Two craft beer festivals on Saturday, Nov. 16

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FestivALES will feature 30 beers from 30 breweries to showcase some of the best beer available in New Orleans! Your $30 ticket includes 24 unique 3 ounce pours. Each venue will have one additional beer sample available for purchase. Meander down Freret Street, stopping along the way to watch football, listen to music, or dine at one of the host venues. Once you check-in, there is no schedule or route. You can go to any venue at any time between 12pm and 6pm to sample their beer offerings.

Check-in will take place from 12pm - 2pm at Freret Publiq House, located at 4528 Freret Street. There you will sign a waiver and pick up your tasting passport. You must check-in to participate. Ticket price will increase on event day.

PARTICIPATING VENUES:
Ancora
Dat Dog
Gasa Gasa
Midway
Publiq House
Wayfare

Breweries include:
Abita, Angry Orchard, Anchor, Bayou Teche, Blue Moon, Brooklyn, Chafunkta, Covington Brewhouse, Green Flash, Leinenkugel, Lazy Magnolia, Magic Hat, New Belgium, Nola, North Coast Brewing, Ommegang, Parish, Oreqon (Rouge), Red Brick, Schmaltz, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, St. Arnold, Steigl, Stone, Sweetwater, Southern Tier, Tin Roof.

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Jim Barrett and Joel Ohmer of Houma want you to know that craft beer is getting serious down in the bayou. The longtime friends founded the Bayou Beer Society last year when Ohmer says they realized “if you wanted to do anything with beer, you really had to go to New Orleans.” They decided to change that through education, advocacy and events.

The society is holding its first event, the Bayou Beer Festival, Sat. Nov. 16 on the grounds of Houma’s Southdown Plantation. Organizers suggest arriving as close to the noon start time as possible in order to experience the full array of local and non-local craft beer, as well as homebrew. Tours of the plantation are free for festival attendees, and music will be provided by Soul Creole. All proceeds from the event will go to charities which serve Louisiana veterans.


The Festival’s tickets-for-beer format is based on the annual LA-SPCA beer fundraising event, New Orleans On Tap (NOOT). Louisiana breweries will be participating by selling their beer. Bayou Teche is creating a special “Bananas Foster” beer to serve to everyone as they enter the festival. It’s their Biere Noir with banana, brown sugar, chocolate, cinnamon and vanilla.

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