Anchor Brewing Co. Calendar
date: label: date made
content: 2022 - 2023
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) calendar
label: Description (Brief)
content: Blue circle with white writing and a white anchor. "Since 1896" "Anchor Brewing Co." Calendar shows July 2023 with the 31st circled. Marking the last day of operation for Anchor Brewing Company.
label: Description
content: This small calendar was displayed on a fermenter in the cellar of San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company in July 2023. The date of July 31, 2023, circled in pencil, indicated the business’s last day in operation, prior to its liquidation on August 1, 2023.
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: 2023.0113.16
label: accession number
content: 2023.0113
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0113.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calendar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 3 in; 11.43 cm x 7.62 cm