Remembering a Year in Craft Beer: 2015

So we closed out 2015 here at the Drunken Parrot Brew Pub with a New Year’s Eve party continuing our tradition of a themed party. Granted not much could top last year’s All-American Craft Beer Fest with an amazing selection of craft beer & food pairings from 6 different states, but we tried. This time we went International and not so much of a craft beer selection. But this article is not about our party, but more so about our year in beer and the introduction of another year in beer!

We decided to create this blog to document our own brews and brewing processes as well as our tastings and experiences with other brews and breweries both locally and in our travels. I should start by introducing Drunken Parrot Brew Pub. In short, we’re a husband and wife team from South Louisiana, I’m Toni, my husband is Steven and we have a teenage son. We also happen to be Parrotheads, and since our home bar is Margaritaville-inspired, it became known as the Drunken Parrot Brew Pub. We really don’t take ourselves too seriously, we just enjoy good beer!

Having tasted over 500 different beers last year, it’s hard to remember all of them and I’m definitely not going to list them all. I just want to highlight a few extraordinary ones that really stood out in case you haven’t tried them.

The Best Beers we tried in 2015:

Neopolitan Milk Stout Parish Brewing Co., Broussard, LA

Stout - Milk / Sweet

Ginger Restoration Pale Ale Abita Brewing Company, Abita Springs, LA

Pale Ale – American

Rogue Farms Chipotle Ale Rogue Ales & Spirits, Newport, OR

Chili Beer

Prose Vs Poetry The Courtyard Brewery, New Orleans, LA

Extra Special / Strong Bitter

Death By Coconut Oskar Blues Brewery, Longmount, CO

Porter – Other

Rare Vos Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown, NY

Red Ale - American Amber / Red

Xocoveza Mocha Stout Stone Brewing Co., Escondido, CA

Stout - Milk / Sweet

The Walking Dead Terrapin Beer Co., Athens, GA

IPA – American

Rougarou Tin Roof Brewing Co., Baton Rouge, LA

Black/Cascadian Dark IPA

Old Mad Joy™ Great Raft Brewing, Shreveport, LA

Baltic Porter

Dark Penance Founders Brewing Co., Grand Rapids, MI

Double Black/Imperial IPA

Nut Brown Ale Blackstone Brewing Company, Nashville, TN

English Brown Ale

Korova Peanut Butter Porter Gnarly Barley Brewing, Hammond, LA

Porter-American

You can find these beers on Untappd!  We use the Untappd App, which can be downloaded at the iTunes store or Google Play, to track and rate our beers.

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