The wine, beer and booze you’ll find at the Fair Grounds.
At some point out at Jazz Fest, you’re going to get thirsty. And you might want to have some booze. Here is the rundown of all the alcoholic drinks you’ll find at the New Orleans Jazz and Festival presented by Shell.
BEER TENTS
The beer tents around the Fair Grounds, all staffed by volunteers, are your main source for ice cold beer in a can (also soda and water).
The tents stock 16-ounce cans of Miller Lite, Coors Lite and Coors Banquet ($7). Premium 16-ounce cans are Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy, Red’s Strawberry Ale, Blue Moon and Terrapin’s Recreational Ale ($8). New this year is the Mexican sipper Sol ($7 for a 12-ounce can). Old Milwaukee non-alcoholic beer is also available ($6).
WINE BOOTHS
Do you prefer wine to beer? Wine tents around the Fair Ground stock pinot grigio ($7), merlot ($7), sparkling brut ($9) and sparkling brut rose ($9).
Pro tip: Pour your sparkling wine over a mango freeze from WWOZ.
MORE WINE
The CD tent also a has bar, with wines by the glass ($8) or in a one-liter carafes ($41): pinot grigio, rose and pinot noir. Prosecco and mimosas (both $9 each) are also available here.
BLOODY MARYS AND DAIQUIRIS
New Orleans Original Daiquiris have five booths with Bloody Marys ($9) along with Margarita, Rum Punch and Pina Colada frozen daiquiris ($7 for 12 ounces, $9 for 16 ounces).
Look for them to left of both the Acura stage and the Gentilly stage, by the Blues tent, in the outfield behind the Acura stage and inside the Grandstand.
BEER ON TAP
Do you prefer draft beer? You’ll find it inside the Grandstand and at two tents outside the Blues Tent. One bar inside the Grandstands has Budweiser, if Miller Lite is not your favorite macrobrew. Here you’ll also find Pilsner Urquell.
CRAFT BEER (sort of)
Looking for a fancier beer? One of those stands outside the Blues Tent has Blue Moon, the Coors version of a witbier, and hoppy Terrapin Hi-5 IPA, from the Georgia brewery now owned by MillerCoors.
Louisiana today has more than 30 craft breweries. But out at Jazz Fest, you’ll find only one Louisiana beer: Abita Amber at the other draft beer tent outside the Blues Tent.
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