Beer

[davebr]

I will be going to New Orleans this weekend and I am looking to buy some different beers for a friend. He really likes the Asain beer ASAHI. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for the help.

[Mayhaw Man]

Daaaave,

That's a little general, don't ya think?

I can give you a list of the best beer stores in New Orleans and a list of good beers, but that is still pretty general. Are you looking for things that you might not be able to find in N. LA or just good beer in general?

Brooks

[davebr]

Well I dont know anything about beer. It is my best friends birthday and he likes beer. He is from Maylasia and I just want to get him some beer that he cant get here in N louisiana.

[davebr]

I just went to Martin's and bought one of almost every kind of beer. My friend seems to be very happy with the gift. One cool thing, at the cash register I bought a guide to Neighborhood Restaurants "A guide for the rest of us" for $5.95. It is very cool. I would recommend to anyone seeing it to pick it up.

[bobmac]

A local brewery, Abita, makes several good beers.

[Mayhaw Man]

A local brewery, Abita, makes several good beers.

Yes they do, as a matter of fact.

Try a wheat this time of year, over ice with lemon (yeah, yeah, I know-but it's damn good and extremely refreshing).

[Tremor]

A local brewery, Abita, makes several good beers.

Yes they do, as a matter of fact.

Try a wheat this time of year, over ice with lemon (yeah, yeah, I know-but it's damn good and extremely refreshing).

They make good beers due to the formerly-used expertise of a certain Mr. Mayhaw Man.

The lemon advice; I TOTALLY agree with. Lemon and wheat beer are a perfect match. (Learned this on frequent trips to Seattle.)

On ICE???? NO!!!!

[Mayhaw Man]

Tremor! Long time no hear. Hopefully you have been sucking down plenty of cool malt beverages in the recent 100 plus days in Austin. Ice, in a light bodied wheat beer can be a very good thing. Yes, it certainly waters it down, but it is still a very pleasurable way to drink it.

I'm still hoping to get over your way next month. I'll buy lunch (you can buy dinner )

[Tremor]

I'm still hoping to get over your way next month. I'll buy lunch (you can buy dinner )

You got it!

[Mayhaw Man]

In between we can kill a couple of hours in the bar at the Four Seasons and go watch the bats (I love those bats). That bar is one of the superior places on the planet to enjoy a well mixed anything. In wild and wooly Texas, The Four Seasons Bar in Austin is proof that there are a few people who understand civilized behavior and service beyond BBQ on butcher paper (not that I have a problem with that-bbq and butcher paper, that is).

[JennotJenn]

Mayhaw,

Realize this is an old thread, but I hate to start a new one for this...

'bout how far from the airport is the brewery? I'm coming in on a Sunday in July for a conference and was actually contemplating taking an early flight and renting a car so that I could make the tour at 1. Yeah, I'm probably crazy, thinking about leaving home at 7AM so I can go to a brewery that afternoon. Or not... anyways, I read on the site that it's about 30 minutes from NO, but don't know if that's from the airport side or the other side.

Also, ahem, and perhaps this should go on the beer thread, but does LA have a limit on alcohol content in beer? Because NC limits it at 6% and I always try to pick up some stuff that we can't get here whenever I go to a place without crazy liquor laws.

Jen

[BrentKulman]

Also, ahem, and perhaps this should go on the beer thread, but does LA have a limit on alcohol content in beer? Because NC limits it at 6% and I always try to pick up some stuff that we can't get here whenever I go to a place without crazy liquor laws.

Jen

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Not Mayhaw, but Louisiana does not have a limit on the abv. Only six states have the limit: NC, SC, WV, AL, MS, and AR.

If you are unfamiliar with the Pop the Cap campaign to remove the limit in NC, check out the activities at their website Pop the Cap

If you are so inclined, now is the time to do something about it as there is legislation in front of the NC House to remove the limit. Pop the Cap is urging everyone to write letters to the members of the House Committee as well as their own representative to help get the legislation passed.

