Introducing Emeril Lagasse Foundation's new outdoor charity food and music celebration - Boudin & Beer.
Emeril Lagasse, along with friends Mario Batali and Donald Link, share their love of the pig at a nighttime celebration of food, music and fun. Featuring 20 of the region's top chefs, this night is all about boudin, artisan sausages and bold craft brews from Abita Beer. Adding to the real 'n rustic food and beverage lineup, live musical entertainment by New Orleans & Cajun artists and fun attractions will keep you feasting and festing late in the historic Warehouse District.
Enjoy rustic fare created by some of New Orleans' and the region's top chefs who will be cooking up their signature take on boudin and artisanal sausages.
Emeril's Restaurants
Otto Enoteca Pizzeria
Cochon and Herbsaint
Crescent Pie & Sausage Co.
Brigtsen's, Charlie's Seafood, NOCCA Chef-in-Residence
Restaurant Patois, Tru Burger
City Grocery
NOCCA Culinary Chair
Joel Catering, Sucre, Grand Isle Restaurant
Grand Isle Restaurant
A Mano, Rio Mar, La Boca, Ancora, High Hat
Sucre
NOLA Restaurant
Delmonico
Commander's Palace
Mr. B's Bistro
Palace Café, Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse & Bourbon House
Middendorf's Seafood Restaurant and The Foundry
La Birreria at Eataly
K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen
Domenica
Giardina's
Bayona, Mondo
Cochon
MiLa
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
Gautreau's
Presenting sponsor Abita Beer will be pouring an array of their local craft brews.
Amber is a Munich style lager brewed with crystal malt and Perle hops. It has a smooth, malty, slightly caramel flavor and a rich amber color. Abita Amber was the first beer offered by the brewery and continues to be our leading seller. Amber is Abita's most versatile beer for pairing with food. It has been voted "best beer" in numerous New Orleans reader polls and is used frequently in recipes of great Louisiana chefs.
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Christmas Ale (November - December) rounds out our calendar. Generally, this beer is a dark ale, however, the recipe changes each year, offering a unique product crafted with special care. Enjoy your holidays with Abita Christmas Ale. The spicy character is excellent with traditional holiday foods such as gingerbread or spiced nuts. Try some Blue cheese or a creamy Camembert with a Christmas Ale.
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Light is uniquely hand-crafted using 100% all natural ingredients: malted barley, the finest hops, German lager yeast and pristine Abita Springs water. The result is the smoothest, most flavorful light beer you will ever taste. Great with almost anything, it's an excellent choice for lighter foods and salads too. Try Abita Light with a sharp Cheddar Cheese.
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Jockamo is named for the tribes of dancing, singing, chanting "Mardi Gras Indians" who have marched in New Orleans for over 250 years. When you hear the drums, join in the song..."Iko! Iko! Jockamo fe na ne".
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Purple Haze is a crisp, American style wheat beer with raspberry puree added after filtration. Therefore, you may see raspberry pulp in the beer. The raspberries provide the lager with a subtle purple coloration and haze, a fruity aroma, and a tartly sweet taste.
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Turbodog is a dark brown ale brewed with Willamette hops and a combination of pale, crystal and chocolate malts. This combination gives Turbodog its rich body and color and a sweet chocolate toffee-like flavor. Turbodog began as a specialty ale but has gained a huge loyal following and has become one of our flagship brews.
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Andygator, a creature of the swamp, is a unique high-gravity brew made with pale malt, German lager yeast, and German Perle hops. Unlike other high-gravity brews, Andygator is fermented to a dry finish with a slightly sweet flavor and subtle fruit aroma. Reaching an alcohol strength of 8% by volume, it is a Helles Dopplebock.
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Restoration Pale Ale is made with Pale, Lager, Crystal and Cara Pils malted barley. It is liberally hopped and dry hopped with American Cascade and fermented with California Ale yeast. The end result is a brilliant gold ale with a rich body, mild bitterness and a snappy fresh citrus hop flavor and aroma.
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Abbey Ale honors the ancient tradition of monks who perfected the art of brewing beer to support the monastery and their "liquid bread". We offer up our support and thank them with a 25¢ donation to St. Joseph's Abbey with every bottle sold of this heavenly brew. Abita Abbey Ale is a malty brew, top-fermented and bottle aged to rapturous perfection
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This Abita Beer is a message in a bottle...a distress signal for the troubled waters of our Gulf Coast. For every bottle sold Abita will donate 75¢ to the rescue and restoration of the environment, industry and individuals fighting to survive this disastrous oil spill. This unfiltered Weizen Pils is made with Pilsner and Wheat malts. It has a brilliant gold color, a sweet malt flavor, and a pleasant bitterness and aroma.
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Turbodog is the inspiration for this robust dark ale. It is brewed with generous amounts of pale, caramel, and chocolate malts and Willamette hops. Whole natural vanilla beans are added during the aging process. This combination provides a rich body and color with chocolate, vanilla and toffee-like flavor.
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Our Imperial Oyster Stout is made with pale, caramel, roasted, and chocolate malts. The flavors of toffee and chocolate are prevalent but not overpowering. Since the beer gets so much flavor from the malts there is not a lot of hop flavor. Freshly shucked LA oysters were added to the boil. The salt from the oysters gives the beer a more intense aroma and mouthfeel.
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Special cask edition made exclusively for Boudin & Beer
Special cask edition made exclusively for Boudin & Beer
Two step, swing your partner, or just clap along to the music lineup from some of Louisiana's finest local musicians.
Growing up in Pilette, LA, near Lafayette, Louis and Andre Michot were immersed in Cajun music as their father and uncles were in a touring Cajun band. Andre and Louis picked up the torch as the next generation of their musical heritage. With Paul Etheridge's drumming and Cavan Carruth's rhythm guitar, the band now plays its "deep swamp beat" around Acadiana and all over the United States.
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With a voice that conjures Patsy Cline, a Johnny Cash attitude and a reverence for Merle Haggard and Bob Wills, singer Vanessa Niemann pulls from the best of country, rockabilly and western swing classics. With the addition of a smattering of songs bordering on the obscure and a few originals thrown in for good measure, she and her band have managed to create a show that is pure American roots.
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The Tin Men combine the unlikely instrumentation of sousaphone, washboard, and guitar to form one of New Orleans' most original and entertaining groups. Respected performers on their individual instruments, percussionist/vocalist Washboard Chaz, sousaphonist Matt Perrine and guitarist/vocalist explore a truly eclectic array of North American Pop music from jug band to swing jazz to New Orleans R&B to Motown to Easy Listening to Heavy Metal and beyond. Through it all they put their own zany spin on the material and make it their own. They have been described as
"One of the most interesting bands to emerge from New Orleans in years" - Adam Cohen, Offbeat MagazineView website »
Thanks to all our generous sponsors for making the first annual Boudin & Beer possible.