Welcome to the Backwater Brewery and the Backwater Brew Club!

Originally called "Swampwater Brewery" because of the Swampwater (Pecan Brown) Ale we brewed, Backwater Brewery was born of four important reasons:

• My brother-in-law's desire to brew,
• a lie that brewing would be cheap,
• my inability to leave stuff alone (adult A.D.D. gone right)
• and a not-so-wise lack of adult supervision on my wife's part.

Backwater Brewery is no longer a Sunday morning solo act. It recently became more of an extended family of home brewers where full flavors, not styles, are brewed by concensus. Our focus is mainly on all-grain, full-figured ales and good cigars. We're looking for voluptuous brews - you won't find any man-purse, waif-thin, supermodel beers here.

The beers and their names reflect my origins of central Lousiana, but with a brew-by-concensus attitude, new brew recipies like Antoinette's Express are becoming regulars on-tap.

I shot for flavors, colors and aromas that I thought I would enjoy. Some brews came from a lengthy process of evolution, while others were pleasurable mistakes. I've never looked to make exact knock-offs of other beer, rather, my aim was to always create appealing brews which I knew would impress me. Because... it really is all about me.   :)

Beer which we currently brew (all-grain):
• Bayou Blonde
  (currently in three different concepts: Original, Dumb Blonde and Nouveau Blonde)
• California Creole
  American Pale Ale (mashed with toasted almonds)
• Swampwater Ale
  Nut Brown Ale (mashed with roasted pecans)
• Antoinette's Express
  Porter (fine Italian espresso and chocolate)
• Pirogue Stout
  Sour-mash Dry Stout
• River Road
  Oak-barrel Stout (aged using red oak strips stolen during an addition to the bar at our local pub and real vanilla beans (it blocks out the sun))
• 90min IPA
  All-grain IPA (hopped with nothing but Cascade hops)
• Panty Dropper
  Golden Ale fermented on a generous bed of dried cherries (pretty much it is what it is: cherry-flavored alcohol with a hint of beer in there somewhere (this one is for the women-folk and "men" with female tendencies))