24 Best Bars in New Orleans

"Small breweries are a familiar fixture in even the smallest cities by now. There’s a few to choose from in New Orleans, although it’s a place where the movement took a while to catch on given its deep marination in cocktail culture. The leafy residential environs of the Lower Garden District weren’t an obvious location for what was the city’s first nano-brewery, but brewer Scott Wood isn’t shy of challenges or doing things a little differently, and this scrappy ‘dive-brewery’ that has slowly evolved, expanded, and has an undeniably strong reputation. The menu at the time of writing had about 25 beers on tap; to relative brewing laymen, most breweries seem to roll out endless IPAs thanks to its continued cultural dominance, and although this beer species is represented here, your palate can definitely enjoy a little more variety—chocolate stouts and milds, sours and pale wheats, all line up, mostly with amusingly pithy names (‘Existence is Elsewhere’) and with a seasonally-sensitive list. You’ll find much to delight in and explore whenever you choose to visit." - Paul Oswell, Andrew Parks