After Rolling Rock was purchased by Anheuser-Busch, A-B closed the Latrobe, Pennsylvania brewery and moved production of the beer to Newark, New Jersey about a year ago. The Latrobe plant has been taken over by Boston Beer Co. and will be used for making Samuel Adams beers.
Dixie's brewery on Tulane Ave. was still a wrecked shell, damaged more by looting than by flooding, when I visited NOLA earlier this year; the Dixie beers are being contract brewed in Wisconsin until production can resume in New Orleans.
Originally Posted by
anonplz
I used to like Rolling Rock because it was a clean, simple taste but refreshing. It was bought out by a larger brewing house (forget which one) and maybe it's my imagination, but I can detect a different taste which makes it seem more like every other mass-produced beer, in other words, it's still drinkable but nothing special anymore.
There's a New Orleans beer I used to like but I don't even know if they make it anymore, esp. post-Katrina. Dixie or something?
I'm so knowledgable. lol
I do like Sam Adams' wheat ale.