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Anchor Brewing Company

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Caffeine Buzz: Philz Coffee and Silverstone Coffee Open, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Shutters

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The Namu Gaji team let us know the opening of its Mission restaurant has been postponed to Apr. 11 due to equipment issues. Caffeine buzz: The latest Philz Coffee is readying to open. Noe Valley SF repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Number 36: Linden Street Brewery's Black Lager

    ​ SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​"The 'steam beer' style was born in the Bay Area," says Adam Lamoreaux, Linden Street Brewery's founder and brewmaster. His Burning Oak Black Lager is made in that style, which he calls an "Old California lager" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Whiskies of the World Is Sold Out, but Here's Events Where You Can Score a Taste

    ​The forecast may be full of dark, cold days and rain, but this weekend Whiskies of the World expo is the perfect shelter from the storm: three levels aboard the San Francisco Belle (Hornblower Cruises) with 30 distilleries and producers of grain spirits pouring a few hundred different bottles. Al ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 7, 2012

    Drink: Session Beers: When the Best Drink Isn't the Most Extreme

    ​The forecast may be full of dark, cold days and rain, but this weekend Whiskies of the World expo is the perfect shelter from the storm: three levels aboard the San Francisco Belle (Hornblower Cruises) with 30 distilleries and producers of grain spirits pouring a few hundred different bottles. Al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Your Holiday Beer Blind Taste Test: All Hail Het Anker!

    ​ Holiday beers are good for many things. They make office parties more bearable. They give your cheeks a radiant, celebratory glow. And most importantly, they warm the cockles of your liver (note to self: What are cockles, and why do they need to be warm?). For this installment of Tasting Bl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    This Saturday: Slow Food Crab Feed

    ​What: 5th Annual Slow Crabs Dinner Where: Women's Building When: Saturday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m. Cost: $60 Slow Food members, $65 general admission The rundown: Roll in the start of Dungeness Crabs eating season with the folks at Slow Food San Francisco. The feed will be cooked by California Culina ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Explore the Potrero Branch Library After Dark, Drinks & Snacks Included!

    What: Potrero Branch Library's Imbibe Where: Potrero Branch Library When: Fri., December 2, 7-10 p.m. Cost: Free to Friends of SFPL The rundown: Imbibe is the quarterly after-hours cocktail party highlighting the beauty and diversity of San Francisco's newly remodeled branch libraries. This tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    At The Bay Brewed, Rock Out With Your Craft Beer Out

    We know you like to rock. Perhaps you're reading this from your cubicle, and your colleagues have no idea there's an Iron Maiden t-shirt lurking underneath your sweater vest. You love live music, but every time you reach the front of the line at a concert concession stand, you're faced with overpric ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Cocktail Week Events for Monday, Sept. 19

    Marc Fiorito, GammaNine Photography​The bad news about Cocktail Week is that events are starting to sell out. The good news is twofold: tickets are still available for many, and more events are being added, so keep an eye out here for the latest. Tickets still available Bay Area Distillers P ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2011

    Still Building This City

    Marc Fiorito, GammaNine Photography​The bad news about Cocktail Week is that events are starting to sell out. The good news is twofold: tickets are still available for many, and more events are being added, so keep an eye out here for the latest. Tickets still available Bay Area Distillers P ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 9, 2011

    Drink 2011: Brewers Join Forces -- Beer Ensues

    Marc Fiorito, GammaNine Photography​The bad news about Cocktail Week is that events are starting to sell out. The good news is twofold: tickets are still available for many, and more events are being added, so keep an eye out here for the latest. Tickets still available Bay Area Distillers P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    The Best Barleywine? Our Panel Picks a Winner

    Jesse Friedman/Beer and NoshAmerican barleywine daddy Fritz Maytag, at the Anchor Brewery he once owned.​What began more than three decades ago as a small-batch specialty beer made by a local beer hero has grown thunderously into perhaps the most cult-acclaimed craft beer style in America: the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    In Chico, a Craft Beer Pioneer Turns 30

    Brian YaegerSierra Nevada is the nation's largest independent brewery.​Nov. 15, 1980: Twenty-six-year-old Ken Grossman brews his first commercial beer. Last night, Grossman briefly took the stage at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.'s 30th anniversary party in Chico where it all began. Thirty di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Is a Growler a Cheap Way to Drink? Depends on Where You Shop

    Noah Sussman/Flickr​Up in the Pacific Northwest, SFoodie had friends who'd keep a couple of the 64-ounce jugs in their trunk on road trips just in case they passed a brewpub. They'd fill the growlers up at the taps, then bring home beer to drink a few days later. Once we moved, we started hearing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Kauffman's Five: This Week in Bloggery

    My favorite five bites from SFoodie and beyond:Fritz Maytag.​1. I appreciated Brian Yaeger's thoughtful questioning ― motivated by a mixture of respect and betrayal ― of what might come of Fritz Maytag's sale of Anchor Brewing to the producers of Skyy Vodka.2. Considering that the last Undergr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Will the Sale of Anchor Mean the Death of Quality at S.F.'s Revolutionary Brand?

    Brian YaegerFritz Maytag in 2005.​Why, Fritz ― why did you sell Anchor Brewing? And does it mean the end of an era for craft brewing both in San Francisco and across the nation? Of the 4,000 breweries operating in America at the end of the 19th century, a little over 1,500 were back up and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    S.F.'s Iconic Anchor Brewery Sold to Marin Investment Company

    Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshFritz Maytag revived the Anchor Brewing Co., keeping operations in S.F.​Noah Galuten of our sister blog in L.A. is among a handful of sources reporting this afternoon that local craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing Co. has been sold to The Griffin Group, a Novato-based i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    A Photo-Stroll through the Very Jules Verne-like Anchor Brewery

    Jesse Friedman/Beer & Nosh​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Kegwalk: Just in time for a Friday when baseball's back, and chances are, if you walked along Townsend Street's scraggly dirt-margin of bushes and withered condoms earlier today, you'd find a homeless guy blissfully pissing in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Oakland's Month-Old Beer Revolution Inspired by SOMA's City Beer Store

    Push/FacebookFeel free to order in vegan soul food from the restaurant next door.​Napoleon said, "In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them." A man like Fritz Maytag, who resurrected S.F.'s Anchor Brewing in 1965, is the former. A man like ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 24, 2009

    Beer Is Good Food

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    May 8, 2009

    Wine, Beer, & Booze Events, May 8-16

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    May 11, 2005

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    November 19, 2003

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