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Good news from Great Raft Brewing about their south Louisiana expansion. Great Raft Brewing More Than Doubles Capacity with Two-Phase Expansion Plan – New fermenters in first phase to add 55 percent more production capacity – Second phase targets South Louisiana launch in First Quarter 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lindsay Nat ...

Founders has a new release coming tomorrow (August 1st), and it’s the first lager they’ve brewed in over a dozen years. Dissenter Imperial IPL (India Pale Lager) is the summer release in their Backstage Series. Founders has this to say about Dissenter: We plan to introduce Dissenter, an Imperial India Pale Lager (IPL) brewed with a ...

For those of us that spent our formative beer drinking years at The Chimes Restaurant and Taproom in Baton Rouge, Around the World was a rite of passage. The whole concept was for you to drink 60 different beers from 20 different countries in 6 months. Once completed, you’d get your name on the wall (I can show you mine) to go with a t-sh ...

In exciting news, my cover story in All About Beer has been published! It's a feature length story about Bayou Teche Brewing, its connection to French farmhouse brewing, and a rundown on the history of the farmhouse brewing style.

Breaking: Lagunitas is coming to Louisiana in October. They have signed their distributor contract, and will be here soon. Hallelujah!

With 225 Magazine releasing their Best of Food and Drink winners today, I feel it’s appropriate for me to sum up my thoughts on the best restaurants or bars for craft beer here in the Baton Rouge area. This is strictly my opinion and nobody else’s. So there. The Top 5 1. The Chimes Highland - The Chimes was the origin ...

Last month, Hammond’s own Gnarly Barley Brewing made their debut during American Craft Beer Week in their hometown, on the Northshore, and in New Orleans. Tomorrow marks their debut here in the Capital City. Both Catahoula Common and Radical Rye Pale Ale will be available, and co-owner/brewer Zac Caramonta will be at The Chimes on Highlan ...

Matt Horney (Old Rail), me, Zac Caramonta (Gnarly Barley), and Josh Erickson (Chafunkta) during ACBW at the Avenue Pub. Bad Blogspot! It crashed and wiped out my previous draft of this blog post. However, I now suspect that it may have sucked, so it may be for the best. Spent some time in New England and went to Night Shift Brewing's new ...

Help support the LSU Libraries at an event hosted by Tin Roof Brewing on June 5th. Join us for a night of beer tasting, free food, and a fabulous silent auction, all benefiting LSU Libraries! Tickets are $10 online ( www.lsufoundation.org/Lager4Libraries) and $15 at the door. Food donated by local establishments. A silent auction will take pla ...

Here is some news coming out of Louisiana’s largest craft brewery, Abita. First off, their new summer seasonal, Seersucker Summer Pils will be hitting shelves and taps late this month and into early June. Abita describes it as “a traditional pilsner with a full bodied malt flavor, hop bitterness and a light golden color. It is made ...