In New Orleans, you won’t just find culture in a museum, you’ll find it in a can. Port Orleans Brewing Company is proof that New Orleans isn’t just a gumbo pot – it’s a fermenter. Ever since the French founded New Orleans in 1718, fun loving people from all over the world have come here, not just to make their imprint, but to have a drink or two. There’s no doubt in our minds that, if the Statue of Liberty were in our port, she’d be holding up a cold one.

Hey! When it’s like 100% humidity like 100% of the time, beer is important. But not just any beer would do then, any more than it will now. For centuries, the Port of New Orleans has been the epicenter of converging ideas and cultural influence. Combine that with our famously unquenchable thirst for po-boys and tall boys, and you have the perfect setting for Port Orleans, a brewery always in pursuit of innovation and exploration. And we’re known as much for giving back as we are for our 6-packs.

In 2017, Port Orleans Brewing Company claimed a stool on the New Orleans beer timeline, joining the new generation of craft breweries who have nudged out the foregone era and the longstanding tradition in this region of mass-produced beers. No longer is boring volume beer good enough. Make way for a new renaissance for true innovation in the craft beer world.

And when it comes to originality, we like to think the tide has turned because of Port Orleans and our neighbor breweries. On our way to becoming the city’s flagship brewery, we’re constantly exploring and releasing something new and something for beer fanatics to get all hopped up about. We are a lab for beermaking, a melting pot of collaboration and imagination. Our young and energetic brew masters – “mixologists of hops, barley and grain” – keep abreast of worldwide trends and have started a few of their own. And here we let tourists and local tasters, beer club members, and craft beer connoisseurs from all backgrounds assist in the ideation process. The result: a fermentation of invention and creativity on behalf of New Orleans’ historically finicky and discerning palates.

Feeding on feedback from the very people who obsess over the suds, it’s always happening at The Port. Stouts, porters, ales, lagers, barley wines, IPAs, sours, saisons, kolsches...there’s no limit to the possibilities, no territory left unexplored. We’re up for anything that sparks a new sensation, anything that gets us juiced.

And while beer is at the heart of what we do at Port Orleans, we do more than beer with heart. POB quenches all kinds of needs in the community. We’re engrained with a purpose. Connected to local causes that matter. With Port Orleans at the bow, New Orleans is getting happier all time.