Anchor Steam Beer Bottle
date: label: date made
content: 1971
name: label: maker
content: Anchor Brewing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) beer bottle
label: Description (Brief)
content: Brown bottle with blue cap and yellow label around the neck and center. "Anchor Steam Beer" "Made in San Francisco since 1896". Label on bottom "1st Bottling 1971".
label: Description
content: This bottle comes from the first bottling of Anchor Steam Beer at San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company, on April 23, 1971. On that day, Anchor brewers bottled two hundred cases of Anchor Steam Beer, at a pace of sixty bottles per minute. The brewery sold cases of bottled Anchor Steam Beer to customers for a retail price of $9.84.
label: Description
content: In 1965, Fritz Maytag III had 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
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
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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: 2023.0113.07
label: accession number
content: 2023.0113
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0113.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle, beer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 6.35 cm