Small contribution to the Arab Spring of Nations ...
Today, Louisiana is one of the top producing states of the U.S. sugar cane: the venerable American Sugarcane League (est. 1922) informs us in one of its platelets that 20% of U.S. sugar cane is produced here. The industry generates 1.7 billion dollars in annual revenue and employs over 27,000 people. However, the subtropical climate is not ideal for cane and she resists his Central American counterparts at the cost of protectionism and a fanatical policy of subsidies to large scale.
The Chalmette refinery sugar is still the largest in North America located on a bend of the Mississippi, it looks lazy flowing river for over a century .
However, we can say without too much advance than beer Local Louisiana plays the same role as the local beer from the North: it is an omnipresent point of reference. Each bar is the Abita draft (pressure) and can be ordered in a bottle in each restaurant. The most common version is the redhead Amber , but there are also the wonderful Preservation Pale Ale, Golden, the Jacomo, the Purple Haze and brown Tuborg. Abita also produces five seasonal beers: Bock, Red, Wheat, Fall Fest and Christmas, and three beers scented Strawberry, Pecan, Satsuma. The light version is drunk at game parties. All beers are brewed Abita Springs, just north of Lake Pontchartrain.
Then of course there are many more different beers in the north, but still it was worth talking about as the Abita Amber is common in our tropical latitudes. That said, the Red Stripe Jamaica remains one of the best blondes on sale in the area ...