Dixie Brewing Company

Dixie Brewing Company
A Post-Katrina Dixie Beer contract brewed by Joseph Huber Brewing, Monroe, WI
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana United States
Owner(s)	Joe and Kendra Bruno
Year opened	1907
Annual production	1,000,000 cases (pre-Katrina)[1]
Active beers
Name Type Lager Lager Jazz Amber Light Light lager Blackened Voodoo Schwarzbier Crimson Voodoo Ale Amber ale

Dixie Brewery, 2401 Tulane Avenue; post-Katrina photograph

The Dixie Brewing Company is a craft brewery based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dixie Brewing was founded and began production in 1907 and is the only remaining large volume brewery within the city of New Orleans,^[2] a city that once was home to several major breweries (most notably, Falstaff). Several microbreweries and brewpubs exist in the city, and the popular Abita Brewing Company is located nearby.

In 2005, the Dixie Brewery was severely damaged when Mid-City New Orleans flooded from the levee failure disaster during Hurricane Katrina. After the area was dewatered the brewery complex was looted with much of the equipment stolen. Despite early claims that the brewery would be restored, it remains off line as of December 2010 and the future of the facilities is uncertain. The brand remains in business, brewed under contract by breweries elsewhere. The building sits in the footprint of the new Department of Veterans Affairs hospital under construction in New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhood.

The Dixie Brewing brewery was featured in the 1984 movie Tightrope starring Clint Eastwood and in the 1981 movie "Southern Comfort" by Walter Hill the main characters drink Dixie Beer in a Cajun town.

Dixie Beer is briefly mentioned briefly in Brett Easton Ellis' novel "American Psycho".

References

1. ^ Ian McNulty (February 20, 2007), Confederacy of Suds, Gambit Weekly, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2007-02-20/feat.php [1]
2. ^ "Distinguished Brands". http://www.distinguished-brands.com/dixie.php. Retrieved 2007-12-04. 

Also featured in the movie "Southern Comfort" with Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine

External links

• Photos of the abandoned brewery in 2010 (Abandoned USA)
• Brewery Age containing article about Dixie's post-Katrina status from Oct. 2005.
• Article about status and contract brewing from Feb. 2007
• World of Brews Dixie page
• NPR report, June 2006