Abita Brewing Company was founded in 1986 in Louisiana and produced 1,500 barrels its first year, growing so much that by 1994 it moved to a larger facility with a brew pub. It now brews over 151,000 barrels of beer and 9,100 barrels of root beer annually in its state-of-the-art brewery. NOLA Brewing was founded in 2008 in New Orleans by Kirk Coco and Peter Caddoo and produces local, high-quality lagers and ales at its brewery in the Irish Channel neighborhood.