Louisiana is our next stop for Christmas beer and we land with our reindeer at Bayou Teche Brewing for their Biere de Noel.
Louisiana Beer – Bayou Teche
Bayou Teche is another small and very Cajun’ outfit.
Like so many others before him, Karlos Knott, the founder of the brewery, tasted quality flavorful beer while in Europe, in Knott’s case, Germany. He was further entranced by the Washington State beer scene that he returned too. That led to home brewing in 1994. Upon returning to Louisiana, Knott and his brothers, who all live on the family farm in Arnaudville, crafted beers to compliment Cajun cuisine and launched Bayou Teche.
LA-31 is their most famous biere but others are on the way like a hefeweizen that will pair with that lovely Cajun’ food.
LA-31
No this isn’t a freeway in Los Angeles. This is a bayou beer.
From Bayou Teche Brewing comes the first bottled batch of LA-31 Biere Pale . Lazy Magnolia is bottling their product because they have no bottling line yet, but that hasn’t stopeed Bayou Teche.
LA-31 is an American version of a Belgian Pale Ale. A late hop addition an American yeast strains give LA-31 a mellow bitterness and intense hop flavor over a continental malt base.
Two other brews are due from their tiny hand-crafted brewery, a dark beer called LA-31 Biere Noire, and a wheat known as Duck Blind Cherry Wood Roasted Wheat Biere. They will only be in kegs for now.