Anchor Brewing

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Anchor Brewing Company

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founding 1896
Seat San Francisco United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Keith Greggor and Tony Foglio
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Website www.anchorbrewing.com

Anchor Brewing Company is an American manufacturer of alcoholic beverages , a brewery and a distillery in the district of Potrero Hill in San Francisco , California maintains. The products are exported to 49 countries worldwide, including Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

It is one of the last breweries to produce so-called steam beer. Steam Beer is a registered trademark of the Anchor Brewing Company. As an anchor distilling company , the company also produces gin and rye whiskey .

Anchor Brewing Company building in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco (2020)

history

In the mid-1860s, German immigrants Otto Schinkel and Ernst F. Baruth began selling beer to local restaurants and bars that they made in a San Francisco brewery on Pacific Avenue between Larkin Street and Hyde Street. In 1896 they founded Anchor Brewing . The brewery initially only sold so-called steam beer from the tap. It is believed that steam beer was fermented at higher temperatures and that the process dates back to the time of the gold rush .

In 1965 the Anchor Brewing Company was bought by its current owner, Frederick Louis Maytag III, as it was about to close. Maytag bought 51 percent of the company for a few thousand dollars and later bought the brewery entirely. In 1979 the brewery moved to its current building.

During the 1980s, Anchor Steam Beer became nationally known in the US and consumption rose dramatically from a few thousand crates of beer that were traditionally produced.

Brewhouse of the Anchor Brewery

In 1993 the company Anchor Distilling , a small distillery, opened in the same place as the brewery and began producing a single malt whiskey called Old Potrero , named after Potrero Hill in San Francisco, in whose district the distillery is located. Anchor was one of the first distilleries to bring about a revival of rye whiskey in the United States. Anchor produced these in Pot Still - at the time the only distillery in the USA that used them - and made from 100% rye.

Products

The Anchor Brewing Company currently (2014) produces 14 types of beer as:

  • Anchor IPA
  • Anchor Steam Beer
  • Anchor California warehouse
  • Anchor Liberty Ale
  • Anchor Porter
  • Anchor Summer
  • Anchor Old Foghorn Barleywine Style Ale
  • Anchor Small Beer
  • Anchor Breckle's Brown
  • Anchor season
  • Anchor Christmas Ale
  • Anchor Bigleaf Maple
  • Anchor Humming Ale
  • Anchor Bock Beer

In addition, limited special beers are brewed in the Zymaster series.

The beers are sold in a unique bottle. The low, bulbous bottle with a capacity of 0.355 l became the distinguishing mark of the Anchor Brewing brand.

In 1997 the distillery began making a gin called Junípero -  Spanish for juniper and a reference to Junípero Serra , an important figure in the history of San Francisco and California. Recently, the production of a genever-style gin with the name Genevive began with the ingredients grain, barley, rye and the same herbs as their Junípero ggin.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anchor Brewing Company - Company History . www.fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  2. ^ Bonnie Tsui: Rye Is Back, With Flavors of Americana , The New York Times December 22, 2001
  3. ↑ http://www.anchorbrewing.com/beer/beer_cooler
  4. ↑ http://www.anchorbrewing.com/beer/zymaster_series

Coordinates: 37 ° 45 ′ 49 ″  N , 122 ° 24 ′ 2 ″  W.