Today, the series continues with the founding of Jax Beer. THEN: Cotton might have been king in antebellum New Orleans, but it ceded at least part of its crown in the post-Civil War years to beer ...

No matter what you call it, Jax Brewing Co. may have come up with the idea of selling more than one beer at a time and packaging it in standard sizes, albeit plastic rings had yet to be invented.

The century-old New Orleans beer brand, brewed at Jax Brewery in the French Quarter until 1974, has returned to taps and shelves courtesy of Port Orleans Brewing Co., which began distributing its ...