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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5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Deep brown with an awesome head. Smells of slight coffee and caramels... nice, but kinda ordinary. Taste is thin and... well.. milklike. Aftertaste/feeling is more like having just had a White Russian than a beer. Where I enjoy a White Russian from time to time, I don’t care for my beers leaving that aftertaste.
Tried on 07 May 2004 at 20:08

2.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
Light hazy yellow, small head. Nothing special in appearance. Smells like any cheap macro- beer tent smelling. Grassy taste, and kinda plain... nothing special whatsoever about this beer. May as well drink whatever beer the media decides to force down our throats, because this is no better.
Tried on 07 May 2004 at 19:24

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Appearance is cloudy golden, with a very nice head. Aroma is NICE- thick raspberries. Tastes very wheaty- with only a hint of fruit... nothing all that special. The smell is the best part- and that’s quite nice.
Tried on 07 May 2004 at 17:05

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3
Amber, with a small head. Very average looking. Smells coppery and bready. Tastes of copper... with not much else going on. Bland, boring, run-of-the-mill anyman’s beer here.
Tried on 07 May 2004 at 17:00

4.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Clear amber colour with a frothy white head. Aroma of canned corn, slight hops and some malt. Light to Medium-bodied; Sweet caramely flavour with malty hints. Aftertaste clean with some malt bitterness. Overall, not horrible, but not reccomended! Thanks to Phil (haddon90) for splitting this bottle with me! I got this twelve ounce bottle from Beers of the World in Rochester, New York and sampled it on 12-March-2004.
Tried from Can on 03 Apr 2004 at 03:03

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 4
Pours a nice cola brown. First thing you notice is the big tan fluffy head. Looks like a stout but drinks like the ale it is. Flavor is a combo of chocolate and coffee. No real after taste to speak of. It could use a little something on the way down. A decent brew.
Tried on 11 Feb 2004 at 19:06

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
This is both a fruit beer and a "gimmick" beer which is how I categorize anything that tries to grab market share with it's name, label or special unnecessary ingredient. Fair beer but not for me thanks. Try the Turbo Dog instead.
Tried on 22 Jan 2004 at 10:38

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
On Draught. This is a very respectable brown. Subtle sweetness that is in no way overbearing and balances well with it's hops. It ends with a dry finish. Nice beer.
Tried on 03 Jan 2004 at 14:50

3.5/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Pale blonde & clear. Appley, slightly wheaty aroma. Slightly crisp palate. Refreshing but rather bland - there just isn't a lot going on here.
Tried on 01 Jan 2004 at 14:42

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Amber coloured with malty nose. But the beer as defaults. DMS in mouth with some vegetable (celery) taste to it. My recollection of this beer is that it was better.
Tried on 24 Nov 2003 at 21:42