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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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
2 week old can A: Unattractive murky washed out pale yellow with a short but lasting white head. S: Grapefruit or lemon pith and zest, floral notes and wafer cookie. T: Pungent herbs undercut floral and citrus hops, then lightly sweet woody and sugary malts lead back into a green herb aftertaste. M: Prickly carbonation without hop burn. Light feel and clean finish. O: OK but not impressive. A near miss.
Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2024 at 22:14

3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 1 Texture 2 Overall 1
Cheap bottle from total wine. Odd orange color with lots of haze and just maybe a weird purple tint. Yea, it smells like a heavy IPA. This is a triple IPA according to the label, but I don't see any mention of fruit in it so why is it styled as a fruit flavored beer on RB? But hey, I see the description here days they add raspberry puree into it, so be it, I guess. When I taste it, I have no indication of fruit. I know there seems to be a hint of color in this, maybe from the berry, but you cannot find it in the taste. It must be buried deep down under all those terribly on style hops. Lots of juicy terrible hop hop hops. Now, back to the IPA; its pretty boozy, lots of warming warning sensations down to the tummy. Mouthcoating hops with barely any carbonation. Nasty nellie of a bastardly dastardly bitter IPA. Got to be one of the most bitter IPA I've had from Abita. Quite a big time one sided ball of blistering IPA. You like IPA, better put this on yer bucket list, its quite a manly drink, hehehheh. Yea abita, calling this a triple IPA nails it, but its probably just a double imperial IPA. There, you have it. Blah. Somebody get me a cheap pale lager for a chaser, I can't taste nuttin but bitterness for the last half hour. Mr. Yuk has visited my palate.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2024 at 21:36

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 9
Can from Vin Carre in NOLA. Pours gold with a decent white head. Aroma seems pale stone fruit. Medium body. Slightly undry and more than moderately bitter. Flavor is citrus with a zestiness and peach. Very good.
Tried from Can on 23 Feb 2024 at 01:54

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Magnolia in NOLA. Pours gold with a white head. Light citrus aroma. Medium body or so. Flavor is mild citrus with bready support. Dry and mildly bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2024 at 01:18

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6
12oz bottle. Sweet, heavy, sugary. Pastry overboard sweetness. Big vanilla. Pretty much the same sweetness as 13-14% beer. Lacks balance, almost begs to be blended with something else. Overall pretty unimpressive.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2024 at 05:04

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz brown squat bottle poured into a glass. Hazy amber with small white head. Aroma is caramel malt, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is caramel malt.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2024 at 01:26

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Lots of chunks and precipitants floating around. Looks somewhat like a hefe and exceot for the cloudy chunks, its actually tinted a little browner than I was expecting, not the look of a wit per se. Has a hefe nose fer sher. Taste is mild and friendly, easy going. I like the hefe and wit styles and this is pretty close. Non insulting and its decent to have a brew that's well made like the old country without any hops in to bastardize it. Good job beetah. Pretty good overall beer drinken experience, could use a few of these bottles.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Feb 2024 at 19:58

5.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 8 Overall 4.5
Lots of vanilla, brown sugar, and cocoa notes, too sweet for such a thin-bodied beer. Vanilla clings to the palate until the very end, offset by the slightest of bitter streaks into the fade. An ice cream sandwich of a beer. Pass.
Tried on 02 Feb 2024 at 01:19

5.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle. Clear pale yellow gold. Decent mild fruity berry aroma. First taste impression is old style domestic dull berry lager fruit beer in the traditional american historical nature. Goes down real easy, it just that its rather dull, drab, dreary, subdued and unexciting except for the unsweetened berry in there. One good thing is there's no bitter or astringent hop bite in this, keeps it rather drinkable and almost refreshing. Goodly amount of co2 keeps your mind off the laid back attitude and makes it somewhat interesting. Stoic.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2024 at 19:48

5.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Peanut butter aroma, unripe berry on the edges. Clear amber, thin head. Very sweet malt, peanut overtones, no roast. Creamed corn finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Unbalanced.
Tried on 21 Jan 2024 at 21:04