NOLA Brewing Releases First Seasonal Ale
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA–MARCH 9, 2010 – NOLA Brewing, a local craft brewery located in New Orleans, Louisiana will release their first seasonal beer, a French Saison style ale named Hurricane Saison, on March 16. This selection, available in 5 gallon kegs, as well as 2.25 gallon draft packs that are available directly to consumers, will run through the mid-June.
This seasonal ale will be brewed with five different types of malts, including one un-malted raw wheat, pilsner and aromatic malts. Hurricane Saison contains three types of hops: Sterling, Kent Goldings, and Styrian Goldings. While most Belgian ales don’t usually have this many hops, founder Coco says, “Much of the hops in Hurricane Saison are for aroma rather than for added bitterness, and the use of various wheat malts makes for a smooth, balanced beer.” NOLA Brewmaster, Peter Caddoo also uses a unique blend of spices added in the kettle that includes cumin, black pepper and grains of paradise.
This beer’s name comes from first the word Saison is the Flemish word meaning “season” and was originated in Wallonia in southern Belgium. This style of ale was brewed at the beginning of winter in a farmhouse brewery in order to quench the thirst of the farmhands who worked the fields in the summer. These beers had to survive the spring heat without becoming too infected by summertime, which is why this type of beer is fermented at higher temperatures.
The next seasonal NOLA beer will be released in time for Summer 2010, and will be called 7th Street Wheat – an unfiltered wheat beer dry-hopped with lemon-basil.
New Orleans Lager and Ale – a.k.a. NOLA (also a nickname for New Orleans, Louisiana) is the only commercial brewery located in the city of New Orleans and just celebrated its one year anniversary on March 3, 2010. Coco says, “I am passionate about bringing the entrepreneurial spirit of New Orleans to life and the community response to NOLA Brewing has been tremendous since our launch in 2009. The introduction of this seasonal beer, Hurricane Saison, is the first of many seasonal beers you will see from NOLA Brewing.”
NOLA Brewing has three additional fine ales distributed throughout Louisiana. NOLA Blonde, NOLA Brown and Hopitoulas IPA.
For more information visit: http://www.nolabrewing.com or follow them on twitter at @NOLABrewing.