Dixie and Crawfish

[Le Ray]

Well, if you haven't tried these two together...you're missing out....




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[surfadelic23]

Mmm crawfish! My local seafood guy brings em in from LA. Will have to hit there on the way home! Hope they're still in season...

[Le Ray]

Sorry man....they start to go out at the end of May. This is when their shells become hard. The season is usually from January to May. You can still get them frozen..

[wortchillergoal]

The Blue Tusk used to serve Crawfish. I spent many a later afternoon enjoying beer and crawfish.

[skahtboi]

Want a beer that really works with a platter of crawfish? Try a Victory Prima Pils. Now that's a combination.

[surfadelic23]

Ugh, yeah I thought they might be out of season... With so many seafoody options down here I think I'll be ok! I think sdstone crabs come back in next month!

[corkybstewart]

Originally posted by surfadelic23
Ugh, yeah I thought they might be out of season... With so many seafoody options down here I think I'll be ok! I think sdstone crabs come back in next month!
We spent a week on the beach in AL last month and had a crab trap on the bay side of the island. We got about a dozen crabs per day and about 1/3 were stone crabs. I grew up there and had never seen one so I didn't realize you're supposed to keep one claw and throw them back. I think all the debris from Hurricanes Ivan in 2004 and Katrina really helped the crab population in Mississippi Sound, there were hundreds of houses on the island that got washed into the Sound and so there are lots of hiding places.

[chazwicke]

While I enjoy crawfish and all seafood. I'm happy that today is the official start of Oyster season. I LOVE raw oysters.

[HogieWan]

Dixie is no longer a true Louisiana product. It is contract brewed out of state after the recipe was tweaked by Covington's Heinerbrau. Apparently, Heiner didn't have the bottling capacity, even though they had the brewing cap.

[jesskidden]

Originally posted by HogieWan
Dixie is no longer a true Louisiana product. It is contract brewed out of state after the recipe was tweaked by Covington's Heinerbrau. Apparently, Heiner didn't have the bottling capacity, even though they had the brewing cap.

Dixie has a pretty good reason why it's "no longer a true Louisiana product"- Nine feet of water after Katrina and then having the brewery looted afterwards and, as noted below, they announced the contract late last year.

http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-003067.php

Below is story where the reporter was touring the ruined brewery with the owners and they could hear looters ripping out copper and stainless steel while they were in the brewery (you can listen to the 9 minute story)=

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5447793

Hopefully the money from the contract brew will help them rebuild (altho' Dixie's been on life support for decades) and since their products are shipped all over the country, using a bottling contractor does make sense. According to the Brewers Assoc. Dixie had an output of 38.000 bbl in 2004 (last full year)- would Heiner have that sort of excess capacity?

I agree that it would be nice if they at least had the draught brewed locally - altho', I gotta say I was shocked at not being able to find ANY Dixie when I went to NOLA a decade or so ago- even went down to the brewery looking for their "beer garden" (which was in an old loading area IIRC) but it was chained up tight. I found a bottle of Blackened Voodoo at the gift shop at the Oak Alley plantation- and it was stale. (We had fresher on the shelf in NJ). For that matter, I couldn't understand why JAX (owned by Pearl, now Pabst) wasn't all over the town considering that "free advertising" they have the with the old brewery right there in the French Quarter.

[corkybstewart]

Originally posted by chazwicke
While I enjoy crawfish and all seafood. I'm happy that today is the official start of Oyster season. I LOVE raw oysters.
When we got to our beach house in Alabama in July the first thing my BIL noticed was a small oyster reef just offshore on the bay side of the island. He immediately "harvested" a bucket full to enjoy right there on the beach. I was kind of hesitant to eat beach oysters but they were very good and nobody got sick. Later we bought a 75 pound bag and ate them raw at both lunch and dinner for 3 days plus the wife and I made oysters rockefeller, fried oysters and an oyster stew for them to try.

[HogieWan]

Originally posted by jesskidden
Dixie has a pretty good reason why it's "no longer a true Louisiana product"- Nine feet of water after Katrina and then having the brewery looted afterwards and, as noted below, they announced the contract late last year.

I totally agree, but they should change the packaging that states Dixie been brewing in New Orleans since 1907. Dixie is a subpar beer, Abita isn't that far ahead except for a couple beers that stand on their own. BTW, I just found Heinerbrau Marzen in bottles today.