Greetings Hopfools,
Several friends brought to our attention the recent unveiling of the “Louisiana Craft Brewery Trail” by the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. This website, developed in cooperation with the Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild, highlights Louisiana’s current craft breweries and provides a bit of background about each brewery as well as additional activities/points of interest in the nearby area.
I did notice that two Louisiana craft breweries were missing from the mix, Red River Brewing Company and Great Raft Brewing. Both of these breweries are located in Shreveport, in the north west corner of the state. And while they appear to be pretty far along in the process I suspect that the omission of these two breweries was due to the pending status of their permits and look forward to seeing their inclusion on the Louisiana Craft Brewery Trail shortly. If you haven’t checked out the websites for these two breweries then I suggest that you do. The blog from Great Raft Brewing is great and it has really been fun to follow their progress.
In the meantime, we are still waiting to hear the outcome of the business plan contest from our course in Bend, OR earlier this month. In the meantime, various RFPs for equipment are trickling in, we’re submitting our LLC documents this week, the documents for the SBA are coming together and we continue to scout locations for a location in the New Orleans area.
As an aside, tasted our session IPA last night and was quite please; will need to change the mash schedule somewhat and add a bit more malt character but overall quite nice.
This weekend we’re brewing our pale ale to replenish our stores before the first tap for our session IPA (not everyone is concerned about ABV or calories).
Cheers,
Mark
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