For three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans' last surviving brewery was buried under eight feet of water. When the flood had gone, little was left of the 100-year-old Dixie Brewing Company, which made the beer that many a Southern gentleman cut his teeth on. (Author Walker Percy immortalized it in his ode to Southern culture, Why I Live Where I Live.) Only three of the brewery's 40 original cypress-wood tanks survived, but with those and some new state-of-the-art equipment, owners Joe and Kendra Bruno hope to have it up and running again within a year's time. In the interim, a limited quantity of Dixie's is being produced at Wisconsin's oldest brewery, and some of it is now making its way to select East Coast bars. "Dixie is more than just a beer," Kendra says. "It's part of our heritage."