The Boot
Abita Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

I'm from the boot and you need to eat crawfish with this beer not a whole lot of flavor or smell with this beer.

Abita "The Boot : A Louisiana Exclusive"
A genuine small batch local-only Abita beer.
Picked up at Martin's in NOLA.
Batch 19 Pint glass.

Golden bronze with a creamy cap of 1/2 finger. Leaves spots of lacing.

Aroma of bread crust and straw-like bread character. Some slight hay. Honey sweetness. A bit of nuttiness.

Flavor brings heavy handed straw-grass hops and quite a lot of honey bread behind it. It is too heavy handed on the bitterness to be within spec for a Lager or a Kolsch. The straw and grass move out of the way immediately for the bread, but it's always there on every initial sip. Seems like you could chew it like a doughball even though it's not that thick.

Crisp, effervescent, medium bodied, slight starches, slight resins. No heat.

Overall it's decent and probably won't hit the drain, but it's not something I'd purchase again.

If you drink it out of a boot, I'll send you a hallmark card.

Price paid : $1.49 / bottle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a typical golden good old wheat beer. It’s not boozy at all, taste is clean and crisp but nothing out of the ordinary. The froth dies out quiet quickly, the smell is not very detectable, slight malty aromas if you try real hard. Overall pretty average beer

 

Brewed with Kolsch yeast and fermented with Hallertauer Blanc. Ostensibly sold only in Louisiana. A 12 fl oz bottle ran me $1.99 USD at a Rouses Market in New Orleans, LA. Brewed with white wheat, oats, and barley.

4.8% ABV.

Drinks crisp and clean with some Kolsch yeast fruity esters really coming through nicely. Hallertauer Blanc (a daughter of Cascade) ought to throw out a lot of floral and fruity notes, but only getting some mild vague tropical character (hardly any fresh floral flavours). I don't taste the wheat at all.

It's balanced and approachable but wants for better depth of flavour as well as more complexity. Not a Kolsch, not a wheat ale, not a pale ale...just an enjoyable hybrid of all three that is less than the sum of its parts. A pleasant ale from Abita, but not standout work.

C / AVERAGE

 

 

 

 

Had at Mulate’s, New Orleans, on draft into tumbler, and also poured from 12-oz. bottle, no date, into tumbler.

Appearance and aroma are very promising, and, although this Kölsch doesn’t quite deliver on those promises, The Boot is still a nicely drinkable beer.

 

Good overall. Very light and citrusy. Could drink a 6 pack easily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light and crisp, with a biscuity bready flavor. Pretty big malt profile for a kolsh beer, sweet hint of caramel. Solid easy drinking beer from Abita.

 

I tried this at Beer Fest on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. It poured a clear golden with white head that is leaving a spotty lace. The scent had some bitter hop. The taste was white wine like and weird. The mouthfeel is lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it's interesting the description was called a hybrid beer...the bar tender said it was in between an ESb and a pale ale.

 

 

this wasnt my favorite of my recent run through a bunch of abita beers. its a pretty basic kolsch, a little maltier and fuller bodied than i am used to from the best of the imports, and there is a general blandness about it, sort of a boring beer, even for the style, although it does have pretty high capacity for refreshment still, it just didnt really turn me on too much. golden in color with a fluffy white head, aroma of dry bready grain, crackery like pils malt but also more baked and hearty, a pale barley of some kind, and a european mineral profile unique to this style, it definitely smells and tastes german to me in nature. this is a little heavy for the style, not quite as drinkable as i like them to be, but it does finish on the drier side, has a grassy hop complexion that tastes fresh enough to me, and overall is a pretty well made beer, despite not being all that exciting. for me, a kolsch has to be amazing to be worthwhile, and this is somewhat short of that mark, although i have been impressed with abita overall lately...