Anchor Brewing Company
Anchor Brewing Company is an American manufacturer of alcoholic beverages, which operates a brewery and distillery in the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, California. The products are exported worldwide in 49 countries, including Germany and Switzerland.
She is one of the last breweries produced the so-called Steam Beer. Steam Beer is a trademark of Anchor Brewing Company.
History
1860-1960
The mid- 1860s began the German immigrant Otto Schinkel and Ernst F. Baruth, beer at a handful of local restaurants and bars to sell, which they produced in a brewery plant in San Francisco in the Pacific Avenue between Larkin Street and Hyde Street. In 1896 she founded the company Anchor Brewing. The brewery sold initially only known as Steam Beer from the dispenser. It is thought that Steam Beer was fermented at higher temperatures and that the process from the time of the gold rush comes.
1960 to today
In 1965, the current Anchor Brewing Company from its owner, Frederick Louis Maytag III was. Purchased, to protect them from closing. Maytag acquired 51 percent of the company for a few thousand dollars and bought the brewery later entirely. 1979 moved to the brewery in their current building.
During the 1980 Anchor Steam Beer has been known in the U.S. national and the consumption increased from a few thousand cases of beer that were traditionally produced dramatically.
1993 opened the company Anchor Distilling, a small distillery, the same location as the brewery and began production of a single-malt whiskeys named Old Potrero, named after the Potrero Hill in San Francisco, in whose district the distillery is located.
Products
The Anchor Brewing Company introduces eight beers as core products here, and several changing specialty beers.
- Anchor Steam
- Liberty Ale
- Anchor Porter
- Anchor Summer
- Old Foghorn Barleywine Style Ale
- Anchor Small Beer
- Christmas Ale
In 1997 the distillery to produce a gin began with the name Junípero - Spanish for juniper and a reference to Junípero Serra, an important figure in the history of San Francisco and California. Recently the production of gin began after Genever - style with the name Genevive with the ingredients corn, barley, rye, and the same herbs as you Junípero - Ggin.