The historic San Francisco brewery has closed after 127 years.
senior writer at Grub Street who covers the people who work and eat in New York City’s restaurantsIt just ran out of steam. After 127 years of beers in San Francisco, Anchor Steam Brewery has shutIn June, journalist Dave Infante rthat the brewery was no longer going to produce its popular Christmas Ale or distribute its beers outside of California. Just yesterday, it was also reported that Anchor was possibly going to be sold by its parent company, Sapporo, which had bought the brewery in 2017.
Anchor is a historic brand. It is referred to as the first craft brewery and survived the shift in this country toward large-scale production macro-lagers. While now you can’t find a midsize American without at least a handful of micro-breweries producing IPAs infused with black currants and cocoa nibs, this wasn’t the case all that long ago. When Fritz Maytag bought the company in 1969, hethe use of food coloring and started buying malted grains.
The reasons for Anchor’s demise seem various. Employees who spoke with Infante about the company’s uncertain future painted a tense picture, saying Sapporo has held off on plant maintenance and was contentious with the union . Sales data also shows that Americans are drinking less beer, a downward trend that has been happening for several years and has put the
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