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07-13-2023, 12:26 PM
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Anchor Brewing Co. RIP
I am truly saddened by this.
Excellent product.
According to the video, Anchor had been struggling since 2016.
A high percentage of their sales had always come from (Northern CA) bars and taverns, and the Lockdowns were the straw that broke the camel's back.
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07-13-2023, 02:39 PM
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Horse Racing Connossieur
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Michigan
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Back in maybe the mid 60's Anchor Steam was struggling and potentially going out of business when Fritz Maytag bought them, looks like he does not own them anymore, but sad to see them go out of business.
I have always enjoyed Anchor Steam and would buy it when I would see it in stores around here, which was not that often.
Anchor Steam style beer uses a lager style yeast fermented at warmer ale style temperatures. The brewery also, at one time, used an open vat fermentation and the name of the beer came from that it would produce steam from the vats on the top of the brewery in San Francisco.
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07-13-2023, 04:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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Grew up in Marin County and in the 70’s and this was the first beer I stole from my dad.
They hung one for a real long time.
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07-13-2023, 06:03 PM
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Join Date: May 2020
Location: New Jersey
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Sad news as Anchor was one of my all-time favorite brewers.
Anchor Steam was absolutely delicious, one that came closest to those creamy tasty European beers of old. I enjoyed Anchor Porter immensely as well; the wheat and seasonal beers not so much.
Sorry that Fritz Maytag didn't come in and 'save' the brewery again, as he did in 1965.
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07-14-2023, 06:26 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Loved their Christmas ale. RIP Anchor Brewery
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07-14-2023, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
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the covid 'lockdowns' killed many companies and made a few very RICH.
sad to see 'science fraud' help kill a country
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09-12-2023, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: May 2020
Location: New Jersey
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There's some hope still ...
Quote:
Beer drinkers are throwing a lifeline to Anchor Brewing.
A collective of workers from the nation’s oldest craft brewery has raised more than $70,000 in a GoFundMe campaign. They plan to use it to buy the company back from its current owner Sapporo, which announced plans in July to shut the brewery down after 127 years of operation.
That’s more than $20,000 above the group’s goal and the campaign hit that total in less that five days, with one anonymous donor chipping in $2,500 to support their cause. Whether the group will succeed in its quest, though, is still up in the air.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ancho...153248883.html
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09-13-2023, 12:17 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
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BEER!
It's not just for breakfast anymore.
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