E-Malt.com News article: USA, LA: Bayou Teche Brewing releases Saison d’écrevisses

Bayou Teche Brewing is releasing a product that’s likely the first beer expressly crafted to pair with boiled crawfish. Saison d’écrevisses, crawfish season ale, is a limited edition beer that pays tribute to one of south Louisiana’s legendary signature meals, theadvertiser.com reported on February, 5.

The beer is brewed as a Saison - a centuries old Belgian style of farmhouse ale. The new beer is the first in Bayou Teche’s new Lagniappe Series of limited-release beers.

Saison d’écrevisses is a Belgian-style Saison available in 22-ounce, Belgian-style bottles and on draft.

“We wanted to put this beer in bigger bottles so you won’t have to make as many trips to the ice chest,” said Gar.

Saison beers are becoming quite popular. Nationally, many micro-breweries offer up at least one version of this very complex style of beer.

“We may be the only brewery in America who has our own crawfish pond,” said Karlos Knott, one of the brewery’s founders. “Most weekends during the season we boil the catch from my brothers Byron and Dorsey.”

Saison d’écrevisses is available during the traditional crawfish season (January to May) across Louisiana. The brewery expects to be able to offer the beer soon to their distributors in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and New York.


08 February, 2013