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Abita Brewing Company

🌍 United States · Regional · Known for Fruit Beer
Known for Fruit Beer

Louisiana's most famous craft brewery, founded in 1986 in Abita Springs on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Named after the local Choctaw word for the artesian spring water that flows beneath the town. Abita was one of America's first craft breweries and remains one of the largest independent craft brewers in the South. Their Purple Haze raspberry lager is one of the US's most recognised craft beers.

4Beers
3Styles
4.7%Avg ABV
1986Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Abita Brewing Company

4 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 4 beers in the catalogue.

Emerging signature · based on 4 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
caramel
2 of 4 beers
fruity
2 of 4 beers
smoothevery beer
4 of 4 beers
crisp
3 of 4 beers

With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied4 beers · 3 style families
Fruit Beer 2Lager 1Dark 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 538 other breweries making Fruit Beer.
Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for Fruit BeerAbita Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
sweet
in all 4 of their beers · typical Fruit Beer brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more sweet than typical.

Across 4 beers in 3 style families, one trait still carries through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 78%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 4
beers above the median
#2523
best ranked beer
Abita Purple Haze

Their beers place in the Top 78% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Abita Brewing Company

Louisiana's most famous craft brewery, founded in 1986 in Abita Springs on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Named after the local Choctaw word for the artesian spring water that flows beneath the town. Abita was one of America's first craft breweries and remains one of the largest independent craft brewers in the South. Their Purple Haze raspberry lager is one of the US's most recognised craft beers.

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