Andrew Godley interview in Country Road Magazine

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I remember looking at a restaurant menu [back in Louisiana] and seeing your basics: Bud Light, Coors Light, Budweiser, then you had a couple of your “ethnic” beers. To show the restaurant was Italian, there was a Peroni. You had Heineken, and then there was Abita Amber. 

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I hit the Internet and had to figure out how to make beer. No shortcuts. There were no breweries I could go work at it. I was working as engineer. We hadn’t had our kid yet, so I had a little more disposable income and I was sinking it all into this. Our entire garage was a home brewery. I had ten different things fermenting at once. I was making all kinds of stuff. All the beers I was making were beers I wanted to play with making a commercially viable beer.

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That’s where I was thinking about the beer and what I was going to do. I was thinking about brand names. What are you going to call it? At one point I was going to call it Fleur de Lis Brewing Company, then I realized that was really lame and came to my senses. I settled on “Parish.”

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If you drive around the sugar cane fields, you see these little signs that say “Canebrake.” Now they call the dirt road that goes down sugar cane fields a canebrake. It’s short, memorable, unique, iconic. I thought, I’m going to make a beer called Canebrake.

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In 2014, we came out with Ghost in the Machine. It was two years in development. I can guarantee you that most breweries were not developing their IPAs for two years.

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We’re going to make a product that’s even more toward the lighter end of the spectrum. It’s called just “Parish” and it’s a pilsner or a lager. We’re going to try to make it as cheaply as possible so we can sell it for a price that competes with Yuengling or Budweiser or those kinds of beers. We want to make a legitimate, local, everyman’s beer.

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I want to brew beer—a lot more of it. I want to build a much bigger brewery. And I want to dominate Louisiana. We’re not doing that yet. We’re on the path, but we’re not doing it yet. So I am definitely not satisfied.

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