Anchor Brewing Company hop sample box
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) hop sample box
label: Description (Brief)
content: Anchor Brewing Company hop sample box with 8 jars of different hop samples and one paper insert. Three different stickers on the lid "Anchor Steam Beer" "Anchor IPA" "California Lager". Inside the box the eight different hop samples include: "Northern Brewer" "Apollo" "Bravo" "Cascade" "Cluster" "Citra" "Nelson Sauvin" and "EXP 451"
label: Description
content: This box of hop samples enabled members of the public at beer festivals or other public events to see and smell different hop varietals used by San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company in its beers. The samples in this box exemplify the range of hops used by this brewery throughout its long history. Northern Brewer, Cluster, and Cascade hops, grown in the United Kingdom, California, and Oregon, respectively, were among the earliest hop varietals used by former owner Fritz Maytag III and his brewers. Nelson Sauvin, Bravo, Apollo, Exp. 431, and Citra were developed and released in 2000 and later. As the number of breweries in the United States exploded in the early 2000s, brewers and customers sought out new hop varietals that could add unique and diverse flavor profiles to beer: grapefruit, peach, gooseberries, citrus, and more.
label: Description
content: In 1965, Fritz Maytag III purchased the historic but struggling Steam Beer Brewing Company (later, Anchor Brewing Company). With his entrepreneurial roots and zeal for science, Maytag revitalized the brewery. He perfected the brewery’s recipe for steam beer, an effervescent style that had originated in nineteenth-century San Francisco, and brewed European styles—porter, barleywine, pale ale—then unfamiliar to many Americans. As a self-taught brewer and savvy entrepreneur, Maytag inspired many who dreamed of opening their own small breweries. Historians consider Anchor Brewing Company to have been the first post-Prohibition American microbrewery. Microbreweries, brewpubs, and “craft” breweries proliferated throughout the nation in the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. In August 2023, Sapporo USA liquidated Anchor Brewing Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anchor Brewing Company through Mike Minami
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0113.36
label: accession number
content: 2023.0113
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0113.36
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, hop sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 18.415 cm x 8.89 cm