Anchor Steam Beer tap handle
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) tap handle
label: Description (Brief)
content: Brown tap handle topped with a metal anchor and yellow labels. "Anchor Steam" "Anchor Steam Beer" "Made in San Francisco since 1896"
label: Description
content: In 1965, Fritz Maytag III purchased the historic but struggling Steam Beer Brewing Company (later, Anchor Brewing Company) in San Francisco, California. 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: 2023.0113.17
label: accession number
content: 2023.0113
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0113.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tap handle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 3 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 8.89 cm