Dixie Brewing Company
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| Dixie Brewing Co. | |||||||||||
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 A Post-Katrina Dixie Beer contract brewed by Joseph Huber Brewing, Monroe, WI |
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| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana United States |
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| Owner(s) | Joe and Kendra Bruno | ||||||||||
| Year opened | 1907 | ||||||||||
| Annual production | 1,000,000 cases (pre-Katrina)[1] | ||||||||||
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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 October 2009 and the future of the facilities is uncertain. The brand remains in business, brewed under contract by breweries elsewhere.
[edit] Pop culture
The Dixie Brewing brewery was featured in the 1984 movie Tightrope with Clint Eastwood.
[edit] References
- ^ Ian McNulty (February 20, 2007), Confederacy of Suds, Gambit Weekly, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2007-02-20/feat.php[1]
- ^ "Distinguished Brands". http://www.distinguished-brands.com/dixie.php. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dixie Brewery |
- Temporary Dixie Home Page
- 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
