| Dixie Brewing Company | |||||||||||
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A Post-Katrina Dixie Beer contract brewed by Joseph Huber Brewing, Monroe, WI |
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| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana United States |
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| Owner(s) | Joe and Kendra Bruno | ||||||||||
| Year opened | 1907 | ||||||||||
| Annual production | 1,000,000 cases (pre-Katrina)[1] | ||||||||||
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The Dixie Brewing Company is a craft brewery based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dixie Brewing was founded and began production in 1907 and is the only remaining large volume brewery within the city of New Orleans,[2] a city that once was home to several major breweries (most notably, Falstaff). Several microbreweries and brewpubs exist in the city, and the popular Abita Brewing Company is located nearby.
In 2005, the Dixie Brewery was severely damaged when Mid-City New Orleans flooded from the levee failure disaster during Hurricane Katrina. After the area was dewatered the brewery complex was looted with much of the equipment stolen. Despite early claims that the brewery would be restored, it remains off line as of December 2010 and the future of the facilities is uncertain. The brand remains in business, brewed under contract by breweries elsewhere. The building sits in the footprint of the new Department of Veterans Affairs hospital under construction in New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhood.
The Dixie Brewing brewery was featured in the 1984 movie Tightrope starring Clint Eastwood and in the 1981 movie "Southern Comfort" by Walter Hill the main characters drink Dixie Beer in a Cajun town.
Dixie Beer is briefly mentioned briefly in Brett Easton Ellis' novel "American Psycho".
Also featured in the movie "Southern Comfort" with Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine