"The tasting room will be open from 4-8. All three flagships will be on draft. Come enjoy a sample, pint or take a growler fill to-go. Food trucks will be on site, too," says Great Raft's Lindsay Nations.
1251 Dalzell Street
Tasting Room Hours 4-8 pm
Th, Jan 09
Tasting Room Hours 4-8 pm
Fr, Jan 10
Tasting Room Hours 12-8 pm
Sat, Jan 11
Photo Jim Noetzel.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Drafting continues at Great Raft Brewing Tasting Room, Shreveport, Th -Sat, Jan 9 - 11
The Pour: a column in Heliopolis Shreveport Bossier City by Lindsay Nations, Great Raft Brewing
Excerpts from Lindsay Nations' The Pour: New Year’s Resolutions for Beer Drinkers
Introduce someone to craft beer – Show someone that the US is full of creative, talented brewers that are pushing style boundaries and making delicious, enjoyable beers.
Try at least one new beer a month.
Host a beer tasting with friends – Beer is meant to be shared and enjoyed with friends.
Visit a local / regional brewery – There are nine manufacturing breweries in Louisiana, and a handful of them have tasting rooms. Dallas and Austin both have more than a dozen breweries. So, you’ve got options!
Read a book about craft beer – Some of my recommendations include: “Tasting Beer: An Insider’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Drink” by Randy Mosher, “The Complete Joy of Homebrewing” by Charlie Papazian and “The Oxford Companion to Beer,” by Garrett Oliver.
Drink less – Really! Drink less sub-par beer, be selective and drink craft beer. There’s plenty of good beer out there that doesn’t require iceberg expeditions. Pro tip: The colder your beer, the less you taste.
Always drink beer from a glass – Much of what we perceive as taste comes from the aroma. You can’t properly smell a beer if you are drinking from a long neck or can.
- See more at: http://heliopolissbc.com/Article/pour-new-year%E2%80%99s-resolutions-beer-drinkers#sthash.IUPVxwPJ.dpuf
Above: Jim Noetzel's photo of the new Great Raft Brewing Tasting Room, 1251 Dalzell St.
Friday, January 3, 2014
NOLA, Parish, Tin Roof, Bayou Teche, Covington and Abita joined by Great Raft and Red River in Louisiana craft beer pubation
"Last year, Louisiana had six craft breweries: NOLA, Parish, Tin Roof, Abita, Bayou Teche and Covington Brewhouse. By the end of 2013, that number could jump to 10," wrote Times Picayune reporter Todd Price in May, 2013. He continued:
For years, fans of flavorful suds grumbled that Louisiana was a beer backwater. The state only had a handful of breweries. Many of America’s most celebrated beers never crossed our border. As American Craft Beer Week runs from May 12–19 with tastings and events around the state, however, it would be hard to argue that Louisiana isn’t catching up with the rest of the country.
Four years ago, Kirk Coco founded NOLA Brewing on Tchoupitoulas Street. It was, and continues to be, the only package brewery in the city since Dixie Brewing Co. stopped making beer in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. NOLA has already doubled the size of its operation, taking over the building next door. Even Coco is surprised by how quickly the state’s craft beer scene has matured.
“We’re still not Seattle or San Diego,” Coco said, “but we’ve probably grown 10 years in the last four years.”
Read on . . .
With the advent of Great Raft Brewing and Red River Brewing Co in Shreveport, why not a beer blog, too?
As a beer enthusiast and journalist my fate in 2014 is a happy one: to establish a site where Shreveport-Bossier and Louisiana brew news and views are the centerpiece.
For several years I've been entertained by conversations and tastations by home brewmeister Gary Bruns. Over a New Year's Day bottle of his recent brew, Bat Beer (label features a Batmobile), we decided that I should host an outlet for the language of beer appreciation.
My proposition is to host - and edit - the observations of a multiplicity of enthusiasts.
Send your announcements and beer-related copy to trudeau11@gmail.com
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