Abita Purple Haze (Draft) - The Spit or Swallow Beer Review
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Felix's Restaurant & Oyster Bar
739 Iberville St New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 522-4440 Creole Restaurant, Oyster Bar Restaurant
Purple Haze
Purple Haze is a lager brewed with real raspberries added after filtration. It is brewed with pilsner and wheat malts and Vanguard hops. The berries add a fruity aroma, tartly sweet taste and a subtle purple color and haze...you may see fruit pulp in the beer.
This beer is best served with salads or light fruit desserts, such as soufflés or chiffon cakes. Many people enjoy it with chocolate desserts. Purple Haze pairs well with certain cheeses, such as ripened Brie or any dessert made with mascarpone. It's also great paired with entrees prepared with fruit, especially citrus. Consider enjoying Purple Haze alone at the end of your meal as dessert.
Suggested temperature: 38°
Suggested glassware: pint, pilsner, flute or tulip
Beer Profile
ABV: 4.2%
IBU: 13
Color: 8
Nutrition Facts
Calories: 128
Carbs: 11g
Protein: 1.8g
Total Fat: 0g
Packaging:
6 Pack Bottles
12 Pack Case Cans
About Abita:
Founded in 1986, the Abita Brewing Company is nestled in the piney woods 30 miles north of New Orleans.
In its first year, the brewery produced 1,500 barrels of beer. We had no idea what we started. Customers loved our beer! By 1994, we outgrew the original site (now our 100-seat brew pub) and moved up the road to a larger facility to keep up with demand.
We brew over 151,000 barrels of beer and 9,100 barrels of root beer in our state-of-the-art brewing facility. Our lagers and ales are brewed in small batches, hand-crafted by a team of dedicated workers with only the highest ideals of quality. This pride, along with our brewing process, is what creates our great brews.
We are privately owned and operated by local shareholders, many who have been with us since day one.
Abita uses only the finest ingredients -- British and North American malted barley, German and American yeast strains, Pacific Northwest hops and the pure artesian water of Abita Springs.
In Abita Springs, we are blessed with the purest of water. Drawn from our deep wells, our pristine water is not altered in any way.
Abita Beer has no preservatives, additives or stabilizers and is cold filtered. The result is beer that is the finest and freshest tasting as proven by our loyal customers and great chefs of the south who use Abita Beer in their recipes.
Abita Springs:
For centuries the local Choctaw Indians knew about the healing powers of the water found in what is now known as Abita Springs.
This story is of a young Spaniard named Henriques who lived in Louisiana during the late 1790s. While hunting along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, he met a beautiful Choctaw girl and persuaded the chief to allow them to marry. After bringing her home to New Orleans, Henriques watched his wife grow pale and weak, and soon he realized that she was very ill.
None of the local doctors could cure her so Henriques finally consulted the Choctaw's medicine man. The young woman was carried to the spring and left there with only a hammock, food and a dipper to drink from the spring.
When Henriques returned, to his amazement, his wife was totally well and the water's fame as a curative began to spread.
Word of the wonderful water spread to neighboring communities and in 1887, the first railroad arrived to the area. Boarding houses, hotels and restaurants were soon constructed to accommodate visitors. In 1903, the town of Abita Springs was formally organized and later chartered in 1912.
This small, south Louisiana town is a 20th-Century anachronism. Located in the heart of the piney woods north of Lake Ponchatrain near New Orleans, the town boasts a traffic circle, four churches and two schools. It is the kind of town that hardly exists anymore. Streets are tucked beneath a thick canopy of live oaks flanked by beautiful turn-of-the-century raised cottages.
The town is centered on the historic Tourist Park. Funds donated by the Abita Brewing Company helped restore and revitalize the park. The park houses a museum, amphitheatre, playground, fountain and historic pavilion. The park also serves as a trailhead for the Tammany Trace, a rails-to-trails project that wanders for 30 miles through St. Tammany Parish.
The Abita Town Hall serves as a true community center. The Town Council meets monthly and seniors, scouts, students and many others use the building. Six times a year the traditional roots music of the Abita Springs Opry can be heard and enjoyed.
Louisiana Wetlands: Keeping it Local in Covington
Louisiana is home to some top-notch soul food, so naturally, you'll be inspired to feed your soul. That's exactly why we spoke to Lauren Turner, one soulful singer, and performer you may remember as a semifinalist on the famed American Idol.
Watch as Lauren and Paula, along with our friends Byron and Chad Almquist from Canoe & Trail Adventures, take on a little soul-searching in the greater Covington area in the form of some stellar local craft beer tastings.
- Canoe & Trail Adventures:
- Chafunkta Brewing Company:
- Abita Brewery:
- Old Rail Brewing Company:
- Barley Oak Old World Draught Haus:
- Covington Brewhouse:
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St Tammany Real Estate - Free Concerts at the Trailhead in Mandeville, Louisiana
A brief video of one of the Free Concerts that are provided by the City of Mandeville and is located at the Mandeville Trailhead in Mandeville, Louisiana
More to Explore - NAPSTV - Louisiana North Shore
LOUISIANAʼS NORTH SHORE OFFERS EVERYTHING FROM HIKING AND BIKING THE
BEAUTIFUL TAMMANY TRACE TO ALLIGATOR HATCHING AT INSTA-GATOR RANCH
AND HATCHERY.
VISITORS ENJOY SOME OF THE CULINARY TREASURES AT LA PROVENCE IN LACOMBE OR PALMETTOS ON THE BAYOU IN SLIDELL. GO ANTIQUING AND SHOPPING IN DOWNTOWN COVINGTON. OR DISCOVER A PIECE OF SAINT TAMMANY PARISH HISTORY AT THE LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN MARITIME MUSEUM IN MADISONVILLE.
