Abita Brewing Company

Regional Brewery in Abita Springs, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Abita Brewing Co. (Brewpub)

Established in 1986

Contact
21084 Highway 36, Abita Springs, LA, 70433, United States
Description
The Abita Brewing Company is nestled in the piney woods 30 miles north of New Orleans. In its first year, the brewery produced 1,500 barrels of beer. We had no idea what we started. Customers loved our beer! By 1994, we outgrew the original site (now our 100-seat brew pub) and moved up the road to a larger facility to keep up with demand.

We brew more than 125,000 barrels of beer and 13,500 barrels of soda of in our state-of-the-art brewing facility. Our lagers and ales are brewed in small batches, hand-crafted by a team of dedicated workers with only the highest ideals of quality. This pride, along with our brewing process, is what creates our great brews.

We are privately owned and operated by local shareholders, many who have been with us since day one.

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6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

on tap-pours a rich off white head and gold color. Aorma is light/medium malt, some earthy/floral hops. Taste is light/medium malt-caramel, some earthy/floral hops. 3.0

Tried from Draft on 07 Dec 2008 at 16:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

on tap-pours a thin retaining off white head and amber color. Aroma is medium malt-sweet, herbal hops. Taste is medium malt-sweet, herbal hops, which offsets the sweet, then some floral. 3.0

Tried from Draft on 07 Dec 2008 at 15:57


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

on tap-pours a white head and yellow color. Aroma is sweet grain. Taste is light body, sweet grain, secondary hops-lemon.

Tried from Draft on 07 Dec 2008 at 15:54


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle, Courtesy MP, via NYC. Thank ya ! Funky lookin label. Poured an amber copper colour with a medium white head. Some grassy hop in the aroma, nothing major though. All quite low key in the flavour, which is not really hoppy enough for this style, hence the fact this was slightly on the thin side. Drinkable but lacking pizzazz.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Dec 2008 at 12:07


2.8
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Bottle. So this is the last part of a slummin’ with light beers night. Pour is a little darker (yellow) than the previous ratings, but head is virtually nonexistent. Aromas are a robust mix of straw and grain (well, by robustI mean for the company this keeps.) Flavor is an annoyingly sweet mix of malt and straw... not even grass, but that sweet and obnoxious smell you get from an old bale of slightly wet straw. Still, in comparison with some of its AB peers, this is a best in class for the night. I won’t be back ever again, but my Abita Light experience wasn’t completely awful.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2008 at 20:14


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 12fl.oz.[ Trade by kpresley77 ]. Clear medium red brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, bread, caramel, fruity - berry. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (050908)

Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2008 at 02:35


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Pours with a decent sized, off-white head. Clear light brown body. Head diminishes but leeaves some light lacicng. Aroma of pecans and other nuts with some light cereal. Extremeely watery taste with some nuts...Could have been a lot better. Kind of a mix of astringent malts. Fizzy and dry.

Tried from Can on 15 Nov 2008 at 18:14


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Beer tasted at mcbackus tasting. Pours clear copper with tan head. The aroma is rich yummy nuttiness with medium roasted malts in the background. Very nutty aroma. The taste has the same rich nuttiness as noted in the nose to go along with medium roasted malts and finishing with a drying malt and nutty astringency. Tasty brew that seduces with the nose.

Tried on 27 Oct 2008 at 22:53


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

This ale poured a very deep brown colour with a nice creamy, tan coloured head. Not much in the scent dept. Scents include brown sugar, caramel and an earthy note. First taste was smooth with flavours of cramel and dark malt. Finish was very malty and the palate very slightly bitter with a small amount of hopp flavour. Not bad.

Tried on 26 Oct 2008 at 20:36


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

12 oz draft at Epcot during the Food and Wine festival. Pour is slightly hazed golden, with just a touch of blueish purple peeking through. Aroma of light raspberry fruit, actually nice natural smell - just not much of it. Taste is tart wheat with a covering of the raspberry. Taste of the fruit was less natural tasting versus the nose. Overall, decent and drinkable.

Tried from Draft on 23 Oct 2008 at 20:53