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Jax Beer was created in 1891. The brewery was the largest independent business of its kind in the south and the tenth largest single-plant brewery in the country. Fifty years ago, New Orleans was proclaimed the "brewing capital of the South." And before Prohibition, there were about a dozen breweries all competing for the beer drinker's dollar in our city; the choices were intoxicating. Jax closed around 1973. Today the building still stands and features shops and restaurants near the French Quarter.