New Orleans Beer:: A Hoppy History of Big Easy Brewing

by Jeremy Labadie, Argyle Wolf-Knapp, Kirk Coco (Introduction), David Blossman (Foreword by)

Overview

New Orleans is a city where making sure you have a good meal in your belly and a strong drink in your hand is of the utmost importance. Recently, one drink has been getting more and more attention in New Orleans: beer. The craft brewing revolution of the last 30 or so years has caught hold here, creating what is only the latest chapter in New Orleans's illustrious love affair with boozy concoctions. From old-school breweries like Jax, Regal and Dixie to craft brewers like Abita, NOLA and Bayou Teche, join authors Jeremy Labadie and Argyle Wolf-Knapp to enjoy the first comprehensive history of brewing in New Orleans—a history 287 years long and as wide as the Mississippi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626192485
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	03/04/2014
Series:	American Palate
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,140,461
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Labadie, aka The Beer Buddha, is a graduate of Tulane University. He has been on a continuous legal beer journey since 1996. He has a somewhat popular New Orleans beer blog called the Beer Buddha, which he has been writing since 2008. He currently lives in New Orleans with his wife Aaron, her three large dogs and their homebrew-loving seven-year-old daughter Evangeline. This is his first and probably last book. Argyle Wolf-Knapp is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers. He has worked as a chef for over a decade in New York and currently works as a floor captain and supervisor at the famed Commander's Palace restaurant in New Orleans. Over the last thirty years, he has researched and reproduced various beers, ales, meads and foods from historical sources going back as far as Apicius. He's still a bit enamored by Elizabethan food and brewing. This is his first book. Kirk Coco is a native New Orleanian and CEO of NOLA Brewing. David Blossman is the president of Abita Brewing Company.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Blossman 9

Preface 11

Acknowledgements 17

Introduction Kirk Coco 21

Part I L'Histoire

1 A Short History of Beer in New Orleans and America 24

2 The Breweries of New Orleans, the Brewing Capital of the Old South 30

A Concise Time Line of New Orleans Brewery Events, 1726-Present, with Other Events 51

3 The Craft Brewing Movement in Louisiana 54

Home Brewing in the Crescent City 60

Beer Writers and Bloggers in the Big Easy 67

Part II The Guides

4 Ale and Beer 101: A Primer to the Glorious Suds 70

5 Greater New Orleans Beer Guide 74

6 Touring the Existing Breweries of New Orleans 89

Part III Lasniappe

7 The First Beer to Be Delivered by Air Donald Roussin Kevin Kious 94

8 Recipes-Because This Is Louisiana, After All 96

9 Brewing Terminology 109

Afterword 115

Notes 117

Bibliography 121

Index 123

About the Authors 127