Nora McGunnigle

On the heels of a laughably ridiculously ignorant article that appeared in The Advocate this week (I'll get a little more into detail with that later), my Facebook thread (on which I posted the link to the journalistic travesty) had a very interesting discussion about what counts as a brewery? I realized that I've been segregating brewpubs from my number and I don't think that was right. I think that if you brew beer and legally sell it to people in Louisiana, that should be considered a Louisiana brewery. Therefore, we should count Crescent City Brewhouse, The Old Rail Brewing Company, and, yes, Gordon Biersch, which is a franchise chain but does brew every drop of beer it sells on site. Locally. In New Orleans. The brewers there are talented and work hard. The lines are getting so blurred, more and more each day. Courtyard is a very unique beer business model for the area. Broken Wheel is a brewery added to an existing restaurant so it's now a brewpub (but wa...

This right here, people, is a sign of no respect being accorded to ladies who love beer. CHICK BEER. I was gonna quote some of the more egregiously horrible choice bits of the home page and from their "Story" but re-reading this made my eyeballs roll right out of my head and my brain to ooze out my ears. I can't even get into how superficial, sexist, sterotypical, and insulting to the many women who brew and love beer because my blood pressure is already too high. In conclusion, I hate everything. Good day sir!