Abita Brewing Company
Regional Brewery
in
Abita Springs,
Louisiana,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Abita Brewing Co. (Brewpub)
Established in 1986
Contact
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.
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.
5.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a bit of reddish translucence and a quickly fading head. Aromas are of nuts, stale coffee, chocolate, wet cardboard and slightly rotten potatoes. Coffee comes through strongly as a flavor and there is a bit of a sourness to it that compliments the earthy flavors. Still, it is a bit thin and doesn’t really go anywhere.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2008
at 21:23
6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Yellow rim on very deep-brown beer. Slightly roasted, some hints at malts. Roasted, liquorice, finely malty, drop , a bit Coca-cola like. Light mouthfeel, even watery. Pretty dull beer.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2008
at 15:12
4.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Brown bottle, 12 ounces, gift from Jean Hamilton received on March 31 2008, savoured on April 2008; eye: amber, clear, slight effervescence, tiny with head that disappears almost completely, a bit of lacing; nose: malt, caramel, grain; mouth: grain, acridness, a bit of water, a bit of caramel, finale in grain with acridness and a bit of caramel, lightly sweet, medium body, quite carbonated; overall: disappointing FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 12 onces, cadeau de Jean Hamilton reçu le 31 mars 2008, savourée le 18 avril 2008 ; œil : ambre, claire, très légère effervescence, petite mousse blanche qui disparaît presque complètement, un peu de dentelle; nez : malt, caramel, grain; bouche : grain, âcreté, un peu d’eau, un peu de caramel, finale en grain avec âcreté et un peu de caramel, légèrement sucrée, corps moyen, très carbonatée; en résumé : décevant
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2008
at 15:49
3.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Grassy hop aroma with light malt. Slightly hazy gold color with a decent white head. Thin to medium body with sharp carbonation that turns creamy. A little watery, not much hop, could be a faint hit of "hot" hop spice. Finishes a little herby. Fairly clean. Not much to it, all in all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2008
at 20:27
7.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle - Pours clear amber/orange with a one finger white head. The aroma is of citrus hops and caramel malt. The flavor is a solid balance of these hops and malts that isn’t terribly interesting, but it’s good. This beer is medium bodied and has the characteristic long, bitter IPA finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2008
at 13:19
5.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
bottle - The schnozberries taste like schnozberries! I had to say it. I’ve written enough reviews where I state the blindingly obvious and I’m going to do so again. Yep, this beer smells and tastes of strawberries. It pours slightly hazy yellow with a one finger head. The strawberries aren’t overpowering, but the beer they’ve been added to is quite light so it doesn’t take much to dominate the flavor. It has a light body and is fairly refreshing. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2008
at 13:04
1.8/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
12 oz bottle.....Smells soapy, yuk (sour)...clear copper with an off-white head...its average and it fades quickly....thin and watery, soapy aftertaste...some watery citrus...not good, not good at all..I took just a few sips of this and gave it away...
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2008
at 23:08
4.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Pour is a cloudy yellow with a large white head. Aroma is deffinatly berry with some vanilla. Flavor is where this goes down hill. Very light and watery all around. I detect almost no berry what so ever. Pretty light effort on this one.
Tried
on 04 Apr 2008
at 19:14
6.2/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a caramel-amber color with a large caramel head. The aroma was lightly sweet, fruity and resiny. The flavor was bitter grapefruit with a mild dry malt base. The finish was bitter floral hops. Too dry for my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2008
at 19:19
4.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Not too great. Large, frothy, white head. Ever so slight haze to the yellow body. Aroma = grass + strawberry + cream. Tastes like strawberry yogurt with some fizziness.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2008
at 00:18