If you’re like me, then every few weeks you wonder how long it’s been since you wrestled up a crew of friends and made the trek up to the Northshore to go on an Abita Brewery tour.
It was several months ago when this thought crossed my mind, and I got a group together and was all ready to go. I went to the Abita site and checked the Visit link for directions and then I saw it: a short message saying that tours were canceled while they renovated the brewery .. and there was no estimated time of completion.
Weeks and months passed with no change to this short and to the point note on their site… the year on the calendar ticked up a number .. Mardi Gras came and went … and still nothing. I was just about to give up hope, after all it had been nearly six months since the tours ended with nary an update when I decided to give the brewery a call to see what was up. My timing couldn’t have been more perfect. Without anymore storytelling, here’s the pertinent info:
Abita Brewery Tour Times
Wednesday - Friday @ 2pm
Saturdays @ 11am, 12pm and 1pm
I’m pretty impressed that they’ve added some weekday tours and added an extra timeslot to their Saturday tour.. it’s obvious that Abita keeps getting bigger and they keep adopting the practices of other regional craft breweries.
Welcome back Abita Tours, the only brewery tours in the area that actually serve beer on the premises.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Now be sure to have a beer in each hand for the start of the tour, because after it starts, you might run out… but that’s okay if that happens, you can just run back to get more and catch up with us.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Are the Abita neon Purple Haze signs available for sale?