“I love a great stout or porter,” Jacob Landry, founder and president of Urban South Brewery says, “but a beer must be tailored to climate and place. It’s so freaking hot here, a New Orleans beer should be a beer made to satisfy that.”

Chatting while seated at a wooden picnic table inside the nascent brewery’s expansive Tchoupitoulas Street facility, Landry discusses the “hyper­local” trend of recent years. This has spurred the success of home­grown ventures such as Urban South Brewing, Se...