Great Raft Brewing
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Great Raft Brewing is a Shreveport craft brewery and tasting room bringing the craft brewing tradition to Northern Louisiana. Drink Real Beer! Great Raft Brewing is a Shreveport, Louisiana based craft brewery dedicated to making creative, authentic beer and helping to build a great beer culture within communities it serves. Co-founders Andrew and Lindsay Nations are Shreveport natives with a passion for beer. Born from their desire to bring exciting, flavorful, fresh craft beer to their hometown, Great Raft Brewing is bringing the craft brewing tradition to Northern Louisiana.
Great Raft Brewing was founded on the principle of brewing what we call “Real Beer.” Real Beer is brewed with creativity, passion, and authenticity. Our beer is brewed with creativity that pushes the boundaries of style, a passion for greatness, and authentic, quality ingredients. Drink Real Beer. You deserve it.
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facebook.comCONTEST UPDATE. There were so many great #318beer pics last week that we couldn't pick just 1. Congrats to Jeff Heun (@heunjeff on Instagram) and Jonathan Langford on winning! Please email info@greatraftbrewing.com. For a chance to win a custom 318 Golden Ale ice chest full of Great Raft beer, show us how you celebrate the 318! Upload a picture below of you enjoying a 318 Golden Ale in the 318 area code. The Great Raft team will pick our favorite on Fri, 3/30 to win a limited edition 318 ice chest full of 318 Golden Ale. #drinklikeyoulivehere #drink318 #318beer
All My Tomorrows hoppy saison returns tomorrow (Friday, 3/23). This beer will always hold a special place in our hearts, as it was our very first seasonal beer back in the spring of 2014. This American-influenced hoppy saison is brewed on the notion that stylistically perfect beers have their place, but can never come at the expense of creativity. This is the first release of this beer since we moved it to our Belgian program. You'll notice the new packaging (500 ml bottles) and the bottle conditioned saison, creating the sharp mouthfeel Belgian ales are known for. Bottles and draft will available in the tasting room tomorrow. 500ml bottles are $8. Come celebrate Spring and the return of All My Tomorrows.
This is one of our favorite events of the year! Don't miss this opportunity to try 10 unique Great Raft beers, only available on site at this event! This event will feature 10 pins of real ale goodness. Here are a few of the casks we're working on for this event: - Grace & Grit Double IPA, lemondrop + amarillo dry hopped - Commotion, dry hopped with El Dorado - Commotion with Grapefruit - Peanut Butter Jelly Reasonably Corrupt with Boysenberry - At Arm's Length with Coconut - 318 Golden Ale with Cucumber Stay tuned for more details! One ticket is $25 and includes: - Early access to GRB before we open to public - 11 am entry - 10 tickets for 5 oz pours from the pins - Brief cask education overview from Andrew Nations (founder) and Kevin Brown (brewer) - Limited edition "Crush the Pin" taster glass Pints will not be made available until 2 PM. Additional sample pours may be purchased between 11-2 by event ticket holders only. At 2 PM, the beer will be made available to anyone at the brewery. We'll announce a complete list of the pins that will be available as we get closer to the event. Additional sample pours (5 oz) will be $2 Pints (12 oz) will be $5 Buy tickets in advance and save. **A cask is a vessel that contains unpasteurized beer which is naturally carbonated through the use of active yeast inside the cask. Casks come in multiple sizes - a pin contains approx 5 gallons.
Crawfish season is officially underway! One ticket include 3 lbs of crawfish, corn and potatoes prepared by LarryP's Boiling Pot. If you think you'll eat more than 3 lbs, you can buy additional tickets based on how much you want. Enjoy live music from 2-8 PM from Lee Mathis Music and local sweet boy Jesse Rawlinson. Boil starts at 1 PM and runs until 6 PM. Buy in advance for $18 (includes your first beer) Buy at the door for $20 (doesn't include your first beer)
Let the March Madness begin! Great Raft Brewing is included in Garden & Gun Magazine's Southern Brewery Bracket, and we're calling on you for support! Please click the link below and vote for your favorite Southern breweries (especially our fellow Louisiana friends). We're included in match-up #11. Voting for Round 1 is live through Sunday night (you can vote once per device every 6 hours). Tag other Great Raft fans below to help push us through to the next round. Cheers, and THANK YOU!
At Arm's Length India Pale Lager - April 2018
We're hiring for beertenders and cellar/operations positions! Send your resume to info@greatraftbrewing.com.
Hey New Orleans, let's party Friday! We are incredibly excited to be invited back to Nuit Belge this year to partner with our friends a Cochon Butcher. Friday night we are pouring our 100% Foeder fermented sour aged on blackberries along side the fine folks at Jester King Brewery, Creature Comforts, Blackberry Farm and NOLA Brewing. Come hang! https://www.nuitbelge.com/tickets/
Have you tried the new 318 Golden Ale made with Hummer & Son Honey? Now available across Shreveport / Bossier, and hitting all of the 318 area code in the coming weeks.
This here 12 pack of 318 Golden Ale is straight off the canning line and making its debut today. Come see us in tasting room and be the first to try our new flagship beer. Be on the lookout as 318 is hitting shelves and taps around Shreveport / Bossier today and soon across all of North Louisiana.
Tomorrow is too far away. Dropping Grace and Grit Double IPA a day early. We out here doing it y'all. #nolimitsouljah #doubleipa #getsome
Less than 1 week until our new 318 Golden Ale can be in your hands! Visit 318beer.com to find out where you can try our new flagship, available only in the 3-1-8! #drink318 #318beer
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