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
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Thanks to my SS for this one. Pours a clear copper body that supports a chunky head of off-white. Caramel, nuts and honey aroma. Thin oily body. The flavor is light malt with just the slightest bit of bitterness towards the finish. Simple, bland.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2007
at 21:36
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy rosey color with a medium frothy white head that diminishes very quickly. Barely got anything on the nose but a faint rasberry. The taste is a weak rasberry with a sweet finish, very watery. This was a weak fruit beer from Abita.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2007
at 01:28
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Draft: Faint lemon aroma. Hazy amber color, no head, but good lace. It tastes of weak grape soda. Weak grain finish. I need more from a fruit beer to rate any higher.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Dec 2007
at 16:30
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottled at Akkurat, Stockholm. Clear roast red,smallfirm head. Sweet with clean, hard mouthfeel. Evident nutty/woody flavour that I assume is derived from the pecans, Low bitterness. A bit one-dimensional, and the malt profile is well simplistic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2007
at 15:49
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
A darker than average free spirited and easy appearance. Gallant carbonation. Taste is intriguing without being offensive. Meloncholy yet lighthearted. I don’t think this is on par with Rivertowne Last Chance Vienna Lager but it is ceratinly better than Penn Pilsner and Schell firebrick. Serene tranquil finish. Could easily drink again.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2007
at 16:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: An orange copper pour with a nice beige head and good lacing. Aroma is citrus and piney hops, hints of grape. Flavor is citrus hops with a nice caramel malt. Nice little IPA. Thanks Chad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2007
at 08:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle poures a clear medium orange amber with small sandy colored head. Moderately hoppy flaovrs but not bright or sharp. Moderate malt body and lively carbonation. Thanks to Harlequin foe bringing this out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2007
at 22:06
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Short stubby 12 oz brown bottle with a twist off cap. Olfactory is slightly rotten Pennsylvania farm pond water. Nearly hazy pale yellow brew that looks almost wheat in nature. Fairly mild pale lager impressions. Somewhat like the Light version with a little more personality, of course. Decent carbonation, could use more. Cardboard is absent in this one. Not much alky flavors present. Finish is wet watery straw or hay. IMHO, comes on more like a pale yellow american lager, not a premium.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2007
at 16:23
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Twist off cap from a short brown 12 oz stubby bottle. Dirty old water smell, but in a good way. Surprizingly, slightly hazy pale yellow appearance.Looks somewhat like many wheat beers I’ve tried. Wet eldridge straw flavor and palate. Cannot detect much bitterness in the nearly industrial flavor. Amicable carbonation. A background cardboard hint that is remenicent of Coors Gold or N/A. Finish is rather mild and well behaved. Unique washed out aftertaste. Overall, one of the more interesting pale lagers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2007
at 16:06
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Nice semi-hazy amber coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of nuts, malt, light hops and some sugars as well. Light-bodied; Shallow flavour of nuts, malt and very little else come to mind when drinking this. Aftertaste shows some fake sugars, a bit of malt and pretty much nothing else - no spices nor nuts/pecans to speak of. Overall, a pretty bad offering, definitely one to pass up, regardless of what you like. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 17-November-2007.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2007
at 15:21