Faubourg Brewing Co.

Regional Brewery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Made By The Water

Established in 1907

Contact
3501 Jourdan Rd., New Orleans, LA, LA 70126, United States
Description
Dixie Brewery opened shop on a vacant lot on Tulane Avenue in New Orleans in 1907. It produced the flagship brand as well as others for 99 years until Hurricane Katrina devastated the facility in 2005. Finally, it’s coming back home.

By late 2019, Dixie will restore all brewing production to the city of New Orleans in an 85,000 square foot facility in New Orleans East. It will house a 100-barrel brewhouse as well as a 15-barrel craft system for the creation of new beers. By early 2020, Dixie will be open to the public to tour the facility, the production process, learn more about its history and sample its many tasty brews.

Committed to making our home more unified, welcoming and resilient for future generations, the brewery was renamed Faubourg Brewing Co. in 2020 as a tribute to the diverse neighborhoods that flavor our gumbo-pot home. Faubourg — pronounced “FO-burg” — is a French word that we New Orleaneans often use interchangeably with “neighborhood.” Our beers have always brought people together, so it’s only natural that we celebrate every corner of our one-of-a-kind city.

Today, Faubourg Brewing Co. is the oldest operating brewery in New Orleans. We’re locally owned and operated, proud of our perseverance, and more excited than ever about what our future holds. See you around the neighborhood!

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3.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 3
Bottled (from K Citymarket, Vaasa). Golden colour, small white head that disappears quickly. Aroma is grains, cereals, butterscotch as well as some rather sweet notes. Flavour is grainy, a bit alcoholic sweetness, mild hops and quite big on the butterscotch.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Oct 2009 at 10:09

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
1st April 2008 European version. Dark lager. Soft and mild with a pronounced minerally maltiness. Easy going.
Tried on 19 Oct 2009 at 14:43

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Melted caramel in color with a rocky, beige head. Sweet caramel aroma, light chocolate, some nuts. Silky smooth body even though the massive head led me to believe it would be rather carbonated. Caramel flavored. Light brown sugar and the faintest bit of cocoa. Super easy to swig and I didn’t realize I had downed 3/4 of it after just a couple gulps. It’s a decent brew, but nothing outstanding.
Tried on 13 Oct 2009 at 05:19

3.8/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 2 Overall 5
Bottle from Cavie. Pours with a fading white head and a pale yellow body. Aroma of grape, cardboard, fruit and honey. Taste is honey, water and cardboard. Dry, thin and watery. Waste of grain and minimal hops.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Sep 2009 at 20:53

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Cola colored body with a off-white head. Aroma of coffee, currant, leather, dirt, metal and cocoa powder. Taste is grainy, light fruit, dirt, roast and leather. Not outstanding. Dry body and pretty bubbly.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Sep 2009 at 19:10

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 7
Not bad, especially for a light beer. Flavor was a little weird and unbalanced but drinkable. A bit fruity, a bit malty. Like some styles of jazz: a combination of diverse elements thrown together.
Tried on 18 Jul 2009 at 14:27

2.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 1
Pour is a tan with a small white head. Aroma is nothing and flavor follows with a big helping of nothing. Very watery and not worth your time.
Tried on 24 Jun 2009 at 20:27

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
Pour is a bright golden with a small fizzy white head. Faint sweet grain aroma. Flavor is a little better than the average lager with a heavier body and a little hops in the aftertaste. A ok lager and deffinalty worth the novelty alone.
Tried on 24 Jun 2009 at 20:06

4.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
12 oz. bottle. This much I knew going in: a light beer contracted to the quality-minded folks at Minhas, stickered 49¢ in Sam’s end-of-code bin. Yet, slightly better than I’d have expected. Pours a decent head over a light amber color. Smell has some malt and a touch of hop, but also distinct adjunct. Taste starts out okay; then the mouthfeel turns to the typical light beer thinness. No metallic twang as in processed lites, but some corn sweetness against a light hop load. This almost makes it as a light beer just for having some actual beer body. And isn’t Dixie’s brewery rebuilt yet?
Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2009 at 10:45

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Pours deep mahogany into a shaker. Off-white head with recedes quickly to skim surface. Sour, nutty aromas. Thin with sour cocoa upfront. Lasting sour caramel finish.
Tried on 04 Apr 2009 at 18:55