[Timh]

Cooter Browns, uptown at the bend, has the largest, (that is not an adequate description) of beer, period. Its collegy but still good.

[bjgeraci]

'bout how far from the airport is the brewery ... I read on the site that it's about 30 minutes from NO, but don't know if that's from the airport side or the other side.

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It's more like 45 minutes because you'll be taking the Causeway across the Lake Pontchartrain, then it's I guess another 15 minutes away once you're over there.

Closer to town, there are several brewpubs in the city. I like Crescent City Brewhouse for their food as well as their beers; Goron Biersch (a national chain) opened up a place near the casino last year; Zea in Clearview Mall and Esplanade mall make their own beers - as well as their own soft drinks; there's a place in MidCity off Canal and Carrollton ("Acadian something" ?) that I think is also a brewpub.

[JennotJenn]

Great information, everyone. Yes, I'm aware of pop the cap. And damn, I'm bad at writing letters to my representatives. But I guess I should bite the bullet and do it, otherwise I can't complain.

And I don't know what part of town Cooter Brown's is in, but I'll go out of my way to shop at a place with the word "cooter" in the name. Cooter.*

As far as LA goes, I'm thinking about flying in on Saturday instead of Sunday morning. Right now it's about $50 cheaper to fly on Sat instead of Sunday, and even though I'll have to pay for a hotel room for one extra night (something super cheap near the airport), it'll come to about the same amount of money for an extra day. So I can relax and do the tour and take my sweet time.

This is going to be a food nerd convention (International Food Technologist), so expect to see us everywhere food nerdery can be found (I think there's a rum distillery tour and a hot sauce factory tour planned, the brewery would be a sneaking off and doing my own thing thing). Anyway, also good info on the brewpubs. I'm sure it'll be so hard to drag a bunch of food science grad students into them...

*Yes, I'm aware a cooter is a turtle (soft shelled, non?), but I still think it's funny because I'm like, 12.

[Mayhaw Man]

Actually, in redneck parlance, cooter has a sexual connotation that has nothing to do with turtles.

Now, for something completely different:'

The brewery will take you about an hour to get to from the airport. It's an interesting tour with unlimited free beer. How can you beat that.

Zea, in Metairie, is on your way in from the Airport on Veterans Blvd (right down from my office). The food is good and the beer is better. A very nice guy set up all of the brewing equipment and helped develop the recipes. A really nice guy. I reccomend Zea. THose sodas are really good as well. Flavorful and out of hand levels of carbonation.

Gordon Biersch is across the street from the Casino. They have, IMO, the best beer of any chain out there. Nice place.

Crescent City Brewhouse has pretty good food and one really, really good beer and sometimes more than one (they rotate them out). I really like their Red Stallion. Wolfram Kohler, their brewmaster, is a great guy and a Weinstaphen trained brewer and worked all over the world before settling in New Orleans and redoing the old Steinburg Fur building, at an incredible cost, to open the brewpub. Free music every night as well. It's in the Quarter on Decatur. Conveniently located right across from the old Jax Brewery site (now a shopping center).

Hope this helps.

[JennotJenn]

Actually, in redneck parlance, cooter has a sexual connotation that has nothing to do with turtles.  

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Hee, that's what the "it's funny because I'm 12 was for" (because I have the mentality of oh, a 12 year old when it comes to humor...make that a 5 year old, 'cause I still think fart jokes are funny, too). There's a hilarious story about my sister-in-law getting drunk, dropping a cigarrette in her lap and screaming "my cooter's on fire!!" Cooter. Ahem. Anyway.

And no, you can't beat a free tour with free beer. Really. It's been scientifically proven.

I think my biggest problem is going to be choosing from your list, Mayhaw Man. Holy dammit Christmas man, you make them all sound great. They should hire you for PR. And I think I should try them all!