Hello one and all, today is Tuesday and we all know what that means, FAT TUESDAY!!! Ah the joy of partying for no reason while others party to repent for 40 days. Anyway, today concludes the double fist drinking that I’ve been doing over the past few days, today ends with the second typical New Orleans mixed drink, The Hurricane and Bayou Teche Biere’s Courir de Madri Gras. The beer is a hoppy blend from our friends to the east. Straddling the line between an IPA and American Pale Ale, this brew sports a nice hoppy aroma and taste. No so much in the line of fruit filled hops but more of the skunky hops that are common in main line IPAs. Delicious none the less, the flavor of this isn’t really that special for this line of beers and, sadly, falls into the pack of identical pale ales. If given the choice, I will choose the Abita Mardi Gras next year and stick with other Bayou Teche brews.
The mixed drink is another mainstay that many associate with the city of New Orleans. The Hurricane, created in the 1940’s by Pat O’Brien, the drink was more of a way to rid his business of less popular rums than anything else. Ever the city to embrace something new and different, the sweet drink caught on and has been a staple of tourist ever since. The drink combines several types of rum (usually white, dark and 151 or spiced), passion fruit juice (fruit punch words just as well), OJ, and grenadine syrup. The drink is easily drunk and is one of those you don’t feel right away and are on your third one before the first hits. To me, Pat O’Brien’s is a fabulous courtyard filled with people and sights of New Orleans. While I have dropped drinking Hurricanes on my visits to NOLA and moved on to the hundreds of other libations and cocktails that city provides, this is the quintessential modern New Orleans beverage.
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