Anchor Brewing Company

Where To Celebrate Session Beer Month in the Bay Area

Don't get us wrong, we love big, bold, "extreme" beers as much as the next beer geek. That being said, sometimes you just want to have a few beers with friends on a sunny afternoon without losing the ability to walk or speak English. For the last couple years, the pendulum has been swinging back in ... More >>

What to Drink at Cochon 555

We're not sure about you guys, but we're not the types of little piggies that "go wee wee wee all the way home." We're more the type of piggies who go out for Manhattans after work rather than head home. Heck, we'll even cannabalize our own kind, because pork is delicious. Folks already know that ... More >>

Butchers & Beers Celebrates Beer Week, America

Well, the Super Bowl is over, which means that we'll have to wait until July 4 for another holiday that celebrates the old-fashioned American values of red meat and cold beer... but wait! For Beer Week, Almanac is pairing with 4505 Meats to throw the second annual Butchers & Beers event, a shindig ... More >>

New Albion: Historic Local Ale Comes Back to Life

Beer of the Week: Boston Beer Company Revives Historic New Albion Ale

All right class, it's time for a history lesson. Can anybody tell me which brewery is acknowledged as the first modern microbrewery in the United States? If you answered New Albion Brewing Company, you get an A. Does somebody know where the brewery was located? Yes, right in our backyard in Sonoma! ... More >>

Anchor's Christmas Brew Has a Rich History

It's time for Anchor Brewing's Christmas ale again, and if you haven't tried this year's recipe yet, what are you waiting for? The recipe of the ale has changed every year since the brewery started making it in 1975, and this year's brew is rich, spicy, reminiscent of pine needles (in a pleasant way ... More >>

Bear in Heaven: Show Preview

The 6 Best Concerts in San Francisco This Week

6. Simian Mobile Disco @ Mezzanine, Saturday, Dec. 1 Ever since Jas Shaw and James Ford split off from indie-pop outfit Simian circa 2006 to form Simian Mobile Disco, a cheeky sensibility has always underpinned the duo's slinky electro. On 2009's Temporary Pleasure, SMD mocked rich-kid opulence with ... More >>

Beer and Music: The Bay Brewed Blends Some of the Best of Both

Since events that mix cool music with fancy things to put in your body (like food or booze) are increasingly going to become the norm in S.F. -- this being a trend we're somewhat conflicted about -- we at least hope they'll be really good. Good like new music fest the Bay Brewed (put on by the folks ... More >>

SF Cocktail Week 2012 Arrives -- Gird Your Livers!

Cocktail Week kicks off tonight and it promises to be quite a boozy weeklong celebration. Bartenders from around the country will share the spotlight with hometown favorites and locally made spirits. We'll be bringing you the latest updates throughout the week, with our picks for the best of each n ... More >>

Study Beer and Chocolate with a Local Expert

C'mon, pairing chocolate with red wine is soooo 2001. Enjoying chocolate with beer, on the other hand, offers a whole new world of pairing options. If there's one Bay Area local who is uniquely positioned to speak on the issue, it's Pete Slosberg. You may know him better as "Wicked Pete" of Pete's W ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Still Building This City

Drink 2011: Brewers Join Forces -- Beer Ensues

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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