Beer News: Abita New Orleans

Interesting news from Abita:

Abita New Orleans. Coming early 2025. The opening of our secondary location reflects our continued investment in the New Orleans community. We’ve always been a proud supporter of New Orleans vibrant culture through food, music, festivals and community engagement and this new brewery will allow us to further enhance those collaborations with the local community from both sides of the lake. In addition to the brewhouse and tasting room, the facility will be able to host events and community gatherings to support local projects. This initiative, on the heels of the partnership with the New Orleans Saints as their Official Craft Beer, is another example of how we are staying Louisiana True.

According to Abita the location will be 1st and Tchoupitoulas. Address is 2375 Tchoupitoulas.

Support Local Beer: Care Forgot Beercraft

Wife and I drove into New Orleans for the day and made a stop at Care Forgot Beercraft on St Charles Ave. Connor Martinez is over here pumping out great beer. I got the Fo Ya Momemnnem Lager and the Parran's Pale Ale.

The beer list is a wide variety of beers with names that are inspired by Martinez's New Orleans upbringing. In addition to Fo Ya Momemnnem and Parrans they have names like Steiny The Elder(for of course Dan Stein), Dark Roux, Fess and Biere Des Allemonds.

If you get hungry while crushing all these beers they also have a small pizza menu. The pizza's are personal pan pizzas with a sour dough crust and they have Margherita, Pepperoni, Tomato with Anchovy and a Lemon Garlic White. Honestly, at this point if you are opening a brewery and don't have food good luck. It's the best way to keep asses in the seats.

Care Forgot's location is also perfect. Situated next to famed craft beer bar Avenue Pub on St. Charles, it's conveniently on the streetcar line and just a short walk from Courtyard Brewing and Ecology. Mardi Gras is going to be wild for these guys and a perfect spot for craft beer drinkers during parades

Having been away from New Orleans for the past 10 years, it's awesome to see so many breweries still popping up in the city. This day and age it's tough to open a brewery in general and to do it in New Orleans has to be even tougher. If you haven't had a chance to grab some pints from Connor make sure you stop in!

Care Forgot Beercraft

1728 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 7013

Monday Thru Wednesday: 12pm-930pm

Thursday Thru Saturday: 12pm-11pm

Sunday: 12pm-930pm

Cheers!

The Beer Buddha is Dead, Long Live The Beer Buddha

For a long time I considered this blog dead. I've attempted to revive it a couple times but it never felt right. I was no longer living in Louisiana and blogs in general seem to have gone the way of the Sour IPA. One of those things changed and thank God it's not the sour IPA.

I'm back in Louisiana(Baton Rouge) and working for a local beer wholesaler. I'm not exactly sure what I am going to be writing here or if anyone will even care but I have been feeling the urge to write and want to write about beer, breweries and cool places to get beer in the state.

The title says The Beer Buddha Is Dead, Long Live The Beer Buddha and there is a reason why I'm using that. People still call me Beer Buddha when they see me in public and I always jokingly say, "The Beer Buddha is dead". I say it because the guy that used to write this blog is, for lack of a better word, dead. I'd like to say it's a good dead. Basically, he died from knowledge of beer and experience in the industry. I guess that sounds kind of pretentious but the last 10 years I have been working in this industry has changed who I am. I read some of the shit I wrote here and I cringe.

Beer everywhere is hurting right now and the Louisiana beer scene is no exception. Is it just another reset? Too many breweries? People have moved on from beer? I don't know. I have my guesses but that's for another time. For now my goal is to have some fun promoting local breweries and great places to get beer in Louisiana. Stay tuned!

Cheers!