Jax is back.
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 version of the beer in Louisiana last year.
It’s a decidedly small-scale renaissance, but it’s one that puts a smile on the faces of New Orleanians of a certain age who may remember Jax’s witty animated TV commercials from the 1960s or the beer’s shoutout in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.”…