ^ Draft Beer List
- ^ Webster, Richard A. (November 2007), "Stout Market: North Shore Beer Makers and Distributors Partake in an Unprecidented Sales Boom" (PDF), New Orleans City Business, North Shore Report.: 31–33, http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/PDFIssues/11-01-2007NSR.pdf
- ^ Owen Ogletree (2008-05-10), Brewtopia Events LLC report on Abita Brewery, Brewtopia LLC, http://www.classiccitybrew.com/abita08.html, retrieved 2008-07-23[1]
- ^ Julia Herz (2007-04-10) (PDF), Craft Beer Segment - The One to Watch, Brewers Association, http://www.beertown.org/pr/Top50Release_4_07.pdf[2]
- ^ "Turbodog Is the Big Dog In National Magazine". Abita Brewing Company. http://www.abita.com/news/turbodog.html. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
|
|||||||||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