Audubon Golf Trail
The Audubon Golf Trail was named for naturalist/artist John James Audubon who, enchanted by the natural beauty of Louisiana, painted a number of his famous bird studies here. Coincidentally, all the courses on the trail are members of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for Golf Courses, a program dedicated to protecting the environment and preserving the natural heritage of the game of golf.
Top Ten Attractions at Kew Gardens
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is in Richmond on the outskirts of London, and is one of the most amazing gardens in the world. It has an extraordinary diversity of plants, over 14,000 trees and it is all set within a vast and beautiful landscape layered with history and heritage.
There is always something new happening at Kew Gardens; new festivals, new events, new displays to see and enjoy.
Kew Gardens' Top Attractions featured here are:
Kew's Old Lions
These old trees include the ginko (or maiden hair) tree which is one of Kew's oldest, dating back to 1762 when it was planted by Princess Augusta and Prince Frederick.
Kew Palace
A rich history spanning nearly 400 years, it is also here that the original botanic gardens at Kew began.
The Pagoda
Built in 1762 for Princess Augusta, the Pagoda is open to the public the first time in eight years. Don't miss out on a rare opportunity to climb to the top -- until September 7th 2014.
The Waterlily House
Designed and built in 1852 by Richard Turner, the star in here is the Victoria cruziana, the leaves of which can grow to 1 metre across. We also have the smallest waterlily in the world which no longer exists in the wild -- so we've saved it from extinction.
The Marianne North gallery
Showcasing more than 800 paintings of plants and flowers
The Arboretum
A living library of trees, every tree is a page, every tree has a story - a wealth of information and knowledge.
The Princess of Wales Conservatory
With ten different climatic zones this is the most complex glasshouse at Kew. You can feel the changing environments from the desert to the rain forest.
The Davies Alpine House
Where spectacular alpine flowers grow
The Treetop Walkway
At 18m high, you can walk 100m through the tops of the canopies, experiencing the smells and sounds, and getting a bird's eye view right across the Gardens.
The Palm House
One of the world's most extraordinary glasshouse structures, it was built in the 1840's and constructed in a way that meant no supporting columns were needed. It is an amazing and iconic building, both in its design and in the plants that grow inside it.
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Louisiana Roadside Attractions - 10 Places You May Not Know about
This channel will take a look into history, movies, TV shows, comics, haunted places, and other areas of entertainment to give you 10 facts or places that you may not know. This video is on Roadside Attractions in Louisiana.
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Engaging people for nature - This is our EVS
Engaging People for Nature is a video project developed by 8 EVS volunteers located in 7 different Lithuanian Natural Parks ????
Our aim is to talk about volunteering, nature, sustainable tourism, solidarity, practical info about European Voluntary Service and European Solidarity Corps.
We hope it will be helpful to next volunteers and to everyone who wants to know more about this amazing country and its hidden treasures!
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Calling All Cars: Muerta en Buenaventura / The Greasy Trail / Turtle-Necked Murder
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
Suspense: Blue Eyes / You'll Never See Me Again / Hunting Trip
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements.[1] Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and/or terror. Good thriller films tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.[2][3]
Common subgenres are psychological thrillers, crime thrillers and mystery thrillers.[4] Another common subgenre of thriller is the spy genre which deals with fictional espionage. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The horror and action genres often overlap with the thriller genre.[5]
In 2001, the American Film Institute in Los Angeles made its definitive selection of the top 100 greatest American heart-pounding and adrenaline-inducing films of all time. To be eligible, the 400 nominated films had to be American-made films, whose thrills have enlivened and enriched America's film heritage. AFI also asked jurors to consider the total adrenaline-inducing impact of a film's artistry and craft.[6][7]
Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as an early prototype of the thriller. One of the earliest thriller movies was Harold Lloyd's comic Safety Last! (1923), with a character performing a daredevil stunt on the side of a skyscraper. Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang helped to shape the modern-day thriller genre beginning with The Lodger (1926) and M (1931), respectively.[2]
The Enormous Radio / Lovers, Villains and Fools / The Little Prince
The Enormous Radio is a short story written by John Cheever in 1947. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947 issue of The New Yorker and was later collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. The story deals with a family who purchases a new radio that allows them to listen in on conversations and arguments of other tenants living in their apartment building.
According to Alan Lloyd Smith, author of American Gothic Fiction - An Introduction ISBN 0-8264-1595-4, a concept of domestic abjection is one that disturbs identity, order, and system. This is exactly what the new radio did in the Westcott household. When Mrs. Westcott saw the new radio in the large gumwood cabinet, she did not like the enormousness of it. The Gumwood cabinet is a dark cabinet and did not fit in with the living room furnishings and colors that Irene had personally chosen. This cabinet is dark and ugly, bringing darkness into the living room and their lives. Eventually, Irene identifies herself with the object.
Another gothic concept of The Enormous Radio is the element of buried secrets. Both Jim and Irene begin to recognize that there is tension in their marriage. Irene had many deep dark secrets that she feels guilty about. She has successfully hidden these secrets all these years until the ugliness of the radio brings up her neighbors problems. Irene has suppressed and hidden her feelings to others and herself for a long time. This is the reason she is drawn to the radio, it exposes the inner life of others and eventually hers. Irene identified with the others in the building as her own problems. It is ironic that the thing purchased to bring joy to the Westcott's life did nothing but cause trouble between them. Secrets revealed are sometimes not able to be handled well.
Alan Lloyd Smith also identifies Domestic Gothic as,[2] intimately bound up with the idea of the house, gender, and family, which becomes through metaphor, a way of externalizing the inner life of fictional characters.