'It goes to show that you can't ever take anything for granted,' Jim Woods, the founder and CEO of San Francisco's Woods Beer & Wine Co.
Anchor Brewing’s spirit is alive and well in San Francisco, even as the 127-year-old brewery begins to liquidate its business and shutter its popular Potrero taproom.
Anchor’s closure is the latest in a string of prominent shutterings, and it comes as San Francisco struggles to find its footing in a post-pandemic world. Its abrupt closure also marks the end of a uniquely San Francisco brewery that set the standard for the kind of beers we drink today. Light lagers dominated the U.S. beer market at the time of Maytag’s purchase, Marino said, but Anchor’s Liberty Ale is credited with revolutionizing the India pale ale, and its porter was the first brewed in the U.S. since Prohibition.
But faced with expensive earthquake retrofitting, Pier 48’s rehabilitation hit the back burner in 2017. The Giants said the brewery would “look at its overall priorities” once Pier 48’s seismic upgrades were complete, but the move never came to fruition. That same year, Anchor opened its first public taproom, less than 100 feet from its brewery. But another 2017 move proved far more consequential for its eventual fate: Japanese beer giant Sapporo purchased Anchor that year. The sale ended Anchor’s membership in the Bay Area Brewers Guild and the California Craft Brewers Association, Marino and Woods said.
Still, breweries in The City face other headwinds. Local breweries encounter higher cost structures than many competitors, Marino and Woods said, especially those based outside urban centers.
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