Abita’s Hard Root Beer Hits Shelves

Using the unique Abita Root Beer flavor that we've all loved for 20 years, Bayou Bootlegger Hard Root Beer will hit you with a 5.9% ABV.

We've all come to know and love Abita's products around these parts. From Purple Haze to Turbo Dog, Abita Amber.to, of course, Abita Root Beer. To give a comparison, they achieved a 5.9% ABV with Bootleggers Hard Root Beer, where as Abita Amber has a 4.5% ABV.

Bayou Bootlegger Hard Root Beer will hit shelves in New Orleans this week, and will spread to other areas in early 2016.

"Our hard root beer is a decidedly adult take on the old-fashioned Abita Root Beer we've been brewing and you've been loving for years, said David Blossman, president and CEO of Abita Brewing Company. "It only made sense for us to enhance our already famous root beer with this fun, new twist."

Bayou Bootlegger Hard Root Beer is the first in a line of hard sodas that the company will be pushing out in the near future.

Back in April of this year, Abita completed a three-year, $30 million expansion of it's facility, which more than doubled it's brewing capacity.